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- *Banner* COLOR COMMANDS
-
- To change colors while a *Banner* is scrolling, you type a caret (^)
- then two hex digits as described below. To enter a caret character into a
- *Banner*, type in two carets (^^)! In BASIC you would say COLOR 1,0 to make
- blue on black, in *Banner* you would type ^01 somewhere in a line.
-
- C O L O R S: Form: ^BF : B=BACKGROUND, F=FOREGROUND.
- 0 BLACK 8
- 1 BLUE 9 Both F and B can be any number from 0-F.
- 2 GREEN A
- 3 CYAN B Values over 7 in BACKGROUND will create
- 4 RED C flashing.
- 5 MAGENTA D
- 6 BROWN E Values over 7 in FOREGROUND make an
- 7 WHITE F intensified version of the first 0-7.
-
- *BANNER* DOT COMMANDS.
-
- The way you change from full-screen mode to scrolling mode or pause
- the display is with *BANNER* dot commands. This means that a dot is the FIRST
- character on the line. *BANNER* text cannot be mixed with dot commands, but
- you can enter several dot commands on one line.
-
- o .B = *BANNER* mode. Screen is cleared, one line message will scroll to the
- left.
-
- o .W = Window mode. Message is written on full-screen. Only 30 characters
- fill the screen. Messages less than 30 are padded with blanks, if
- your line is over 30 letters, it will be chopped off. Color short-
- hand (^BF) commands do not add to this count, in fact, every letter
- could be specified a different color combination.
-
- o .WU = Thirty characters scrolled UP the screen.
-
- o .WD = Window is scrolled DOWN the screen.
-
- o .WR = Window is written across the screen to the right.
-
- o .P xxx = Pause xxx after a line. .p 2000 will pause a second. This is a
- single-precision value and can be most any number.
-
- o .M xx "<string>" = Write a message in regular text on screen at line xx
- (9-25). If message is less than 80 letters, center it.
-
- o .C ^BF = Used to specify the color for the message in .M above.
-
- o .D xxx = Change the dots used to make up *BANNER* sized letters. Starts
- out CHR$(2). Can be anything from 1-254.
-
- o .L xx = Change the starting line for the *BANNER* scroll to the left
- routine. Starts out (line) 11. Can be 9-19. The scrolling
- *BANNER* can not be put at the top of the screen.
-
- o .N ^BF = Change the screen attribute in the current *BANNER* window
- without clearing the screen.
-
- o .S xxx = Send xxx (1-254) spaces to *BANNER*. Clear out a line.
-
- o .X "<string>" Music with the BASICA PLAY command. <String> is sent directly
- to PLAY.
-