Re: Any planned comm software for SS/TR?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3h0k8h$p2a@phase.helix.net>,
tsetse <tsetse@trance.helix.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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?

Read it again.  Spectrum 2.0 uses the text screen.  ANSITerm 2.1 uses
the Super hi-res graphics screen.  ANSITerm is the one that has
colours.  (Spectrum can also do coloured text in its ANSI terminal
emulator, which runs in Super hi-res mode.)
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David Empson
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