... your screen. In the attribute byte, there are three bits for the foreground color: one bit for Red, another for Green and another for Blue. Here’s how that looks in the handy eight-bits-in-a-byte ... rapidly display information – another waste of time!) Click here for the waste-of-time info.) The text color tells the BIOS which foreground and background colors to set for the text, whether ... can substitute values for R, G and B above: 0000-0001 is 1, or 0x01, for Blue colored text 0000-0010 is 2, or 0x02, for Green colored text 0000-0100 is 4, or 0x04, for Red colored text ...