Short: The best boot-time picture displayer! Author: calkowsk@us.edu.pl (Grzegorz Calkowski) Uploader: calkowsk@us.edu.pl Type: util/boot Replaces: util/boot/SysPic210.lha SysPic 2.11 (...) If you think that black screen during boot time is boring and you want make the boot look more professional (or even fancy) it is definitely program for you. I know there are other similar programs - but SysPic's features make it absolutely the BEST! (IMHO :) Features - SysPic o is small & fast o shows IFF-ILBM pictures of any size and resolution o supports AGA modes (also HAM8) o centers picture both horizontally & *vertically* o forces Workbench to open behind the displayed picture so it can be closed after whole Workbench initialization o blanks the pointer sprite so you won't see it when the Workbench screen activates (it would look annoying) o has a nice random number generator o detaches from shell in an intelligent way (i.e after loading the picture) o !!!COOL-> sets overscan prefs before IPrefs will do it. <-COOL!!! (So SysPic can be put just after SetPatch in startup-sequence) o supports BeetLogin (closes it's 'fake' screen) o is 100% legal o has been tested with Enforcer, Mungwall & MemWatch =============================================================================== History ------- v1.00ß (22.07.95) o First BETA release. v1.50 (25.08.95) o not "historized" and not released v2.00 (30.08.95) ** not released to public o Now SysPic automatically detaches from current Shell process. It does it in intelligent way, i.e exits after the picture is loaded & displayed. o Added random generator. New options: RANDMIN, RANDMAX, DIGITS. o Added feature of setting overscan prefs before IPrefs will do that! (New option: SETOSCN). It's a hack! See Bugs. o Sprite blanking works better but it is still unreliable. o Added shortcut for BESTFIT - BF. v2.01 (05.09.95) ** not released to public o Improved sprite blanking. A little, in fact :-). See Bugs. v2.02 (27.09.95) o Added support for my other utility - BeetLogin. Automatically closes 'fake' screen leftover by it. o In some cases SysPic didn't display error messages (ie "Not IFF file"). Fixed. o Rendezvous port priority set to a high value to improve ClosePic's performance. o Documentation updated. o Finally released... (and probably the final release... :-) v2.03 (27.11.95) o Now SysPic's screen is public screen. (Requested by Stefano Peruzzi). o For the same reason 'KEEPPTR' switch added. If specified the pointer won't be blanked. o SysPic always lost 8 bytes of memory due to the patching of intuition/OpenScreenTagList() function. Now it losts them only if another program patches the same function. o Optimized a bit (saved over 512 bytes :-) v2.10 (14.12.95) o Veritcal centering option added - 'VCenter'. (Requested by Aaron Robinson and several other people) o Border blanking option added - 'BBlank'. (Suggested by Christian Kemp) o Options changed to mixed-case (increases readability). o ILBM unpacker rewritten in machine code. A bit faster :). o 68040+ version included o 'DELAY' option added in ClosePic. (Suggested by Javier Rodrguez Cos) o Version string included in ClosePic. o Bonus pictures cropped to used area (now smaller, but need 'VCenter' option to be centered correctly). o Further optimizations made saving some bytes (again smaller than previous version!) o Installer script included (finally...) v2.11 (18.12.95) o Ooopsss... vertical centering had been working until final compilation... really stupid bug. Fixed. o Error messages sometimes were doubled (strange, indeed). Fixed. o Documentation updated... I didn't write that ClosePic's DELAY tooltype value is expressed in ticks. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1188 548 53.8% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 SysPic.info 614 343 44.1% 14-Dec-95 00:23:40 +Bonus.readme 31652 7690 75.7% 13-Dec-95 20:50:18 +windows1.ilbm 32202 8095 74.8% 13-Dec-95 20:50:04 +windows2.ilbm 32590 8099 75.1% 13-Dec-95 20:50:26 +windows3.ilbm 33182 8396 74.6% 13-Dec-95 20:50:36 +windows4.ilbm 35806 10089 71.8% 13-Dec-95 20:50:54 +windows5.ilbm 1188 546 54.0% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 +C.info 13092 8313 36.5% 18-Dec-95 12:44:38 +SysPic 12880 8162 36.6% 18-Dec-95 12:42:22 +SysPic.020 12876 8160 36.6% 18-Dec-95 12:45:26 +SysPic.040 1814 754 58.4% 17-Dec-95 16:07:46 +Install SysPic 1906 1037 45.5% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 +Install SysPic.info 13741 5686 58.6% 18-Dec-95 12:47:54 +SysPic.doc 1567 715 54.3% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 +SysPic.doc.info 15262 6132 59.8% 18-Dec-95 11:50:22 +SysPic.guide 1572 870 44.6% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 +SysPic.guide.info 1188 548 53.8% 14-Dec-95 17:21:52 +WBStartup.info 844 497 41.1% 14-Dec-95 17:25:46 +ClosePic 1644 635 61.3% 14-Dec-95 17:22:00 +ClosePic.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 246808 85315 65.4% 22-Dec-95 01:46:44 20 files