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From: cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack in colour with System V r3.2 curses
Message-ID: <365@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 22:46:14 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.175507.991@cti-software.nl>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <1990Aug3.175507.991@cti-software.nl>, by (Pim Zandbergen):
> I have just finished compiling the latest and greatest
> release of nethack on ISC UNIX (System V/386 release 3.2).
> Everything runs just fine, but it lacks the colours that 
> were promised when defining TEXTCOLOR in include/unixconf.h.
> Any clue anybody?

Not that I ever have time to play games, but I just solved this problem
under ESIX.  I had to do the following:

1) change the ANSI color escape sequences in termcap.c
   to specify the color first, and then the intensity second.
   Note that Nethack is incredibly "poortable" and therefore
   finding the hunk of code which UNIX uses is nontrivial.
   Anyhow, it does them with lines similar to:
        sprintf(hilites[c+BRIGHT],"\033[1;3%dm",c);
   but you need something like
        sprintf(hilites[c+BRIGHT],"\033[3%dm\033[1m",c);

2) Either set the "standout" option, or remove some checks in pri.c
   which specify no colors unless flags.standout is on.  Perhaps this
   doesn't matter.  1) is the main thing.

And gee, the money is really more satisfying in bright yellow than it is
in drab white...

Of course, I don't know if this same trick works under ISC or SCO.
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