[gcu version] strange colors in old variants? the solution is here

[ghengiz]

First things first, I'm not sure this is already known, I did a search in the old posts but found nothing about the following 'problem', so I thought I could share a simple solution to it, just in case someone else encounters it while testing an old variant on modern systems.

On my xterm-256 colors terminal, some old variants like hellband, zangband, tome 2.3.5, scthangband etc get strange colors if compiled with the default options: for example, the help text is shown in red instead of white.
After a bit of experimentation, I found that simply commenting the line

#define REDEFINE_COLORS

in main-gcu.c and recompiling solves it...

Just trying to be useful

[Therem Harth]

Thanks! Not quite a solution, as the colors display wrong in some terminals - red is still shown as bright pink for instance. But most of them are displayed right! Again, thank you.

[ghengiz]

Thanks! Not quite a solution, as the colors display wrong in some terminals - red is still shown as bright pink for instance. But most of them are displayed right! Again, thank you.

you're welcome
as for the remaining colors, have you already tried to change the color scheme of the terminal?
On my terminal "tango dark" gives the best result, YMMV

[Therem Harth]

Ah, the colors are displayed correctly in an xterm, just not in xfterminal. Thanks again.