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| 758195 | 2009-03-20 22:28:00 | I want to show my grandchildren what the old computers looked like, and so I am trying to think of a way of having a black screen with green printing. I feel there must be an easy way but so far I haven't managed to come up with anything. I do still have old DOS programs for the software side of it. Any ideas? Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 758196 | 2009-03-20 22:31:00 | You probably wont be able to install DOS on your system to see it Unless you install it on an older PC, or just find a pic online |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 758197 | 2009-03-21 01:07:00 | Why not just bring up a command prompt and start typing stuff? That should be enough to horrify them. | pctek (84) | ||
| 758198 | 2009-03-21 02:36:00 | If you have Gmail there is a Theme which emulates the look you are talking about, it is called Terminal, find it in settings/themes it is the last one and looks like this: www.imagef1.net.nz |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 758199 | 2009-03-21 02:49:00 | Why not just bring up a command prompt and start typing stuff? That should be enough to horrify them. Bring up a command prompt. If you right click on the window bar, you can click "Properties". In there it lets you change the font colour and background colour - you can just change the font to green if you want. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 758200 | 2009-03-21 03:06:00 | You could adjust your monitor's colour settings :) | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 758201 | 2009-03-21 03:09:00 | Or.... load DOS 6.x onto an old hard drive, load ansi.sys into your config.sys file and put this into your autoexec.bat file PROMPT $E[1;32m$P$g$E[32m After DOS has loaded you will get a green prompt and green text. During boot up the screen text will be white though.:banana |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 758202 | 2009-03-21 03:39:00 | I want to show my grandchildren what the old computers looked likem You know - I just sold my ZX81 for $10. Buy them something like that.......:eek: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 758203 | 2009-03-21 06:36:00 | Here is yet another way to get a 'DOS' green screen from within XP..... Go to windows\system32 and open config.NT with a text editor, add this at the bottom of the file: device=%SystemRoot%\system32\ansi.sys Then open autoexec.NT with the text editor and add the prompt command to the bottom of the file: PROMPT $E[1;32m$P$G$E[32m Then open an MSDOS window by entering 'command' without the quotes in the Start-Run box. If the dos window comes up small, right click on the bar at the top, click on properties and tick full screen option. Edit: I'll get it right in a mo... type exit to exit the msdos window |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 758204 | 2009-03-21 11:51:00 | you can try turning the red and blue right down on the monitor, if you can adjust them low enough you can emulate a green screen, then open up a dosbox full screen. no brainer if you know how to navigate the monitor adjustment menu resistorhelper.no-ip.org |
williamF (115) | ||
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