I know this is a very simple thing to do, but I've not done any playing around in ASM for three years, and of course, the numbers have escaped me ><

I want a simple asm routine to change the text color in a terminal window, without switching to mode 13h. I've looked through a lot of references for int 10h, and all I've been able to do is change the border color

It's been a long time, and unfortunately, I don't have any examples. I do remember that if you send out hex to the video card using an ascii character, followed by a color assignment, followed by another ascii character, and another color assignment, you can control the foreground and background of each character that is written to the video card.

Like 'Hello World':
48 10 65 10 6C 10 6C 10 6F 10 20 10 57 10 6F 10 72 10 6C 10 64 10

I'm not sure what background/forground colors correspond to 010h, but changing this value to something that represents the colors that you want, and sending it to the video adapter should produce the results you want.

Actually, I meant running a little asm program that would turn the text color in a console window blue...i.e.

(white text here)

# ./asmcolor

(blue text here)

...so that everything the user enters afterwards is blue.

Useless, but fun