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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.

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Step 1What Technology do I need?

You need:

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

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Nov 19, 2011. 1:06 PMminijc says:

how do you set this as your background

Aug 9, 2011. 10:40 PMlewy95 says:

HOW DO YOU MAKE IT GO SLOW?

Apr 8, 2011. 9:55 PMzmartin says:

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

Apr 4, 2011. 9:51 PMThe nerdling says:

cool, but how do you make it go slower?

Feb 6, 2011. 10:51 AMEricTurner says:

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

Jan 5, 2011. 1:09 PMPjosker says:

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

Dec 27, 2010. 1:45 PMdent244 says:

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

Jan 1, 2008. 10:07 AMjinventive says:

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

Feb 25, 2010. 12:09 AMwhiplash says:

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

Feb 9, 2009. 2:49 PMcyrozap says:

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.

Mar 25, 2009. 4:03 PMfwjs28 says:

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

Aug 4, 2009. 3:03 PMMirror Mage says:

can you make it scroll down?

Mar 20, 2009. 11:15 PMshotbythelite says:

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!

May 27, 2009. 8:10 AMwill421 says:

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.

Apr 12, 2009. 9:20 PMKevgold says:

Can I make it a bit slower

Mar 14, 2008. 6:32 PMQwertyuioLP says:

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

Mar 25, 2009. 4:02 PMfwjs28 says:

alt+enter

Mar 20, 2009. 11:08 PMshotbythelite says:

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

Feb 9, 2009. 2:45 PMcyrozap says:

How'd you type that?

Feb 10, 2009. 12:55 AMQwertyuioLP says:

What do you mean?

Feb 10, 2009. 7:27 AMcyrozap says:

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.

Mar 26, 2008. 10:10 AMblack shark says:

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

Mar 9, 2009. 6:08 PMvince 09 says:

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

Feb 27, 2009. 1:32 PMeverywhere says:

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

Jul 30, 2008. 7:27 PMbcnr33skyline187 says:

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

Jan 22, 2009. 12:22 PMedison142 says:

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

Aug 21, 2008. 8:47 PMtimmy1234s says:

Awesome

Jul 16, 2008. 3:48 PMMAXRIDE says:

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

Jun 22, 2008. 4:43 PMxonos says:

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

Feb 15, 2008. 7:39 PMFunkyGL says:

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?

May 25, 2008. 10:55 AMfwjs28 says:

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

Feb 29, 2008. 11:22 AMzach112 says:

take off .txt

Nov 18, 2007. 7:40 PMtadfad says:

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

May 17, 2008. 9:02 PMmarkomo531161 says:

WEAR DO YOU PUT IT?

Nov 18, 2007. 8:51 PMatombomb1945 says:

Where do you stick this into the program at?

Nov 19, 2007. 4:31 AMtadfad says:

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

Mar 22, 2008. 10:32 PMarhodes18 says:

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?

Mar 23, 2008. 2:31 PMtadfad says:

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)

Feb 9, 2009. 2:45 PMcyrozap says:

same outcome as dariel24.