From: "Stefan Viljoen" <Stefan_Viljoen AT excite DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Color Text...
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:42:01 +0200
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Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net> wrote in message
news:92tp52$qot$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com...
> In article <3A52601F DOT 300F61D2 AT crosslink DOT net>,
>   mmattb AT hotmail DOT com wrote:
> > ... Is there any way to print color text (something other than white)
> in
> > pure C++? Or do I need to go to a platform specific news group. I've
> > searched the internet and my MSDN help thing, but I couldn't find
> > anything regarding to it.
>

Or you could just mess with the screen directly - each second byte (?) of
80x25x16 text mode is a color byte. See
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/prog.html for pointers on accessing screen
memory directly - the method to access 320x200x256 VGA should work as it is
with the text screen memory address (0x0B800 instead of 0x0A000) ?

Regards,

Stefan Viljoen
F/EMS Dispatcher
Potchefstroom F/EMS
South Africa
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/