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0-4
1-16
0-7
None
None
7 (lightest shade)
26 The BASIC Language
means that although the new color affects the characters you type, it does not
change the color of the drawings you do in graphic modes.
Parameter Values Default
Screen color source number
Color number
Luminance value
1. There are five color sources whose color you can change with the COLOR
command:
0 screen background color
1 foreground color
2 multicolor mode extra color 1
3 multicolor mode extra color 2
4 screen border color
You cannot use the border color (source 4) in drawing commands. Color
source 1, foreground color, determines the default color of characters and graph
ics on the screen. Changing the character color with the color keys changes only
the color of characters printed in text mode. Changing the foreground color
(source 1) changes both the default graphics drawing color and the color of
characters printed in text mode.
2. You can choose any of the colors listed on the color keys by using the
following numbers:
1 = black 9 = orange
2 = white 10 = brown
3 = red 11 = yellow-green
4 = cyan 12 = pink
5 = purple 13 = blue-green
6 = green 14 = light blue
7 = medium blue 15 = dark blue
8 = yellow 16 = light green
3. You can choose one of eight shades of a color by adding a luminance level.
To choose the darkest shade, use 0; the shades are progressively lighter, 7 being
the brightest.