Color, the SCO console vs FacetWin

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:00:39PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> Or more likely, both sides unchanged would be going through the switch, so
> it probably would not change the display... unless both got dimmer or
> brighter in the same relative amount because of anything the switch might
> add or subtract. Do you see what I mean?

I believe that this reply showed up out of order, and you've already
found it, but to recap the fundamental underlying cause, since I don't
recall that anyone *quite* pinned it:

On the unix box, the colors you're seeing are those chosen by the bios
as the standard entries in the color Look Up Tables on the VGA card for
the 8 bright and standard colors in the normal ANSI set (which, in
turn, I think were chosen because they were on PC color cards...
thought I might be wrong.  More likely, it was the chipsets that the
CGA cards used.)

On the emulator, though, those color choices (as you've since
disccovered) are made *by the emulator software* -- you could actually
jumble them around so that GREEN was red, and the like, if you wanted
to.  So, in order to fix your problem, you needed to change the
emulator's choice of colors of what colors to display... and you did.

Cheers,
-- jra
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