Getting 256 colors in PowerBasic

[Russ Meyers]

How would I get the 256 colors as does the Quickbasic language. That compiler has screen 13 and has the 256 colors. What about powerbasic?

[Bob Zale]

PowerBASIC for DOS does not offer 256 color mode. I believe there are one or more third-party libraries which might be used. You could check the download and third-party sections.

Best regards,

Bob Zale
PowerBASIC Inc.

[Petr Schreiber jr]

I remember GRAV game written in Pascal/PBDOS used 256 colors even on PB side, and it ran smoothly on my 486SX25 laptop at the time.

You can download GRAV from here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/downloads/games.htm

Petr

[Mel Bishop]

IIRC (which I probably don't): The grey matter in my head seems to recall you can fill up some registers then use a CALL INTERRUPT to set colors.

It's been so long since I used PB/DOS, I may be confusing this with something else. Don't even have a clue as to where to begin looking for this.

[Scott Slater]

This would be a good place to start: http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm

[jcfuller]

There is/was a commercial package available:

http://www.zephyrsoftware.com/

James

[Russ Meyers]

Thanks everyone

Thank you every one for posting a quick response to my message.

Russ

[Buck Huffman]

You might want to look into VESA graphics modes, they allow high resolution and up
to 32-bit color modes. I wrote some routines several years back that could be useful.
you can download them here.

http://web.highland.net/~hhuffman/pbvesa.zip

have a look, they might be helpful