Feature Request: More Colors for SCREEN 0

[manstersoft]

Weird stuff.
So with _BLINK OFF in order to change COLOR 31 I have to change PALETTE 15.

Just to clarify, with _BLINK set to OFF...

• COLOR's 0 to 7 are background and foreground
• COLOR's 8 to 15 are background and are the same as 16 to 31 which are foreground
• You cannot use 8 to 15 as a foreground color as long as _BLINK is set to off.
• Edit: You may use 8 to 15 as a foreground color as long as you're using only 0 to 7 as a background color (compatible with qbasic).

Does this seem accurate?

[FellippeHeitor]

As I said it, this is (was) uncharted territory until now. If you got those from experimenting, I have to trust it's correct.

What we did add when _BLINK was implemented was the ability to emulate the OUT call of DOS days that would actually disable the blinking in the graphics card. I hope the behaviour will be as close to QBasic days as possible.