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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Background screen on a Mac
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Date: 16 Mar 88 18:28:00 GMT
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tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM(Ted Johnson) writes in comp.sys.mac

>Does anyone know where can I find the definition of a StartupScreen file?  
>I haven't come across it in any of the Technical Notes or Inside Macintosh bibles...
>
>I am interested in writing a little program that makes StartupScreens
>from MacPaint files.  (Yes, I *know* it has been done before :-)
>
	If memory serves me correctly, the StartupScreen format that has been
constant until the Mac ][ is basically a MacPaint document WITHOUT the 512byte
header.  The Mac ][ however will also recognize StartupScreens which are stored
as a PICT RESOURCE of ID#0 in the file named StartupScreen.  The reason for the
new format is so that 1) you could have color StartupScreens and b) so that
you could have a WHOLE SCREEN startupscreen.

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