ansi.sys for DOS text games

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I have some old Infocom interactive text-based games (remember Zork?) I
dug out yesterday and they run in a command window except they use ansi
escape codes for screen and text coloring and without ansi.sys loaded
each line of text is preceded by the ansi codes, making it a bit hard to
read.

I tried adding device=ansi.sys to config.nt but it did not work.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Steve

 

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From: "Steve N." <Steve_N@nunya.biz.nes>

| I have some old Infocom interactive text-based games (remember Zork?) I
| dug out yesterday and they run in a command window except they use ansi
| escape codes for screen and text coloring and without ansi.sys loaded
| each line of text is preceded by the ansi codes, making it a bit hard to
| read.
|
| I tried adding device=ansi.sys to config.nt but it did not work.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Thanks
| Steve

You need ANSI.COM which will load in AUTOEXEC.NT

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1656347,00.asp

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html

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I have device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys in config.nt and it works.
Stan

"Steve N." wrote:
>
> I have some old Infocom interactive text-based games (remember Zork?) I
> dug out yesterday and they run in a command window except they use ansi
> escape codes for screen and text coloring and without ansi.sys loaded
> each line of text is preceded by the ansi codes, making it a bit hard to
> read.
>
> I tried adding device=ansi.sys to config.nt but it did not work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Steve

 

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Stan Weiss wrote:
> I have device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys in config.nt and it works.
> Stan

Thank you, that worked fine.

Steve

>
> "Steve N." wrote:
>
>>I have some old Infocom interactive text-based games (remember Zork?) I
>>dug out yesterday and they run in a command window except they use ansi
>> escape codes for screen and text coloring and without ansi.sys loaded
>>each line of text is preceded by the ansi codes, making it a bit hard to
>>read.
>>
>>I tried adding device=ansi.sys to config.nt but it did not work.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Steve

 

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David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "Steve N." <Steve_N@nunya.biz.nes>
>
> | I have some old Infocom interactive text-based games (remember Zork?) I
> | dug out yesterday and they run in a command window except they use ansi
> | escape codes for screen and text coloring and without ansi.sys loaded
> | each line of text is preceded by the ansi codes, making it a bit hard to
> | read.
> |
> | I tried adding device=ansi.sys to config.nt but it did not work.
> |
> | Any ideas?
> |
> | Thanks
> | Steve
>
> You need ANSI.COM which will load in AUTOEXEC.NT
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1656347,00.asp
>
> http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html
>

Thanks for the reply but device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys in
config.nt worked fine. I left out the path first try.

Steve