"dt" is what you want.
 
dt can be set to give you white text on black, and has the ADDED COOLASS
SIDE EFFECT of displaying text FASTER than the regular stock tty and it
has multiple sessions...you can run many screens, switching by pressing
apple-1, apple-2, etc. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! You also get mouse support,
with scrolling screens and standard cut-and-paste (apple-c, apple-v)
 
dt seriously rules. get it today!

Chris.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, george s. wrote:

> from NetBSD/Mac68kFAQ 6.22: "Is there any way I can get inverse video on the
> console (i.e. white on black)?"
> 
> i was wondering this as well, and remembered a tiny macos program called
> "Invert Video" <ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cfg/invert-video.hqx>
> 
> i am still a beginner and haven't started playing with dt yet so i thought
> that i would give it a try. the program runs, does it's thing, and then
> quits, so i wouldn't think it would conflict with the netbsd console video.
> running it before booting into netbsd seems to work ok.
> 
> put aliases to the Invert Video and BSD/Mac68k Booter applications in the
> Startup Items folder, add a space to the beginning of the Invert Video alias
> filename (so that it runs first,) and set BSD/Mac68k Booter to automatically
> boot.   :)
> 
> anyway, thought this would be good to pass along...
> 
> --
> george s. <gs1@mac.com>
> 
>