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- From: mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
- Subject: Re: Ansi and Jrcomm
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.021654.8132@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
- References: <kehlet.05s9@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:16:54 GMT
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- In article <kehlet.05s9@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>, kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
- >Flashing text is one of the few things, that the peecee's can easily create
- >due to their text-mapped display.
- >
- >On the Amiga, however, the display is bitmapped, so reproducing flashing
- >text would demand a routine to constantly swap colors between the
- >background color and the foreground color.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >I have tried to do a workaround on this myself, as I have written a
- >commercially sold terminal software package, but with the options given
- >from a bitmapped console, it's not that easy to make it fast, I can tell
- >you...
- >
- >I'd for sure rather be working with a FAAAST comms program and miss the
- >flashing text, than look at one, that has flashing text and is a speed-pain
- >in the b*tt...
- >
- >
- >> --
- >> Rich Yauman
- >
- >--
- > Jesper Kehlet, Compos Mentis Software Systems -- A Kind Of Magic
- >
- > (uunet|pyramid|rutgers)!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmden!kehlet!kehlet
- > cbmehq!cbmden!kehlet!kehlet@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >
- > "Yet another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride"
-
-
- What if (sounds like an old HP commercial!) you made one of the screen colors
- the color you underline with and use a copper routine that changes its color
- every so often...
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- | Watch the starlight shooting for the sky Reaching out to catch |
- | a piece of paradise. Is it true or is it just imaginations? |
- | Visions twist around my mind and bring me shelter from the night |
- | Michael Phipps == mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (R.I.T.) |
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