Displaying a BMP image?

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Displaying a BMP image?

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Anybody have knowledge/examples/links of how to go about showing a bitmap image onto a screen when booting?

Thanks
Dangamoose

RE:Displaying a BMP image?

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Try www.wotsit.org for the fileformat.

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RE:Displaying a BMP image?

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Hi
Ypu could use VESA to set up a high-res linear framebuffer and then copy the pixel-data from the bitmap to the screen.

http://www.vesa.org/vbe3.pdf   About the VESA Bios Extensions

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gaf
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