[ILUG] Bootable Business Card Splash Screen

[John P . Looney]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:07:00PM +0100, John McCormac mentioned:
> Niall O Broin wrote:
> >    I'm trying to get the ILUG BBC card finally out to all you patient
> > people, and I want an ILUG splash screen. My first effort is below, based on
> > the Mandrake start screen. As this is using a lot of ASCII control codes, I
> > have no idea how it's going to transfer via email so the ASCII is below
> 
> There was a rake of splash screen tools developed for DOS a few years
> ago when BBSes were popular. Perhaps they may help with testing/dev.
> Basically you could save the output as ANSI and then transfer to Linux.

 Of course people with real OSes' use the Gimp's AA plugin, load in a PNG,
and save it as ascii ;)

 Niall, very nice. Only thing really missing is the bit of green on his
belly - resolution is prolly too small for a shamrock ;)

Kate

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