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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: alberonn on March 08, 2017, 07:13:09 AM

Title: ANSI BBS Screen colors
Post by: alberonn on March 08, 2017, 07:13:09 AM

I am playing with Termite--the terminal program, not TermiteTCP--and I want to properly configure the program for ANSI colors on a telnettable ANSI BBS. I cannot seem to find a simple palette for those BBS'.

Now was the classic ANSI boards just 16 colors?
What are the RGB color values for the Amiga screen palette?

Title: Re: ANSI BBS Screen colors
Post by: SamuraiCrow on March 08, 2017, 09:35:02 AM

The original 8 pen colors are simple but the high/low intensity bit isn't supported by the Amiga Console.device since it was an add-on to the standard for the PC.  I don't have Termite so I don't know if it uses a custom terminal but if it does, the other 8 colors of the 16 color palette may work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code has a table of some common RGB values used in various terminal packages.  If you're on an ECS or OCS Amiga, you'll have to divide the red green and blue components by 16 and leave off any fractional parts.