reverse video dos GRAPHICS.EXE

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Hi.

I have an old dos program that starts with following bat-file:

\GRAPHICS HPDEFAULT \PRINTER.PRO /PRINTBOX:A22
\program.EXE

The program comes up in full screen with black background and white text
characters/drawings.

My eys are getting old and tired and I would prefer black text on white
background. Besides, I prefer doing screen captures of screen output and
insert them into word. Saves a lot of paper. With reverse video, I can
save toner to...

My standard wkst. have winxp. Have tried with:
\GRAPHICS /R \PRINTER.PRO /PRINTBOX:A22
but that are not suffisient.

Creating a pif and loading ansi.sys does not help to.

Anyone know what to do? If the solution also works in win9x, it would be
great.

//regards rbh

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Rickard B Hansson wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have an old dos program that starts with following bat-file:
>
> \GRAPHICS HPDEFAULT \PRINTER.PRO /PRINTBOX:A22
> \program.EXE
>
> The program comes up in full screen with black background and white text
> characters/drawings.
>
> My eys are getting old and tired and I would prefer black text on white
> background. Besides, I prefer doing screen captures of screen output and
> insert them into word. Saves a lot of paper. With reverse video, I can
> save toner to...
>
> My standard wkst. have winxp. Have tried with:
> \GRAPHICS /R \PRINTER.PRO /PRINTBOX:A22
> but that are not suffisient.
>
> Creating a pif and loading ansi.sys does not help to.
>
> Anyone know what to do? If the solution also works in win9x, it would be
> great.

Perhaps you could load a new VGA palette with black and white exchanged
in the palette.

The FPMAN220 package mentioned on my Computer Tips page[1] includes both a
VGA font editor (fontman) and a palette editor (palman). The vga.com
program can load fonts,
vga font myfont.fnt
or palettes,
vga pal mypal.pal
or both,
vga font c:\utils\CTL1252.FNT pal c:\utils\bright.pal
(an actual example from one of my batch files).

Try creating a palette with black and white exchanged, load that palette,
and see if that works for you.

[1] "Nineteenth Tip: ISO-8859-1 and CP1252 fonts for DOS, DOS-boxes, and
Terminal or HyperTerminal. Bonus: Lumber Cartel Sooper Sekrit Decoder
Ring (TINLCSSDR)."
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/Tips.html#Tip019
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Rickard B Hansson wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:26:25 -0400, Norman L. DeForest wrote:
>
> >> The program comes up in full screen with black background and white text
> >> characters/drawings.
>
> >> My eys are getting old and tired and I would prefer black text on white
> >> background.
>
> > Perhaps you could load a new VGA palette with black and white exchanged
> > in the palette.
>
> > The FPMAN220 package
>
> Seems like the colours are hard coded. The program was originaley written
> for zx81 in -81...
>
> After the porting to ibm pc, the author has dropped development.
>
> Think I have to live with the dark screen.

Is the program still available? Is there a location where it can be
downloaded? Some experimentation might find something -- such as a patch
to change the default colours.

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">To what? Any suggestions?"
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