Re: Aging eyes [was RE: Xy4 Setup]

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Date sent:   	Thu, 14 Jan 1999 05:14:27 +0000
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From:      	Carl Distefano 
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Subject:    	Aging eyes [was RE: Xy4 Setup]

>You wrote

>
> As for screen colors, my advice always is to forget about changing
> colors within XyWrite and run something like Ralph Smith's VGA
> Palette Tool (VPT.EXE), which really lets you fine-tune the colors.
> You want to be able to create color schemes and switch easily among
> them depending on the ambient light -- my personal preferences are
> cream color text on a dark blue background for normal lighting, dark
> blue text on a beige background for dark rooms, black text on a
> paper white background for sunlit rooms -- and with VPT it's a
> pleasure to do. For anyone who spends long hours staring at a
> character-based screen (and that includes any non-Windows version of
> Xy), I put it right up there with UltraVision as an essential eye-
> saving tool.
>
> VPT is freeware -- grab it at http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/.
> Highly recommended (as Jerry Pournelle used to say in Byte Magazine,
> of happy memory).
>
>

But I was unable to download the file...
Could you email me this program, if not too big ?

Thanks !

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Andrea Chiozzi
boxand@xxxxxxxx
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