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    Noob programmer needing help.

    Im looking to add a nice background to my DOS console program. Any other cool things would be appreciated. Thank you!

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    A non portable way to put an image inside a windows console
    http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showp...37&postcount=6

    Useful? Perhaps not. Definitely not useful as a background.

    Linux supports console backgrounds. (Also non portable obviously)
    http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/inde...n_Your_Console

    Consoles are notoriously not friendly to images... it's a console thing.

    However, you can still perform interesting things if you learn to use colors and what you call "cool things":

    http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html (non portable)

    http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ (portable)
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Thanks, ill look into all of that.

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