On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Michael R. Zucca wrote:

> At 9:21 AM -0500 2/7/02, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> >The more capable i386 console looks good -- it's white on black with green
> >and brown and a few other colors thrown in -- but I prefer black on white
> >on the Mac, too. The colors you get on the Mac are kind of a crap shoot
> >-- twenty-four bit color on my 840 AV gives me a horribly unviewable purple
> >on black -- so I'd welcome an option to nail that down.
>
> The console code is pretty simple, really. It just clears bits where its
> background and fills bits where it's supposed to paint foreground. I find
> it odd that your 24 bit mode displays purple for 0xFFFFFFF... Hmmm. An odd
> twist to 840AV hardware. Oh! Wait! Perhaps the code thinks you are in *32*
> bit mode and it's writing 0xFFFFFFFF which would be white with a full-on
> alpha channel, which on the 840 might mean "show the AV input", which,
> unless you have something hooked up to the AV input, might be purple or
> blue. Try hooking up something to your video-in and I'll bet you'll see it
> inside your text! :-) Hehe!

I had to try that -- but sadly, no. What I get lately, at millions of
colors, is some wierd looking blue with red shadows on a black
background. It doesn't matter whether there's anything hooked up to
the video or not, or whether the video was just being viewed in Adobe
Premier in Mac OS before running the Booter, or if the mac started
cold. Now I remember seeing this before, too. I've tried about every
combination, and I can't even get the purple back.

Frederick