diff --git a/src/tty/color-slang.c b/src/tty/color-slang.c
index fa3c00212..3767fc7f9 100644
--- a/src/tty/color-slang.c
+++ b/src/tty/color-slang.c
@@ -142,17 +142,7 @@ tty_color_try_alloc_pair_lib (tty_color_pair_t * mc_color_pair)
 void
 tty_setcolor (int color)
 {
-    if (!SLtt_Use_Ansi_Colors)
-        SLsmg_set_color (color);
-    else if ((color & A_BOLD) != 0) {
-        if (color == A_BOLD)
-            SLsmg_set_color (A_BOLD);
-        else
-            SLsmg_set_color ((color & (~A_BOLD)) + 8);
-    } else if (color == A_REVERSE)
-        SLsmg_set_color (A_REVERSE);
-    else
-        SLsmg_set_color (color);
+    SLsmg_set_color (color);
 }
 
 /* Set colorpair by index, don't interpret S-Lang "emulated attributes" */
diff --git a/src/tty/color-slang.h b/src/tty/color-slang.h
index 371c29d3b..7b47d11df 100644
--- a/src/tty/color-slang.h
+++ b/src/tty/color-slang.h
@@ -22,13 +22,9 @@ enum {
 /* When using Slang with color, we have all the indexes free but
  * those defined here (A_BOLD, A_UNDERLINE, A_REVERSE, A_BOLD_REVERSE)
  */
-#define A_BOLD		0x40
-#define A_UNDERLINE	0x40
-#define A_REVERSE	0x20
-#define A_BOLD_REVERSE	0x21
 
-#ifndef A_NORMAL
-#    define A_NORMAL	0x00
-#endif
+#ifndef A_BOLD
+#define A_BOLD SLTT_BOLD_MASK
+#endif /* A_BOLD */
 
 #endif /* MC_COLOR_SLANG_H */