13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
3:42 p.m.
John Harrell was a prolific writer/programmer who published most of his work
in 80 Micro. His stuff was always top-notch. I don't recall SETCOLOR. 80
Micro did eventually cover the Tandy 1000/2000, so he must have submitted
the program shortly after the 2000's release.
--Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: SETCOLOR info found
I was doing some reorganizing of my computer room (an
ongiong
project!) and I came across a note stuck inside of a box of disks,
which I hadn't noticed before. One of my TRS-80 Model 2000's came
from MISOSYS owner Roy Soltoff after it had sat around for a number
of years after he didn't enter the Model 2000 market. He had bought
if for a development system. Anyway, the note is from a John Harrell
offering him a utility for the machine called SETCOLOR. He states
that he had offered it to 80-Micro but that they weren't interested
in it since they didn't have an interest in the MS-DOS world. He
also gives considerable info on how the utility works. Basically it
patches the IO.SYS file so that programs display a system-wide choice
of colors for foreground, background, and high intensity versions of
both. It's dated 29 March 1985. The disk was stuck behind my MIX-C
and ED/ASM-86 disks.
Jeff
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