Jim, > On Jun 17, 2021, at 12:52 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:21 AM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net > <mailto:jer...@shidel.net>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> A while back Jim did a nice article on DOS text mode colors. >> >> I asked him why he didn’t cover VGA text mode pallets for customizing them. >> >> This led to the creation of a simple tool to demonstrate altering the text >> mode colors to whatever RGB value you want on VGA systems. >> >> https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/vgapal.html >> > > > That is indeed a neat little tool. When I wrote that article, I didn't > realize you could change the text palette. Very neat to experiment > with this tool. :-) > > Also: I rewrote and expanded on that other "text colors" article, and > it's today's article in the month-long series: > https://opensource.com/article/21/6/freedos-sixteen-colors > <https://opensource.com/article/21/6/freedos-sixteen-colors> > > (But I didn't mention palettes in this one, either.)
I don’t blame you for not mentioning it. It really is a whole new can of worms. Kinda like custom text mode fonts. Perhaps something that belongs in a different article. Like maybe the types and progression of video cards. Or, maybe something on the differences between EGA and VGA. Or, who knows… All kinds of possibilities. :-) Jerome
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