You wouldn't have done what is being done here with ANSI.SYS. This isn't picking one of 16 colours. This is altering what those 16 colours display as: the 24-

You wouldn't have done what is being done here with ANSI.SYS. This isn't picking one of 16 colours. This is altering what those 16 colours display as: the 24-bit colours that the 16-colour palette maps to. It's all about what colour "blue" is, again. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14927398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14927398