Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 03:39:28 +0000 (UTC) From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with light / dark colours in Angband and derivatives Message-ID: <slrnd78k6o.5vl.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been seeing a problem for as long as I can remember (and I'm just tonight bored enough to post about it) where with any Angband (vanilla, derivative like ZAngband or MAngband) that I play on a FreeBSD console, sometimes the light / dark part of the ncurses colour value is set incorrectly. I guess the easiest way to explain this is with a screenshot (I love vidcontrol). http://www.coitusmentis.info/angband.png shows this problem most readily. All of the races (except for Human, since it's highlighted) should be in bright white (like High-Elf and Kobold), but they're in the normal white, as you can see. What's interesting to note is that if I SSH to my system from an OpenBSD box using a local connection to the OpenBSD box (i.e. the monitor is hooked up to the OpenBSD machine modulo a KVM[1]) and start Angband, the colours work fine. It doesn't make any difference whether I use the 132x25 columns mode or 80x25 columns mode (though the latter gives me a severe case of claustrophobia), screen(1) or no screen. It hasn't been problematic in Angband (yet), but in other derivatives it can be harmful (notably Hengband). I've tried completely wiping out my configuration, and have also tried running it under another user. [1]: I was experiencing this before I obtained the KVM as well. Best Regards, Christopher Nehren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCdFDYk/lo7zvzJioRAoaiAJwKxcraTa/INqsnwxcauywD76Tp9gCfQ+ly OyaqD00ylfygLCa1emohFcs= =ts4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.
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