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Re: Any planned comm software for SS/TR?



Dan Brown (vmbb!pro-newton!pro-dan!danb) wrote:
:         To my knowledge, Spectrum 2.0 still uses the text screen for VT100. 
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: I just got ANSITerm 2.1, and I _love_ it.  The VT100 emulation is
: near-perfect, and it addresses the one gripe I had with the 2.0 demo's
: VT100--in 2.0, bold just showed up as the "bright" version of whatever color
: you used for normal text.  Thus, to get bold to show, you needed a dim color,
: and the dithered grey was hard to read.  Now, you can set another color (like
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: bright yellow or cyan) for bold, and still use, say, white for normal text. 
: _Much_ better, IMHO.

:  --
: Dan Brown, KE6MKS
: ke6mks@pro-newton.cts.com   <<--- Use this, not the header address
: Don't Tread on Me.

well, you got me puzzled. how do you get different colours on the text 
screen without some bizaar timing schemes to swap colours at just the 
right scan position?

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