[arachne] Re: DOS screen colours

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From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:05 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:

>> That is funny indeed. I infer that if those people could see Enhanced
>> DR-DOS with its user-selectable screen colours boot, they would
>> probably assume that it is *not* DOS what they see. ;-)

> It can be done with MS-DOS too, if ANSI.SYS is loaded. Probably with
> other DOSes as well -- I haven't tried them.

Yes, but in Enhanced DR-DOS, this ability is built-in, so it can be
used even before the first driver loads. The other DOSes I know still
boot in black and white. Maybe there is a work-around in other DOSes,
but it would probably require that one loads ANSI.SYS before other
drivers, which means that it cannot be loaded high. Also, I am not
aware of any ANSI.SYS escape sequence that changes the colour of text
that is already on screen, like the BIOS output.

Regards,

Udo

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