Category : BASIC Source Code
Archive   : QBFAQR01.ZIP
Filename : CGETCLR.BAS
'Purpose : To get the colour attributes of a particular character
' Note : only works in SCREEN 0
'Input : Row% = row where character is at
' Col% = column where the character is at
'Return : Fore% = the foreground colour
' Back% = the background colour
A = SCREEN(Row%, Col%, 1)
Back% = A \ 16
Fore% = A - Back% * 16
END SUB
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/