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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing a program that uses a mouse  - help needed
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.205619.27265@Octopus.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 90 20:56:19 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.003125.7426@frey.nu.oz.au> <0093F67C.47A771C0@router.jhuapl.edu> <1583@ukpoit.co.uk>
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In article <1583@ukpoit.co.uk> alan@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
>
>I'm trying to get a set of colors so I can use text mode but
>with a graduation from deep red->white->deep green. I'm using
>a VGA and Microsoft C 5.1, the following code sets up the colors
>
>long newcolormap[] =
>{
>	0x000000L, 0x00003fL, 0x0a0a3fL, 0x14143fL,
>	0x1e1e3fL, 0x28283fL, 0x32323fL, 0x1f1f1fL,
>	0x323f32L, 0x283f28L, 0x1e3f1eL, 0x143f14L,
>	0x0a3f0aL, 0x003f00L, 0x3f0000L, 0x3f3f3fL
>};
>
>void setupvga(void)
>{
>	_remapallpalette(newcolormap);
>} 
>
>but I have to use the Norton Command Centre to change the normal
>pallete colors (0,1,..,5,20,7,56,57,..,63) to sequential numbers
>(0,1,...,15) as the colors at 20 & 56 .. 63 don't change. Does any
>one know how to set the pallete colors like NCC does or alternately
>how to set these colors over 16.

According to my references here, BIOS int 10H function 10H sets the palette
registers (like NCC does) for EGA/VGA display adapters. The information
is quite lengthy however. I am relatively sure that this is listed in
Ralf Brown's interrupt list. You may want to look there.

Hope this helps....
Steve


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