From: "Lionel Brits" <britsc AT cadvision DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Colours
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:19:32 -0600
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Hi,

Though this is far from portable, you could always write to screen memory
0xb0000. First character is the text, while the second is the attribute
(colour, intensity)

HTH,

- Lionel Brits

"Steve B" <knurd62 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:993062430 DOT 11148 DOT 0 DOT nnrp-13 DOT c1ed4a47 AT news DOT demon DOT co DOT uk...
> Hi,
> Im programming a text adventure game using DJGPP
> and im wondering how to use colours (with <iostream>
> and cout) in c++.
>
> Ive heard something about using ANSI escape sequences
> but im not sure how to use these for colours.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Steve Barnett
>
>