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SETTING THE COLORS
The first item of the Configuration Menu allows you to set the
screen and colors default settings. After picking this option
you will be shown a menu listing the various parts of the
screen displays (e.g., menu foreground colors). If you pick
one of these items you will be allowed to scroll through the
possible colors for it by using the arrow keys. When you have
selected the right colors, press Return. If you want to leave
the colors menu without selecting one press Esc.
Another setting on the 'Screen and colors' menu is the 'Screen
write mode'. If you pick this option you will be asked in
which way you want Telix to write to the screen. This depends
on the video adapter present in your system. The first option
is a direct screen write. This is the fastest mode, and should
be used if you have a monochrome adapter, an EGA adapter, or
another video adapter that never gets snow. The second option
is a direct screen write with port checks. This method is
slightly slower. You should use this method if you screen gets
snow on it or it flickers while executing the DOS 'dir' com-
mand. One card with which you should use this is the
color/graphics adapter. Don't use this option if your video
card doesn't need it, as it may interfere with communications.
The final method is a screen write with BIOS calls. You should
use this method with applications like Topview or DoubleDOS.
This method is quite slow however. Note that you do not need
this mode to run Telix under DESQview, since Telix is DV
aware.
Another setting on this menu is 'Default screen size'. This
allows you to pick an alternate default screen size of 80x43
or 80x50. Note that these modes require an EGA or VGA card.
Note also that many EGA cards can not do 80x50, and some VGA
cards can not do 80x43.
When you have finished picking the colors, select the 'Keep
changes & exit' option if you want to keep the color changes
you have made, or the 'exit' option if you want to discard
them.
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