Theodis wrote:

COLOR

Yeah helps to spell it right when programming :).

Spell what right? I'm not exactly sure why they called the function "COLOR". It's probably just a non-sensical arbitrary arrangement of letters. :)

That's not the QBasic help files. That's the MS-DOS help files. And it looks like you're running it with DosBox. When you run QBasic you can either press Esc or F1(I forget which) to access the help fiels.

Jon88 wrote:

That's not the QBasic help files. That's the MS-DOS help files. And it looks like you're running it with DosBox. When you run QBasic you can either press Esc or F1(I forget which) to access the help fiels.

It's Shift+F1, and, same thing happens. =/ Same as F1.
Is a text file supposed to pop-up?
Sorry for beinga nub. >_>

Jon88 wrote:

Start the windows XP command prompt, and run QBasic from there.

I can't get it to work, I give up. (I can run QBasic with the CMD prompt...)
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Thanks for helping so far, though.

Crash course in COLOR:

COLOR takes one or two arguments. The first number is the foreground colour. The second number is the background colour, and is optional.

Colours are referred to using numbers, like so:

color 0 'black
color 1 'dark blue
color 2 'dark green
color 3 'cyan (light blue)
color 4 'red
color 5 'magenta (purple)
color 6 'brown
color 7 'white/grey
color 8 'dark grey
color 9 'medium blue
color 10 'light green
color 11 'light cyan
color 12 'light red/orange
color 13 'light magenta (pink)
color 14 'yellow
color 15 'white

(List taken from this very shoddy article which I recommend you don't read.)

So to set a red foreground and pink background (my eyes, the goggles, they do nothing!) you would do this:

COLOR 4,13

To change only the foreground colour to, say, yellow, you'd do this:

COLOR 14

The foreground colour takes effect for text/graphics drawn after the COLOR statement. I think the background colour works the same way, but don't quote me on that.