28 Aug
2014
28 Aug
'14
9 p.m.
On 08/28/2014 05:24 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
In 1986, my publisher claimed that they were getting
complaints that
"XenoCopy won't work on a color display". Turns out that the complaint
was really that I used the system default text display of 0x07, 0x0f and
0x70.
So, I added colored boxes around the text, and in the title page.
5? years later, knew someone who got a used machine, and thought that it
was a B&W display until she ran the "new" version of XenoCopy.
That was a problem. I selected a nice looking combination of CGA colors
if I detected a color display--but you never knew when someone was
running a mono display from a CGA/EGA/VGA card, so I also added a "MONO"
switch to the command line, just in case--to select the
nothing/white/bright white color set.
Some outfit made a monochrome monitor with a color jug in it, so you
could manually select what color you wanted your display to use. Seems
a bit silly today, but there you go. IIRC, if you were driving a
multisync like the Sony 1302 with an HCG/MDA display board, the default
was--green. I don't know if the monitor allowed for a change.
--Chuck