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- From: leifdude@aol.com (LeifDude)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 16-color ANSI codes...
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:31:14 -0500
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- I was in da same boat.
- I found that the built in ANSI emulation on the console device only uses 8
- colors and instead of the other 8 brighter colors it just does them in
- boldface type.
-
- From what I gather (unless there is a way to modify the console devices
- handling of ANSI sequences) you must code your own ANSI interpreter and
- instead of going to Bold Face, you must go to the next brighter colors...
-
- The Amiga does actually send the correct ANSI codes (if directed to do
- so), its just that the standard console will not represent them the same
- way an IBM will.
- In other words, a particular 16 color ANSI screen will look different on
- an Amiga rather than an IBM.
-
- I suggest downloading a text on ANSI standard and writing your own ANSI
- handler.
-
- Hope dis stuff made some sense.
-