Change colour palette in text mode, pascal source
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Category: Source in Pascal
Program: Farbydos.pas
File exe: Farbydos.exe
Program: Farbydos.pas
File exe: Farbydos.exe
It changes the colour palette directly in the text mode of DOS withoutswitching to the graphics. The text is first demonstrated in black and then displayed. Really clever, e.g. if you don't want a user to see all the commands which your program gives and of which the display can't be prevented. For example, if you send a command to DOS which can display the well-known "Bad command or file name".
{ FARBYDOS.PAS Copyright (c) TrSek alias Zdeno Sekerak } { Program vie zmenit graficku paletu v DOSe - textovom rezime. } { Demonstruje to tak ze zhasne text a potom ho rozsvieti. } { } { Datum:01.02.1999 http://www.trsek.com } program zmena_farieb_dos; uses crt; const time=50; Type paleta=array[1..768] of byte; var pal:Paleta; i:integer; procedure jas ( n:integer; var p:paleta); var i:integer; begin Port[$3c8]:=0; for i:=1 to 768 do port[$3c9]:=p[i]*n div 63; end; procedure zp ( var p:paleta ); var i:integer; begin Port[$3c7]:=0; for i:=1 to 768 do p[i]:=Port[$3c9]; end; procedure Zasviet ( var p:paleta); var n:integer; begin for n:=0 to 63 do begin Jas(n,p); Delay(time); end; end; procedure Stmavenie ( var p:paleta); var n:integer; begin for n:=63 downto 0 do begin Jas(n,p); delay(time); end; end; begin ClrScr; for i:=1 to 25 do begin GotoXY(1,i); TextColor(i); Write('Zmena farieb v DOSe. Zhasam a rozsviecujem farby. Software by TrSek.'); end; zp(pal); Stmavenie(pal); Zasviet(pal); end.