text display

[fish]

I have just gotten the old infocom games to run on my new computer.

The text display on the old computer was simple.

On the new computer the text display includes two extra lines of data at the top and the numger of moves with score.

I remember seeing somewhere a command which would remove the extra stuff but still leave the game in verbose mode.

Help !! The extra stuff on the screen is a  pain.

Thanks,

fish

[kennycr]

I had this problem as well.  I had remembered from the old days that these were ansi codes.  So, the ansi .sys had to be loaded.  If this is in XP, you will need to modify the config.nt file in systemroot\System32\Config.nt.  you can do this from cmd.exe and run edit config.nt in your systemroot\system32 dir.  you will need to add the following line:

device=%systemroot%\system32\ansi.sys and then save

it will properly display the tex without the codes showing up

Ken