mdehling
Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos
on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:55PM (#31459526)
Email me if you like (username at gmail) - would be nice if we could make this work!
Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:04AM (#31411770)
Nice collection! I’ve never seen the S3000 in person, but from the photos I’ve seen it looks amazing. Love the orange plasma on my IBM PS/2 P70/P75!
Any chance you might be willing to help out by sending me some firmware or logo data? For the little B&W logos it could be as simple as typing “sun-logo 200 dump” at the ok prompt.
Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:46AM (#31411484)
Yep. Standard Sun resolution for the longest time was 1152x900. The little B&W logos are 64x64 and most of the newer ones are 100x100 so like 9% of the screen width.
Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:43AM (#31411425)
True of course. In the beginning it was just Sun fb logos; later I added the clones and laptops but didn’t want to rename the repository.
Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:39AM (#31411370)
Unfortunately, no, at least not in all cases. For some of these the logo was in Sun RasterFile format or in a simple (width, height, colormap, data) format. In other cases it took a serious amount of reverse engineering to extract the logo: For the RasterFlex-HR logo I had to read the colormap from the hardware directly because the firmware never initializes it.