Has anyone gotten Steve’s old colors.exe to work with Brief? I don’t think he uses it anymore but I am kind of do tinghe retro thing sometimes. I wanted to see if I could make my code look like his. I got Brief from WinWorldPC and I have a 32-bit XP VM. I was thinking I needed to modify the c:\windows\system32\config.nt to load ANSI.sys, I can see that ANSI.SYS is loaded with mem /p command in the command prompt, but it is still not working? Just wondering if any knew the detail on that, because I’ve been trying for over an hours and I can’t seem to figure it out. I think it is doing something because the cursor jumps around but it ends up being a black box command prompt.
Old colors.exe with Brief
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I do have a copy of the colors program, but I am not sure how to configure it with Brief under XP 32-bit. I also have a FreeDOS VM where there were some problems. Anyone can get colors at the URL below. I feel like it must use the ANSI.SYS driver which under XP CMD you would have to configure that in C:\Windows\System32\Config.nt. I used DOS alot back in the mid to late 90s (I was born in 1984) but I have forgotten alot of stuff.
I am not really sure why I am bothering with this. I bought a bunch of old computers on ebay, the oldest being a 486. None of the them have working hard drives, but I put in some IDE to flash device adapters.
And Brief is at WinWorldPc including a PDF manual.
I am not really sure why I am bothering with this. I bought a bunch of old computers on ebay, the oldest being a 486. None of the them have working hard drives, but I put in some IDE to flash device adapters.
And Brief is at WinWorldPc including a PDF manual.
Well, I could not get this to work for a while, but then I noticed in that in the colors.txt it referred to the colors value as "colorspec", after googling It seemed like that is a bios thing which matched Steve's description when he told everybody about colors. I figured out a bit of it by switching the editor to C:\windows\system32\command.com. Here is a screen shot where I worked out what it is doing. the problem is that I have not quite gotten it to work with brief yet, but this is progress. Seems like I will get it.
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I got it to work a little bit, but I had to strip down the colors.ini file and start over, still not 100%
I also locks up under ms dos 6.22 in virtual box in 50 line mode, not sure why?
