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- The Banner window
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- Using this window you can do one of two things.
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- The first is the option of speeding up the welcome banner and can be done by
- setting the 'Speed up welcome banner' option.
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- You will probably have noticed that when the welcome banner is being drawn,
- you can see the text being plotted slowly. This is because when the computer
- is switched on the font cache which holds the fonts needed for the plotting
- is empty and while it is drawing the banner it is copying data from ROM to
- RAM and scaling the fonts to different sizes which is slow but when your
- desktop appears all the fonts used will be already calculated and so
- EasiBoot takes a snapshot of the font cache and stores it in the boot
- program and then just before the welcome banner is shown on start-up it
- re-loads this snapshot into the font cache which from a hard disc is very
- quick and then when the computer draws the banner all the fonts needed are
- already in the cache and it can show it much quicker.
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- From this window you can also replace the welcome banner entirely by setting
- the 'Replace banner with sprite' option and typing in the file name of the
- sprite that you want to appear instead of the banner. Instead you could
- drag a sprite file onto the sprite icon and its file name will automatically
- be put in the writable icon.
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- The sprite will be automatically centred for that screen mode. Errors will
- not be reported on start-up and instead the old banner will be displayed
- instead. Errors may be caused by there not being a sprite file or not enough
- memory in RMA.
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