[rescue] Framebuffer Logos

[EDWARD COTTONGIM]

Here is a just-for-fun query.

Does anybody have a collection of the framebuffer logos that appear on boot? With the variety of framebuffers around, I'm sure there are rarely-seen ones.

For example, the CG6:
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(This picture is 512x512, so I don't know where it came from.. the boot ones look about 128x96 to me)

Well down this page, you'll see the rather rare GT logo:
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16725172&sid=1723ed1919e0228d174da84a160724fa http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16725172&sid=1723ed1919e0228d174da84a160724fa

Probably the AG10-E:
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A ZX/Leo:
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A few side questions:

When did Sun began displaying a framebuffer logo at boot?
Is there a way to pull the graphics off the card programmatically instead of photographing the monitor?

Have fun,

Eddie
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[Bill Bradford]

Post by EDWARD COTTONGIM
http://www.hyperstation.de/Leoboot.jpg

Now that brings back memories, of my main machine at home circa 1998-1999; a
SS10 with a couple of HyperSPARC procs, maxed out RAM, and a ZX framebuffer.

Bill

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Post by EDWARD COTTONGIM
Does anybody have a collection of the framebuffer logos that appear
on boot? With the variety of framebuffers around, I'm sure there are
rarely-seen ones.

Based on what you say below, I'll assume you're talking about Suns.

Post by EDWARD COTTONGIM
http://www.obsolyte.com/sunPICS/misc/3dlogo.gif
(This picture is 512x512, so I don't know where it came from.. the
boot ones look about 128x96 to me)

I think the logo area is actually square, though perhaps not entirely
used by some framebuffers.

Post by EDWARD COTTONGIM
When did Sun began displaying a framebuffer logo at boot?

My guess is "with OpenBoot", but that's just a guess.

Post by EDWARD COTTONGIM
Is there a way to pull the graphics off the card programmatically
instead of photographing the monitor?

Sometimes. I'm fairly sure I found a logo image in a dump of at least
one framebuffer's FCode area, though I've failed to find the directory
I did that work in, and I don't know whether other cards have similarly
easily findable logo images.

If you boot a kernel that doesn't scroll the framebuffer too much, the
logo image may still be visible when the kernel gets control and thus
may be readable out of the framebuffer itself.

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[Richard Sheppard]

I believe the logos are meant to be 100x100 pixels. The one of the CG6 may be
an original rendering.
It would also be nice to know who the original artists were.
I was able to extract the XVR-100 data from a firmware update available on the
web. I think it was called "Papaya".
The XVR-1200 was obtained by a ROM scanning program - it needed to find the
pixel data as well as the colormap table.
Two other cards I tried (PGX-64 and XVR-500) still elude me.

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