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From: rjung@sal61.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: startup screen
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Date: 12 Apr 89 15:18:58 GMT
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In article <10201@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> jriegel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Riegel) writes:
>    I have been experimenting with writing a "startup screen" type program such
>as exists on the Amiga and Mac, to replace the desktop's background. ...
>   Does anyone know of any existing utility that installs a background screen,
>or any way to get around the above difficulty?

  Easel/ST is a small, slightly-hard-to-find program that will do just that.
You give it DEGAS pictures for whatever resolution you'd like to boot up in,
and Easel will load it as your Desktop image.

  I personally don't see the use for such a thing, but if you can get it cheap
enough, why not?

						--R.J.
						B-)

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