Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual

Chapter 8 i Displaying Color and Graphics
Screen Mode 1 has 2 palettes of 4 colors. Only 1 palette is avail-
able at a time. Color 0 is the current background color. The other
colors are:
Number Palette 0 Palette
1
1 green cyan
2 , red magenta
3 hrown white
16 Color Set has 1 palette of 16 colors available at all times.
The colors are numbered 0-15. The colors available are:
Number Color
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
black
blue
green
cyan
red
magenta
brown
gray
dark gray
light blue
light green
light cyan
light red
light magenta
yellow
white
The foreground color
is initially set to white and the background
to black. You can change these colors with the COLOR
statement.
Video Pages
BASIC sets aside memory to be used for the video display. The
amount of memory necessary depends on the screen mode you
choose. BASIC initially sets aside 16K for video memory. You
can set aside a different amount using the CLEAR statement.
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Tandy 1000 Specifications

General

Processor	Intel 8088
Processor Speed	4.77 MHz
RAM	128 KB (expandable to 640 KB)
Operating System	MS-DOS 2.11
Manufacturer	Tandy Corporation
Release Year	1984
Storage	Single or double 5.25" floppy disk drive (360 KB), optional hard drive
Sound	Tandy 3-voice sound
Ports	Parallel, Serial
Graphics	CGA (Color Graphics Adapter)
Graphics Modes	320x200, 640x200