can somebody point me to some good tutorials how to play some visual tricks in MS-DOS terminal via coding?
Look to the docs on DOS ANSI.SYS. You have basic color/movement/etc. functionality.
What I'm looking for is more VGA orientated than DOS thing.
I believe some VGA ports need to be hacked to achieve something like:
1) I print text, normal black bg color, lgray fg color
2) then without changing the colors or anything with the text layout I just see it smoothly fading into black.
A lot of weird tricks were done by directly accessing the BIOS directly, or the VGA card's registers.
And I just found a working example with source code: https://hornet.org/code/library/rvga01.zip
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