[arachne] Re: DOS screen colours

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On Sat, 30 May 2009 09:10:56 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

>> I used a small utility named TD.COM to change colors on the fly, no ANSI.SYS 
>> needed.

> And I wrote one for myself, for the same purpose, also no ANSI.SYS needed.
> That was years ago, but it still works.

> And MS-DOS 6.20 is booted to a boot-menu on my system, in colour right from 
> the 
> beginning when no drivers are loaded at all.

Gosh, yes. I'd forgotten that! ;-)

> Looks like there are quite a few ways to do it.  :)

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