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Not really, because the dark yellow (not brown) is used... it's similar, but not the same in most terminals... brown as dark yellow for cga was a kind of short
by tracker1 8mo ago
Not really, because the dark yellow (not brown) is used... it's similar, but not the same in most terminals... brown as dark yellow for cga was a kind of short to a different color mix than the natural position which most terminals now use... actual screen effectiveness/brightness is different as well.
Kind of anal about this since I started with a lot of CGA and EGA displays when I was in my late teens and early 20s and relatively involved in the ANSi art scene.
Here's a related project I'm working on for playing doors in a web browser.
https://github.com/bbs-land/webterm-dos-ansi https://github.com/bbs-land/webterm-dos-ansi
- Aardwolf 8mo agoI have no idea if this was the reason behind turning the dark yellow into brown, but the brown was a much better looking color for DOS games so it was a good call They could also have done something about the two magentas though... E.g. made one of them orange?
- tracker1 8mo agoThe light red usually appeared somewhat orangy/peachy, it's generally used as flesh for ansi artworks. ex: https://16colo.rs/pack/ice-200207a/ti-war.ice https://16colo.rs/pack/ice-200207a/ti-war.ice
- tracker1 8mo agoI think it was just determined that brown would be more useful than the darker yellow in practice. Other xterm colors are also a bit off from CGA/EGA/VGA DOS colors.