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by cable2600·9y ago·view on hn ↗
I remember doing it with DOS and ansi.sys and then enter escape codes with prompt etc.
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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