On Monday, 12 March 2012 at 03:30:09 UTC, Damian Ziemba wrote:
Those numbers are for Windows btw :p
It is also the way the VGA hardware works... and it is actually a really simple bitfield for a four bit color. The attributes are a ubyte like so: back_fore lrgb_lrgb where l is a bit meaning "light" or bright. That's where the colors come from: blue = 0001 == 0x01 green = 0010 == 0x02 red = 0100 == 0x04 combine them. yellow is red + green yellow = 0110 == 0x06 Bright purple is bright | red | blue: 1101 == 13 == 0x0d On the vga hardware, a "light background" meant blink.
