Hi again, :-))
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the origin of Bootsplash that was included in FreeDOS
> 1.0? I'm going through the software list, making sure everything is in
> order before Bernd makes the next 1.1-test release, and realized that
> Bootsplash was included in 1.0 without source code.
>
> There aren't any doc files with bsplashx.zip (included in FreeDOS 1.0)
> so I can't find the original web site with source code. If I cannot
> locate the source code for this program, I will remove it from the
> software list, and delete it from the 1.0 "pkgs" directory on ibiblio.
I think you already asked about this, and a quick search of my old
e-mails proves me right! But it was one and a half years ago, long
enough to forget! ;-)
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Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:06 AM
subject Re: Updated FreeDOS software list
I seem to remember a similar thing being open-sourced for FreeDOS, but
I can't remember if this was it or not. And of course I can't find the
link (bah, Google is overrated, Bing didn't help either). :-/
If you look inside bsplashx.zip, its DEPENDS.TXT file says "blckout",
which is blckoutx.zip and blckouts.zip, respectively. However, only
two of the three utils in that are open sourced (although I'd imagine
gif2raw is fairly trivial to write anyways).
Seems the only page for Blackout is here:
http://homepages.ipact.nl/~lokhorst/dos.html
But "banner" is by J.P. Morris (and presumably gif2raw also). However,
his Tripod page is long gone, and even WayBack doesn't have it (the
three links they do have don't work, so ...).
Actually, I don't think bsplashx.zip *ever had* source code (call it
"N/A", I suppose):
======================================
Archive: bsplashx.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
0 05/19/2006 22:09 bin/
888 07/19/2005 03:06 bin/banner1.com
887 07/19/2005 03:07 bin/banner2.com
2390 09/04/2006 13:16 bsplash.bat
0 05/19/2006 20:14 packages/
0 07/05/2006 01:59 packages/bsplashx/
8 05/19/2006 22:10 packages/bsplashx/depends.txt
38 06/03/2006 11:12 packages/bsplashx/install.bat
50 05/19/2006 22:10 packages/bsplashx/remove.bat
0 05/19/2006 22:01 splashes/
64768 07/20/2005 13:07 splashes/device.raw
64768 07/20/2005 13:07 splashes/device2.raw
64768 07/20/2005 13:08 splashes/device3.raw
64768 07/28/2005 14:16 splashes/device4.raw
64768 07/20/2005 13:08 splashes/shell.raw
64768 07/20/2005 13:09 splashes/shell2.raw
64768 07/20/2005 13:09 splashes/shell3.raw
64768 07/28/2005 14:16 splashes/shell4.raw
--------- -------
522405 18 files
======================================
It's basically some .BATs, a .TXT, some .RAW images (of what?), and
two (barely modified) "banner" versions from Blackout. (I assume J.P.
Morris is the "author" here.)
It seems that banner.com has a hardcoded filename "c:\openinit.raw"
where banner1.com has "c:\device.raw" and banner2.com has
"c:\shell.raw". They look (almost) identical otherwise, so he probably
just used a different assembler on the latter two than the first one
(e.g. TASM instead of MASM or whatever). And just to look even closer
to satisfy your purist mind, Jim, I used ndisasm. Okay, seems that the
only difference is due to a "jmp" that was "short" in the original but
not in the offspring banner[12].com files (which slightly adjusted
some offsets by one byte).
So bsplashx.zip is fine, I suppose. It's only blckout[xs].zip that
lacks sources for Gif2Raw. If we could find J.P. Morris (unlikely)
.... Though it might be easier just to have someone (Eric? heh) whip
up a quick replacement version (although there are probably some image
editors, even for DOS, that do it for you, I just can't think of any
offhand since I don't do lots of image stuff).
EDIT: Okay, I grabbed Iguana's old GFV20.ARJ to view the raw files.
Seems they are as follows:
device.raw - "FreeDOS ... cool and fresh ... loading devices" (bunch
of Blinky fish)
device2.raw - "FreeDOS C:\ ... loading devices" (raindrops)
device3.raw - Tux and Blinky sitting at table with computer next to
them ("loading devices")
device4.raw - big fish outline "FreeDOS ... loading devices" (on
mandelbrot background??)
shell.raw - same image as device.raw ("cool and fresh") except says
"Loading the shell"
shell2.raw - same as device2.raw (raindrops) except "Loading Shell"
shell3.raw - same as device3.raw (Tux + Blinky) except "Loading the Shell"
shell4.raw - same as device4.raw (fish outline) except "Loading the Shell"
openinit.raw - says "Caldera OpenDOS" (which Blackout was originally
written for, apparently)
I think all of those (except last, obviously) are standard FreeDOS
logo / banners / images. So they should be kosher.
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