Subj : Re: ms-dos text mode tricks
To   : hollowone
From : hollowone
Date : Sat Dec 30 2023 01:38:05

 ho> What I'm looking for is more VGA orientated than DOS thing.
 ho> I believe some VGA ports need to be hacked to achieve something like:
 ho> 1) I print text, normal black bg color, lgray fg color 
 ho> 2) then without changing the colors or anything with the text layout I
 ho> just see it smoothly fading into black.

And I just found a working example with source code:
https://hornet.org/code/library/rvga01.zip

If you're curious what I meant in above requirements, visually proven, download the zip, and launch t_exp-03.exe that shows the effect very well.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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