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    From The Godfather@21:1/165 to All on Fri Jun 5 09:23:18 2020
    This message is cross threaded but on a less active network .. so thought I'd give it a shot here.

    Luciano made me some killer ANSI for my BBS that display perfect using netrunner, within the mystic ART gallary, and within Pablo Draw and windows. Yet when I load mystic from a command prompt c:\mystic\mystic .. Mystic only seems to recognize the basic 8 low and 8 ice equivilant colors. Therefore, brown looks more "mustard" in color. Curious to know if there is a feature I don't have turned on, or some form of fix for this? In addition, I've
    noticed that when using a background color combined with a different
    foreground color, it at times initiates Mystic to cause that section of an
    ANSi and or Text to blink. I use pablo draw and not Tdraw as doxbox is disabling my mouse, disallowing me to multitask (learning curve, I'm sure,)
    but also because I'm more familiar with pablo these days. The pablo draw settings are not initiating blinking ansi to my knowledge.

    In any case, if anyone has the work around or advice for me on either, I'd
    love to know. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing, but wiki and docs
    do not seem to have it listed anywhere.

    TG

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to The Godfather on Fri Jun 5 20:52:26 2020
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    Luciano made me some killer ANSI for my BBS that display perfect using netrunner, within the mystic ART gallary, and within Pablo Draw and

    Are those greater than 16 colors? I think they might look okay on Mystic if you're using UTF-8, but not so much with CP437. But I don't have enough information here to say much of use.

    for this? In addition, I've noticed that when using a background color combined with a different foreground color, it at times initiates Mystic to cause that section of an ANSi and or Text to blink. I use pablo draw

    In PabloDraw, try hitting View/Use iCE Colors. If that's unselected,
    PabloDraw will show the blinking versions, which is closer to what Mystic displays by default.

    Though, honestly, I'm not really sure what iCE Colors are, as it seems like something that's more of a decision by a terminal window in how to display things, but I lack knowledge to say much of use there, too.

    That said, when I'm trying to get ANSI to look right in Mystic, I take the graphic I made elsewhere and edit it further mystic -cfg, in the Other/ANSI Editor.

    But, again, these might be more workarounds than solutions.

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  • From maskreet@21:1/114 to The Godfather on Fri Jun 5 18:06:42 2020
    On 05 Jun 2020, The Godfather said the following...

    windows. Yet when I load mystic from a command prompt c:\mystic\mystic
    .. Mystic only seems to recognize the basic 8 low and 8 ice equivilant colors. Therefore, brown looks more "mustard" in color. Curious to

    It's the command prompt window, guaranteed. I believe there's a registry fix for it somewhere.

    Yeah. Here's the post about it with them changing the colors in the command terminal:

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/updating-the-windows-console-colors/

    And here's the way to change them back (looks like it's campbell-legacy.ini):

    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-command-prompts-color-scheme-windows- 10

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to maskreet on Fri Jun 5 22:14:54 2020
    It's the command prompt window, guaranteed. I believe there's a registry fix for it somewhere.

    Yeah. Here's the post about it with them changing the colors in the command terminal:

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/updating-the-windows-console-co

    And here's the way to change them back (looks like it's campbell-legacy.ini):

    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-command-prompts-color-scheme-win 10

    Interesting .. just breifly reading the articles, it seems as if it only affected those that upgraded to windows 10, from a past version, as opposed
    to those who bought a PC with a fresh version of 10 installed. I'll dig into it though .. thanks for pointing me in a solid direction. It's baffling as netrunner, and all ANSI editors displays just fine ... just not mystic local mode from a CMD prompt. Just glad there might be a fix!

    Thanks again Maskreet!

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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to Adept on Thu Aug 13 19:20:04 2020
    Re: Re: ANSI display within Mystic Local mode
    By: Adept to The Godfather on Fri Jun 05 2020 08:52 pm

    Though, honestly, I'm not really sure what iCE Colors are, as it seems like something that's more of a decision by a terminal window in how to display things, but I lack knowledge to say much of use there, too.

    iCE color is a CGA mode where the blink/flashing-foreground attribute bit (out of 8 total attribute bits) is instead used to change the current background attribute to high-intensity (bright). Re-defining this behavior of the "blnk" display attribute is actually a gross misuse of the ANSI terminal emulation, but whatever.

    Without iCE (bright-bg) support, a terminal/console can only display 8 background colors. With iCE support, a terminal/console can display up to 16 background colors (but loses the blink ability). The foreground color palette (used to represent the pixels of each charcter cell glyph) is always 16 colors,













































































































































































    in CGA color modes (i.e. the only colors supported by ANSI.sys and ANSI BBSes).

    digital man

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Digital Man on Fri Aug 14 09:58:10 2020
    Without iCE (bright-bg) support, a terminal/console can only display 8 background colors. With iCE support, a terminal/console can display up
    to 16 background colors (but loses the blink ability). The foreground color palette (used to represent the pixels of each charcter cell glyph) is always 16 colors, in CGA color modes (i.e. the only colors supported
    by ANSI.sys and ANSI BBSes).


    Ok, sorry to hijack a post here, but I've been having an issue with
    dark grey background and ANY red foreground. The red text blinks, and
    the grey disappears where the red text begins. This is a status bar
    line witin my "last callers" login display. Is there a setting to
    enable ICE support? Or is it something within netrunner I'm doing
    wrong? You know more about this topic then I do evidently :)

    -tG

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