Re: Displaying ascii art at during Windows bootup
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
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· 18 Apr 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:37:27 +0100, David Palmer posted:
| (This is aimed users with some experience of ms-dos).
|
|You can seriously mess up your computer if you don't know what you're doing.
|Anything you do is at your own risk.
|
|If you're using Windows 95/98 you probably have noticed that when your computer
|boots there's a text mode screen before the Windows splash screen displays. It
|is possible to display ascii art at this stage without much effort.
|
|Simply select Start, Run, type sysedit, click OK. Just paste your pictures at
|the end of autoexec.bat and prefix each line with ECHO like my example below
|between the dotted lines (not the dotted lines). Blank lines need the dot after
|"ECHO"
|
|Not all characters are allowed as some have special meaning in ms-dos (in this
|example I had to replace "|" with "I"). After the clear screen command (cls)
|you have 25 lines, 80 characters wide.
|
'-----------------------------------------------
To save replacing the characters, why not simply save the art to a text file
and then:
@echo off
cls
type c:\bootup.txt
Obviously, replacing that filename with where the file actually is. If you
have ANSI.SYS loaded, you could also start that file with ESC[2J to clear
the screen (where ESC is the ASCII Character 27), or embed some nice colour
codes ESC[?m where ? is a colour code. You can find more on ANSI.SYS in the
MS-DOS Help file, which can be found on a Windows95 CD in \OTHER\OLDMSDOS.
Or, you could use something like TheDraw to colour in the ASCII art and
write out an ANSI file for you... you could even do some ASCIImation this
way :)
Kind Regards,
-Martin
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