Subj : Re: ANSI display within Mystic Local mode
To   : Adept
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Aug 13 2020 19:20:04

  Re: Re: ANSI display within Mystic Local mode
  By: Adept to The Godfather on Fri Jun 05 2020 08:52 pm

 > Though, honestly, I'm not really sure what iCE Colors are, as it seems like
 > something that's more of a decision by a terminal window in how to display
 > things, but I lack knowledge to say much of use there, too.

iCE color is a CGA mode where the blink/flashing-foreground attribute bit (out of 8 total attribute bits) is instead used to change the current background attribute to high-intensity (bright). Re-defining this behavior of the "blnk" display attribute is actually a gross misuse of the ANSI terminal emulation, but whatever.

Without iCE (bright-bg) support, a terminal/console can only display 8 background colors. With iCE support, a terminal/console can display up to 16 background colors (but loses the blink ability). The foreground color palette (used to represent the pixels of each charcter cell glyph) is always 16 colors, in CGA color modes (i.e. the only colors supported by ANSI.sys and ANSI BBSes).

                                            digital man

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