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- Part of the ENHANCER series of programs PALETCON.COM Ver. 1.0, Apr 17, 1985
-
- Copyright (C) I. B. Miller 1985
-
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-
- To: Enhancers
- 231 Otonabee Ave.
- Willowdale, Ontario, Canada
- M2M-2S9
-
- PALETCON is a program which Controls any of seventeen palettes on the
- enhanced color card ( Enhanced Graphics Adapter), to my knowledge it uses DOS
- functions properly as Underground docs. suggest will be recommended by IBM
- when it sees fit in its Corporate Wisdom to release documentation.
-
- PALETCON uses a selectable interrupt default of keyboard 09, on the AT I
- also like 15 Sys Req, feel free to experiment, in order to reset palette
- colors as desired. This defeats the revisionist tendencies of most programs
- which reset colors to standard and then use black and white instead of your
- choice of colors. The only trouble is that on anything but the AT the speed
- of the DOS reset of color palettes is so slow as to be noticeable. I am
- looking at ways to speed it up so that this program will be more easily
- used on a regular PC.
-
- Note that some other programs such as Sidekick also work by borrowing
- or stealing vectors. This program and such others are usually compatible but
- in case of difficulty the order in which they are called up can be important
- as in the case of Sidekick where this must be called first.
-
-
- Syntax is: PALSET PHH,PHH,iHH,sHH,o,r
- ----------
-
- , indicates another palette color change is coming
-
- P is any hex digit (0-F) to indicate the desired palette number.
-
- s means the overscan or border ( letter s ) (Not useable in enhanced mode)
- (temporarily fouls up display.)
-
- o means turn off the resetting action ( letter o )
-
- r means reset to standard colors ( letter r )
-
- HH is the color to be used (MUST be 2 digits - see below for colors -
-
- Regular Monitor - note that the default gives standard colors on
- ---------------- the enhanced monitor - you must set the high intensity
- colors for the regular monitor following rules below.
-
- note that if you have a regular monitor the card will give regular colors
- only but while 8 to F are NORMALLY high intensity versions of 0 to 7
- the EGA must have a 1 put in to get high intensity.
- - A is bright green on regular card but on the EGA
- bright green is 1A or 12 - similar for 0E and 1E or 16 etc.
-
- I suspect that it has to do with the fact that when operating with
- a regular monitor the card ignores bits to define other colors and just
- uses those which define the standard set of 8, then it looks to the high
- digit and looks only at the 1 bit to pick high intensity.
-
- Enhanced Monitor
- ----------------
-
- Bits 1 is Medium Blue - 01
- 2 is Medium Green - 02
- 3 is Medium Red - 04
- 4 is Low intensity Blue - 08
- 5 is Low intensity Green - 10
- 6 is Low intensity Red - 20
- 1+4 is High intensity Blue - 09 Low and medium add to give
- 2+5 is High intensity Green - 12 high - this is the basic
- 3+6 is High intensity Red - 24 principle the card works on
-
- There are also a high number of mixed and matched colors available
- Feel free to try combinations. I just received the Enhanced Display
- and am having a great time setting special colors.
-
- This program is particularly good for use with the 3278/79 emulation to get
- some decent colors on the screen, set up and use BAT files for your colors.
-
-
- Following is the standard palette color set and the numbers which describe
- them
-
- B B G C R M B W G High intensity colors O
- l l r y e a r h r --------------------- v
- a u e a d g o i e B G C R M B W e
- c e e n e w t y l r y e a r h r
- k n n n e u e a d g o i s
- t e e n e w t c
- a n t n e a
- a n
-
- palette No = 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10
- ^-this is the
- Seventeenth I have
- used the letter s for it
- in the program parameters.
-
- Sample command ( Easiest to use from a batch file as remembering colors
- -------------- is difficult)
-
- PALETCON 001,212,717,916,s01 (note that this choice is for a regular monitor)
-
- to set up the palettes to get decent colors with the 3278/79 emulate
- card - change as desired to have different colors in place of standard.
-
- This says change 0 or Black background to 01 or Blue background
- 2 or Dark Green to 12 or Light Green
- 7 or White * to 17 or High intensity White
- 9 or Light Blue ** to 16 or Light Yellow
- s or Overcan (Border) to 01 or Blue border
- * It is called White but it is really a Dull White
-
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
- For obvious reasons the user is totally responsible for use of this
- program and determining that it is suitable for use by him, and he uses this
- program with no warranty from myself.
-
- It should work properly with the EGA from IBM or any card which later
- maintains compatibility with it
-
- General
- --------
- The official standard color palettes are:
-
- 0. Black 8. grey
- 1. Blue 9. Light Blue
- 2. Green A. light Green
- 3. Cyan B. Light Cyan
- 4. Red C. light Red
- 5. Magenta D. Light Magenta
- 6. Brown E. Yellow
- 7. White F. bright White
-
- You might want to try some of the following to replace any of the
- standard colors - example uses the 0 or normally Black Palette.
- 10 - a beautiful deep green "paletcon 010"
- 08 - a very deep blue "paletcon 008"
- 20 - a very deep red "paletcon 020"
- 34 - an orangish salmon "paletcon 034"
- 25 - a hot pink "paletcon 025"
-
- If you have any comments or suggestions please contact
- me either at Home in the evenings at (416) 226-9753
- or at the following BBS's PCanada(pc-1266) (416) 751-6337
- SGV-BBS (416) 673-0557