Showing your MiniTrue colors

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Bob Zimmerman  Tue, 13 Oct
1998 09:44:08 -0400 (EDT)

-> Now, if only someone could tell me how to change the colors on
-> the Minitruee screen, life would be perfect.

Bob:

You need a utility like Ralph Smith's freeware classic, VPT (VGA
Palette Tool). It lets you fine-tune the color of 16 different
screen elements on a Red-Green-Blue scale with over 200,000 possible
settings -- over 4 million settings in all. Color schemes are saved
to disk as tiny 49-byte files. You can have a different scheme (or
more than one) for every DOS program you have. Indispensable.

There's a copy of VPT kicking around my Web site. Grab it at
http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/vgatool.zip.

Once you have your color schemes for XyWrite and MiniTrue, it's a
simple matter to load the MiniTrue palette upon shelling out to that
program, then reloading the previous palette upon returning to Xy.

Ya see, life *is* good!


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Carl Distefano
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