diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
index 89627df26a..5268b9b5d4 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot/chapter.sgml
@@ -600,9 +600,10 @@ boot:</screen>
 	<sect4 id="boot-splash-function">
 	  <title>Splash Screen Function</title>
 
-	  <para>The splash screen function only supports 256-color
-	    bitmap (<filename>.bmp</filename>) or ZSoft
-	    <acronym>PCX</acronym> (<filename>.pcx</filename>) files.
+	  <para>The splash screen function supports 256-color
+	    bitmap (<filename>.bmp</filename>), ZSoft
+	    <acronym>PCX</acronym> (<filename>.pcx</filename>), or
+	    TheDraw (<filename>.bin</filename>) files.
 	    In addition, the splash image files must have a resolution
 	    of 320 by 200 pixels or less to work on standard VGA
 	    adapters.</para>
@@ -654,10 +655,11 @@ boot:</screen>
 	<sect4 id="boot-splash-enable">
 	  <title>Enabling the Splash Screen Function</title>
 
-	  <para>The splash screen (<filename>.bmp</filename>) or
-	    (<filename>.pcx</filename>) file has to be placed on the
-	    root partition, for example in the <filename
-	      class="directory">/boot</filename> directory.</para>
+	  <para>The splash screen (<filename>.bmp</filename>,
+	    <filename>.pcx</filename>, or <filename>.bin</filename>)
+	    file has to be placed on the root partition, for example
+	    in the <filename class="directory">/boot</filename>
+	    directory.</para>
 
 	  <para>For default boot display resolution (256-color, 320 by
 	    200 pixels, or less), edit
@@ -689,13 +691,20 @@ bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bmp</replaceable>"</programlisting>
 bitmap_load="YES"
 bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.pcx</replaceable>"</programlisting>
 
-	  <para>The file name is not restricted to
-	    <quote>splash</quote> as shown in the above example.  It
-	    can be anything as long as it has type of
-	    <acronym>BMP</acronym> or <acronym>PCX</acronym>, such as
+	  <para>In version 8.3 another option is to use ascii art in
+	    <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw">TheDraw</ulink>
+	    format.</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>splash_txt="YES"
+bitmap_load="YES"
+bitmap_name="<replaceable>/boot/splash.bin</replaceable>"</programlisting>
+
+	  <para>The file name is not restricted to <quote>splash</quote>
+	    as shown in the above example.  It can be anything as long
+	    as it is one of the above types such as,
 	    <filename><replaceable>splash_640x400</replaceable>.bmp</filename>
 	    or
-	    <filename><replaceable>blue_wave</replaceable>.pcx</filename>.</para>
+	    <filename><replaceable>bluewave</replaceable>.pcx</filename>.</para>
 
 	  <para>Some other interesting
 	    <filename>loader.conf</filename> options:</para>