Bright Backgrounds ?!?

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 05-26-92 (00:15)             Number: 131
From: JEFF FREEMAN                 Refer#: NONE
  To: JOE CRIGGER                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: Bright Backgrounds ?!?         Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
 On 05-24-92 JOE CRIGGER wrote to ALL...

 JC> Does anyone know how to replace the blinking colors into bright
 JC> backgrounds?!?
 JC>

In 80-column mode  OUT &H3D8,9
in 40-column mode  OUT &H3D8,8

You lose the ability to BLINK characters, but can then have
high-intensity background colors.

As soon as the screen clears or scrolls then BLINK will be enabled again
(and High background's will be DISABLED).

Hope I'm helpful...



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