On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 21:45:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Xterm has a 256-color mode that can be used for subtler
You can do a palette swap in hardware text mode too (fiddling the
vga palette registers, I think it is the same as in mode 13h but
it's been a looooong time since I've played with that), the linux
console in vga text mode (see man console_codes(4)), and in
Windows console:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686039%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Perhaps bad practice to change that stuff, at least not without
changing it back when you're done, but it is doable.
Actually, my biggest problem with linux is how terrible the
operating system is compared to DOS and Windows. I'm not even
kidding, the unix terminal debacle sucks (maybe good when you had
various hardware, but it is weak next to what the PC hardware
offers), the available system facilities suck (Win32 is plenty
usable and reliably there! Even on linux, using a Windows .exe
tends to work better than using a linux binary - exe's just work
there thanks to wine, whereas linux binaries always have some
incompatibility).
Eh I'm getting off topic.
