Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:25:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: Bryan Murphy <bryan AT hcst DOT com>
cc: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Allegro
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Use text_mode(color) function.
Pass the background color you want to use or -1 to use no background color
(transparent fonts). Look it up in allegro docs for more information.

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Bryan Murphy wrote:

> When I display bitmap fonts with Allegro, the background is always color 
> 0.   Is there an easy way to change this w/o actually having to change 
> color 0 to a different color in the palette?
>