ansi.sys for DOS text games

[Steve N.]

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

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Steve N." <[email protected]>

| 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

 

[Stan Weiss]

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

 

[Steve N.]

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

Thank you, that worked fine.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

From: "Steve N." <[email protected]>

| 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