Introduction: Cool Batch Files

OK, I'm going to assume that you already have batch experience and don't need me to explain every command and every symbol and every thing that is typed. So here we have four
different batch files. If you have no experience with batching, I suggest you try this tutorial:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Batch-Tutorial-Using-Batch/

I'll just wait here.




Step 1: Color Tester

Here is the code for testing colors. It's simple and it can be pretty useful.

@echo off
:test
help color
echo ----------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo Type a color code to test colors.
echo To exit, just press the X.
set/p color=
color %color%
goto test

Step 2: Portals

In the zip. folder in the last step, I give you a portal that goes to instructables.com.
But here, I will show you a batch file that you can customize to go to multiple websites.

Here it is:

@echo off
color 0a
echo This is the site locater. Choose the # of the site you would like to go to.
echo 1= www.youtube.com
echo 2= www.facebook.com
echo 3= www.internet explorer.com
echo 4= www.firefox.com
echo 5= www.hulu.com
echo 6= www.netflix.com
echo.
set/p "number=-->"
if %number%==1 GOTO 1
if %number%==2 GOTO 2
if %number%==3 GOTO 3
if %number%==4 GOTO 4
if %number%==5 GOTO 5
if %number%==6 GOTO 6
:1
start www.youtube.com
goto end
:2
start www.facebook.com
goto end
:3
start www.internetexplorer.com
goto end
:4
start www.firefox.com
goto end
:5
start www.hulu.com
goto end
:6
start www.netflix.com
goto end
:end


You may replace the listed websites with any of your own if you want.




Step 3: Guessing Game

This is a guessing game I came up with.
I did not take some other guy's guessing game and make some changes.
This one is rather of its own design.


@echo off
color 0b
set/a one's=50
set/a two's=40
set/a three's=30
set/a four's=20
set/a five's=10
set/a six's=5
set/a seven's=1
echo Welcome to this useless two-player game in which one player picks a number
echo.
echo between 1 and 100 and the other player tries to guess it. Player 1 makes the
echo.
echo number and player 2 tries to guess it. You will be given NO hints or clues.
echo.
pause
cls
echo Enter the name for each player.
set/p "pone=Player one>"
echo.
set/p "ptwo=Player two>"
cls
goto ar
:busted
cls
echo I SAID a number between 1 and 100!
echo.
:ar
echo OK %ptwo%, look away. %pone%, type in the number and press enter.
set/p "deguess=>"
if %deguess% GTR 100 GOTO busted
cls
echo Choose a difficulty, %ptwo%:
echo.
echo (1) piece of cake-50 guesses
echo (2) easy-40 guesses
echo (3) moderate-30 guesses
echo (4) a little tricky-20 guesses
echo (5) hard-10 guesses
echo (6) insane-5 guesses
echo (7) impossible!-1 guess
echo.
echo Type the number of the difficulty you would like to play.
echo.
set/p "diff=>"
if %diff%==1 GOTO 1
if %diff%==2 GOTO 2
if %diff%==3 GOTO 3
if %diff%==4 GOTO 4
if %diff%==5 GOTO 5
if %diff%==6 GOTO 6
if %diff%==7 GOTO 7
:1
cls
goto br
:no21
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:br
echo Guess in the space below. You still have %one's% guesses.
set/p "guess41=>"
if %guess41%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a one's=%one's%-1
if %one's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no21
:2
cls
goto cr
:no22
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:cr
echo Guess in the space below. You still have %two's% guesses.
set/p "guess42=>"
if %guess42%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a two's=%two's%-1
if %two's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no22
:3
cls
goto dr
:no23
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:dr
echo Guess in the space below. You still have %three's% guesses.
set/p "guess43=>"
if %guess43%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a three's=%three's%-1
if %three's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no23
:4
cls
goto er
:no24
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:er
echo Guess in the space below. You sill have %four's% guesses.
set/p "guess44=>"
if %guess44%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a four's=%four's%-1
if %four's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no24
:5
cls
goto fr
:no25
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:fr
echo Guess in the space below. You still have %five's% guesses.
set/p "guess45=>"
if %guess45%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a five's=%five's%-1
if %five's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no25
:6
cls
goto gr
:no26
cls
echo NOPE!
echo.
:gr
echo Guess in the space below. You have %six's% guesses left.
set/p "guess46=>"
if %guess46%==%deguess% GOTO success
set/a six's=%six's%-1
if %six's%==0 GOTO failure
goto no26
:7
cls
echo Guess in the space below. You only have %seven's% guess.
set/p "guess47=>"
if %guess47%==%deguess% GOTO success
goto failure
:success
cls
echo Well done, %ptwo%! You may now exit the game.
color 0c
color 09
color 0e
goto success
:failure
cls
echo %pone%'s number was too difficult. Sorry, %ptwo%.
echo.
echo The number was %deguess%.
echo.
pause


Step 4: Timer

A simple timer with a built-in calculator.

@echo off
:menu 
color 0b
:bust
cls
echo Welcome to the timer. This timer only counts seconds.
echo.
echo Type in the amount of seconds to count. The number may range from 0 to   
echo 99,999. If you need help converting minutes into seconds, type c for a
echo caculator.
echo.
set/p "time=>"
if %time%==c GOTO calc
if %time%==C GOTO calc
if %time% GTR 99999 GOTO bust
cls
echo The time has been set! Press any key to start counting. You can stop the
echo timer by pressing any key. After stoping, the timer cannot continue.
echo.
pause
cls
color 0c
timeout %time%
echo.
echo (DING!)
echo.
pause
goto menu
:calc
cls
color 0a
echo Type the math problem below. This calculator doesn't accept decimals,
echo percents, etc. Only whole numbers.
echo.
set/p "math=>"
set/a nmath=%math%
cls
echo %math%=%nmath%
pause
cls
echo Would you like to return to the timer or use the calculator again?
echo.
echo c or C= calculator
echo t or T= timer
echo.
set/p "route=>"
if %route%==c GOTO calc
if %route%==C GOTO calc
if %route%==t GOTO menu
if %route%==T GOTO menu


P.S.
If anyone knows how, I'd like to know how to make some noise sound out when the timer
goes off. But only for a short time. I don't want to have it go on infinitely, because that would mean restarting the computer every time I use the timer.

Step 5: Download

Thanks for coming!!!
Here's the download.  

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