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From: "Michael Anthon" <michael at anthon.net>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Splash screens
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:36:52 -0700
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<snip>
>
> >Are you sure? Isn't it width by height? And width > height? I thought it
> >was half 640 * 480.
>
> nope. that's m$ for ya. but the best way to get a picture that looks good
> is to get one that's viewable in 640x480 as it gets stretched on startup.
>
<snip>
To be fair[1], it's not really a stupid thing that MS did.  It just so
happens that one of the standard modes for a VGA card is 320x400 and it just
so happens that this is the mode that MS is using as they boot up, there's
nothing particularly unusual or stupid about it.

Cheers
Michael

[1] Not to be interpreted as supporting M$ at all.


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