*Banner* COLOR COMMANDS To change colors while a *Banner* is scrolling, you type a caret (^) then two hex digits as described below. To enter a caret character into a *Banner*, type in two carets (^^)! In BASIC you would say COLOR 1,0 to make blue on black, in *Banner* you would type ^01 somewhere in a line. C O L O R S: Form: ^BF : B=BACKGROUND, F=FOREGROUND. 0 BLACK 8 1 BLUE 9 Both F and B can be any number from 0-F. 2 GREEN A 3 CYAN B Values over 7 in BACKGROUND will create 4 RED C flashing. 5 MAGENTA D 6 BROWN E Values over 7 in FOREGROUND make an 7 WHITE F intensified version of the first 0-7. *BANNER* DOT COMMANDS. The way you change from full-screen mode to scrolling mode or pause the display is with *BANNER* dot commands. This means that a dot is the FIRST character on the line. *BANNER* text cannot be mixed with dot commands, but you can enter several dot commands on one line. o .B = *BANNER* mode. Screen is cleared, one line message will scroll to the left. o .W = Window mode. Message is written on full-screen. Only 30 characters fill the screen. Messages less than 30 are padded with blanks, if your line is over 30 letters, it will be chopped off. Color short- hand (^BF) commands do not add to this count, in fact, every letter could be specified a different color combination. o .WU = Thirty characters scrolled UP the screen. o .WD = Window is scrolled DOWN the screen. o .WR = Window is written across the screen to the right. o .P xxx = Pause xxx after a line. .p 2000 will pause a second. This is a single-precision value and can be most any number. o .M xx "" = Write a message in regular text on screen at line xx (9-25). If message is less than 80 letters, center it. o .C ^BF = Used to specify the color for the message in .M above. o .D xxx = Change the dots used to make up *BANNER* sized letters. Starts out CHR$(2). Can be anything from 1-254. o .L xx = Change the starting line for the *BANNER* scroll to the left routine. Starts out (line) 11. Can be 9-19. The scrolling *BANNER* can not be put at the top of the screen. o .N ^BF = Change the screen attribute in the current *BANNER* window without clearing the screen. o .S xxx = Send xxx (1-254) spaces to *BANNER*. Clear out a line. o .X "" Music with the BASICA PLAY command. is sent directly to PLAY.