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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Screen colors
Message-ID: <505@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 22:48:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.505
Posted: Sat Aug 15 22:48:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Aug-87 06:28:37 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: Preferences
Summary: Color combination blues (heh)... And: "Matt Dillon, where are you?".

> Its funny. When I first got my amiga I looked at the stock blue and white
> screen, and thought "Hmm, that has to go". I have changed it over the last
> 18 mos. to almost every possible color combination (red text, yellow text 
> etc.) and what do I use now ? The original blue for background and light
> peach for text. Full circle. (almost)

Funny for me, too. I use blue background with white lettering on color
monitors (mainly IBMs, but also Atari 800) as a matter of course, possibly
because the blue and white was the default on the 800 and I got used to
it. When I started using the Amiga I expected to leave blue and white alone,
though that ugly cursor went in the trash can immediately. Well, I found I
was getting eyestrain. I tried switching colors around (making my wife nauseous)
and ended back at blue and white, but with the white lowered in contrast
to 0x999, and a little green in the blue (0x035). This is just about perfect,
and just about identical to the Atari 800.

It also allows the cursor to be bright (0xFF0, 0xFC0, 0xC90) and stand out
better.

Now that I think on it, since Jay Miner did the 800 and the Amiga, I should
only be surprised that 0x999 on 0x035 wasn't the original arrangement.

Now if only I can get a terminal program that (1) is small, (2) provides a
good VT100, and (3) allows me to hack the menus.

Matt Dillon: could you post (or mail me) dterm source, so I can try fixing
some of the bugs (like: crashing, and brain damaged emulation)? Right now
I use DTERM to dial, and switch to AmigaTerm for editing.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)