Command Prompt Matrix NUMBERS

My last Instructable with the Matrix was only with the letters, but this one is a batch file that uses numbers, and looks more realistic. The real Matrix used Japanese letters and other symbols, but this one just uses numbers in different orders and sizes and it looks more realistic from my last Instructable.

It is pretty easy so lets get to it.

Step 1: What Technology do I need?

You need:

• PC with command prompt
• The notepad application
• The code I will give you

Comments

[kmanube]

what do u type in to the cmd

[linuxkid]

'cat /dev/urandom`

[minijc]

how do you set this as your background

[lewy95]

HOW DO YOU MAKE IT GO SLOW?

[zmartin]

OMG i freckin love you ,, this is the irst one i did that worked :D

[The nerdling]

cool, but how do you make it go slower?

[EricTurner]

Can you make it stop looping without exiting the program? like only loop i 5-10 times instead of continusely?

[Pjosker]

Try this on a friends computer. Perferably one who does not know that much about his&her machine.
color 0a
@echo off
:loop
cls
echo overwriting memoryspace %random%%random%%random%
goto loop

[dent244]

can i do just 0s and 1s and make it slower????

[jinventive]

This put my CPU usage up to about 100% constantly!!

[whiplash]

my windows 7 pc on 2ghz core 2 duo runs at under 30 %

[cyrozap]

LOL. What processor do you have? I have a dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2. The text goes by so fast you can't even see individual numbers.

[fwjs28]

it always throws it to 100%...i tink its b/c its a system process so it has uber high priorities...

[Mirror Mage]

can you make it scroll down?

[shotbythelite]

IT SCREWED UP MY SCREEN! AFTER I PRESSED ALT + ENTER! IT HAS WEIRD PURPLE AND BREEN LINES GOING UP DOWN AND ACROSS MY SCREEN! I HAVE TO RESET COMPUTER!

[will421]

God... Something like that (colorful dots instead of "WEIRD PURPLE AND BREEN LINES GOING UP DOWN" on my screen) happened when I tried to delete the LOLCATS compiler.

[Kevgold]

Can I make it a bit slower

[QwertyuioLP]

ON MY COMPUTER CMD IS FULLSCREEN CAN I GET IT BACK TO NORMAL SIZE? URGENT!!!!!

[fwjs28]

alt+enter

[shotbythelite]

Erm, it's called the windows key? Right between ctrl and alt on most keyboards...

[cyrozap]

How'd you type that?

[QwertyuioLP]

What do you mean?

[cyrozap]

If the CMD was in fullscreen and you couldn't get out, how were you able to post that comment? Oh, wait, ctrl-alt-del. Just answered my own question.

[black shark]

alt tab right click on the matrix at the bottom and right click propates and change it back

[vince 09]

is there a way to make it scroll a bit slower?

[everywhere]

i noticed that it said C:\windows\system32/cmd.exe so i edited the file a bit so it said @echo off title matrix color 0a :top echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% goto top

[bcnr33skyline187]

hit alt+enter to make it full screen, to get out hit ctrl+alt+del

[edison142]

or hit alt+enter again to exit out of full screen

[timmy1234s]

Awesome

[MAXRIDE]

Japaneese Symbols
use this link to get the Matrix-type symbols

[xonos]

remove one %ramdom% in the code to get a more contnius fow of numbers.

[FunkyGL]

when I made a new text document, and copied the code into it, i saved it as matrix.bat, and it saved as matrix.bat.txt, and not as an actual batch file, any idea what's wrong?

[fwjs28]

when it saves thee is a small drop down bar labeled .txt and when dropped down it sais all file, slect all and save as .bat

[zach112]

take off .txt

[tadfad]

If the numbers are scrolling too fast, use "sleep x.x" to slow it down. I like sleep 0.2 for a nice speed.

[markomo531161]

WEAR DO YOU PUT IT?

[atombomb1945]

Where do you stick this into the program at?

[tadfad]

Here's a slightly refined version of below: #!/bin/bash while [ true ] do echo "$RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM $RANDOM " sleep 0.1 done

[arhodes18]

I don't get what your saying here. I tried copying the whole code you put and it didn't work where do I put it?

[tadfad]

Put the above code in a text file, name that file random.sh (or your choice of filename) and make it executable using the command "chown a+x random.sh" from the command line. (assuming you're in the directory where you saved random.sh)