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From: sjm@unhd.unh.edu (Scott J Mccue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mucking with text color in SoftPC - how?
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.201537.10150@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 20:15:37 GMT
References: <6805@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Marine Systems Engineering Lab
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In article <6805@idunno.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
>Hi!  I have access to a copy of SoftPC, and I was playing about with it
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>more...IBM-like, and the color green came to mind :-).  I tried mucking
>about with it using ResEdit, and tried changing the WIND and wctb
>resources, among others, but was unable to affect it.  I suspect that it
>is becuse it is determined by the softPC itself, not the Mac resources.
>Does anyone know a way to make the text come out green?  I haven't

    SoftPC acts almost exactly as an ms-dos machine, so you make the changes
in SoftPC by implementing them at the DOS level. I have my SoftPC "machine" 
showing a blue background w/ white letters, and I do it by using Norton
Utilities for the IBM PC (not the new utilities for the Mac). 
     If you don't wish to spend money on PC programs, there are tons of PD
utilities and programs at ftp-able sites such as SIMTEL20 and wuarchive. Or,
you can join the IBM oriented forums in Compuserve or others. The wuarchive 
mirror is at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4). Login anonymously, and then 
cd to mirrors, then msdos.  BTW, there are some ANSI.SYS replacements in the 
screen subdirectory that can speed up graphics and such to the SoftPC screen. 
The results aren't blazing, but they do help.
     All of these changes are done the way you'd do them to a normal msdos
machine- in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS generally. 

sjm@unhd.unh.edu