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- From: avenom@sci.fi (Tuomas Salo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Q:ANSI 16 colors & blinking - possible?
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:15:25 GMT
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- tempest@netins.net wrote:
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- >In article <4ftfqh$a05@tron.sci.fi>, avenom@sci.fi (Tuomas Salo) writes:
- >>Can I use 16 colors with ANSI? The first 8 ones are easy, but is the
- >>Graphics Rendition attribute 2 (secondary color/dim/faint/etc) usable?
- >>Also, can blinking be used?
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- >Well there is no such thing as 16 color ansi codes... not on ibm or amiga.
- >ANSI has 8 color codes.. on ibm they use a hack to make it appear like
- >16 colors using the bold on/off.. some have done this hack on amiga too.
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- I thought it was the dim/faint attribute (2), which is mentioned in
- some Amiga books, too.
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- >As far as doing this hack.. I have no idea.. i would like to know how too..
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- Same thing with the blinking?
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- tuomas
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