Category : BASIC Source Code
Archive   : QBFAQR01.ZIP
Filename : GETCLR.BAS
'From: RICH GELDREICH
'To get the original red, green, & blue color values from a VGA
'adaptor, you could use this:
Out &h3c7, Attribute
Out &h3c8, Attribute
Red=inp(&H3c9)
Green=inp(&h3c9)
Blue=inp(&h3c9)
' Where "attribute" is the color you want to inspect.
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/