First post, by emendelson
This question has nothing to do with games, and I'm asking only in the hope that someone might find the question interesting enough to think about.
Over the past few years, DOSBox SVN has improved its support for monochrome mode (thank you again, ripsaw8080 and qbix), but there seems to be one remaining oddity.
In one combination of text attributes (I'm not sure exactly what it is), DOSBox displays a bright box with no text, where a real VGA card displays a bright background with black text. This affects WordPerfect for DOS 6.x especially. Here is the real monitor:
And here is DOSBox:
I've tried using WordPerfect's Text Color settings to find the specific combination of bold/underline/blocked that produces this, but none of the combinations in the Text Color settings produce this. It only shows up in dialog boxes.
I certainly can't figure out what might fix this in the code, and I hope that someone might say something like, "Oh, I know - change two numbers in line N." And, again, I understand that this has nothing to do with games, so I don't expect any official response at all.