PE> I decided to try out msged on my old Commodore PC/5
PE> (monochrome text card!), and noticed two things:

PE> Going Alt-L caused me to not be able to see the current
PE> message. Later on I experimented with different colours,
PE> but couldn't find something that I liked.

PE> Does anyone want to experiment to find the ultimate
PE> set of colours that works for both colour and monochrome
PE> screens? It would be nice if it were shipped with that.

I'm not convinced its actually possible. Particularly when
you allow for the result you can get on some laptops/notebooks.

Whats normally done is to have the system auto recognise the first
start, show the user and absolutely minimal selection of mono/color
etc. Telix is the most obvious example of that approach.

PE> P.S. BTW, this means that I am now a qualified MSDOS beta tester,
PE> at the lowest level in fact (there's nothing lower than a monochrome
PE> text card).

Fraid so. You are presumably using Hercules. MDA is lower.

--- PQWK202