From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Color Text...
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:42:01 +0200, "Stefan Viljoen"
<Stefan_Viljoen AT excite DOT com> wrote:

>Or you could just mess with the screen directly - each second byte (?) of
>80x25x16 text mode is a color byte. See
>http://home.intekom.com/rylan/prog.html for pointers on accessing screen
>memory directly - the method to access 320x200x256 VGA should work as it is
>with the text screen memory address (0x0B800 instead of 0x0A000) ?

If you don't plan on porting beyond DJGPP, I'd use conio for colored
text or ScreenUpdateLine() for ASCII art.  If you plan on porting,
use pdcurses.