[rescue] customizing OBP/text colors

[CLIFFORD HAIGHT]

Used the emit and it certainly made it look better in monochrome mode.
Where do you get this information, just lots of experience?    Is there a book
I should on the lookout for?
Most the time the sparcstations are running with the screen off, I just really
like amber/green phosphor displays for text information.
Video out from my sparcstation 10s don't work with my VGA to TV adapter, I'll
have to come up with something a little fancier if I want have to have this
setup.
Or I have a monochrome monitor connected to a PC connect to the SPARCstations
via COM.   This is more the direction I am going now also my PC takes awhile
to boot up, although most of the boot up time is just the start up RAM check.
> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:43:13 -0400
> From: mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] customizing OBP/text colors
>
> > When using a monochrome (green) CRT black on green just doesn't look
> > as good as green on black.
>
> > As far as I know I can change the default colors of the OS by
> > modifying the kernel on SunOS/BSD.
>
> Yes.
>
> > Can I change the default text colors  starting from OBP?
>
> If just getting it out of reverse video is enough for you, you can use
> ESC [ p and ESC [ q to switch back and forth (I forget which one is
> which - one puts it into, one takes it out of reverse video).  These
> work on the text console in SunOS and I think in NetBSD, at least the
> versions I've played with.  On at least some versions, you can do this
> in OBP as well, something like
>
> ok 1b (emit 5b (emit 70 (emit
>
> or
>
> ok 1b (emit 5b (emit 71 (emit
>
> (depending on whether you want p or q).  I'm not sure (emit is the
> right word; IIRC you can find it in "see emit" output.  (I think you
> can't use emit directly because it does things like mapping 1b (ESC) to
> 5e 5b (^[), but I'd have to test to be sure, and I'm not in a position
> to do that now).
>
> 					Mouse
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