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Leave the parentheses empty to run an infinite loop like for /l %%i in () do ... The loop never stops even if everything in the loop isn't executed anymore after i was 100. There is a way around using EXIT which means you have to run another cmd process. See http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.p...

I wasn't able to follow up for some time but No, it doesn't behave like that here. Ok, interesting. Perhaps it's different on different Windows versions. Did you try running it a few times in a row? Still no weird behaviour? I found that it behaves differently, usually it runs the way I described i...

For achieve major performnce you can do this: 1 - Use one set/A using comma separator instead using set/A&set/a&.... 2 - Using a for /L %%. () do for a loop instead using GOTO :label 3 - Do not execute every time cmdgfx. manage input into cmdgfx or use a parallel process. Look at work done ...

And here is the (rather massive) IF engine adventure.bat: :: Adventure : Mikael Sollenborn 2016 :: REMAINING: :: 1. Allow several items per room (advroom.dat links to items/blockers? Need separate repr. for each room to support dropping) :: 2. "Blockers" are retarded, since they block in e...

The archive also contains another, very simple, extra game. To play this one, type "adventure.bat advorg". All the game logic, descriptions etc are in the folders KOS and advorg. The one MAJOR flaw of the engine is you can only have one object per room. This is a legacy thing, from the sta...

Ok, so... this is a game I made for a friend of mine, which is about going somewhere for a sauna steam bath, after which things turn rather weird Link : http://www.mediafire.com/download/62ck41dvifjcad9/KingsOfSteam.zip https://www.dropbox.com/s/bduzz4wz3dnexka/kings.PNG?raw=1 To run, launch KingsOf...

No, I don't plan to redistribute all of the stuff from the Gotoxy archive ( http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7129 ) But I thought maybe the solitaire games could deserve their own thread. Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ho7qae0px6qd781/solitaire.zip https://www.dropbox.co...

Here is the script: :: Parallax scrolling jumping game : Mikael Sollenborn 2016 @echo off setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION cls & bg font 0 set W=240&set H=110 mode con lines=%H% cols=%W% mode con rate=31 delay=0 for /F "Tokens=1 delims==" %%v in ('set') do if not %%v==H if not %%v==...

You control Mario in this silly little game, don't run into the bad guys! Keys: SPACE or UP to jump DOWN to crouch (you can hold down the key to keep crouching) LEFT to run backwards (funny thing in this game: you can actually run away from the enemies, at least in the beginning of the game. However...

Archive updated (see top for link). Found and fixed a bug in the gxy reader.

The command shell initially consists of the (main) process "Console Window Host" and one working thread ("Windows Command Processor"; lets name this thread T1). With "start /B "" banana.bat " you create another thread (=: T2). When you press CTRL+BREAK then t...

The cmdrunner archive was updated (see top for link), and now includes a second batch file called cmdrunner_fog.bat. As the name indicates, if you run cmdrunner_fog.bat, then you get "fog" in the game, i.e. cubes in the background are less visible. This looks better IMHO, but the downside ...

Archive was updated again, following the long and somewhat confused discussion here: http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7242&p=47374 Basically, when pressing 'i' or 'j' to launch a file, com/exe/bat/cmd files runs synchronously and in the same cmd window (as before), whereas al...

aGerman: Hehe, this just gets more confusing The output is: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %1 But when I launch a html file with e.g. start "" "file.html", Chrome launches! Edit: and I never use Internet Explorer, I use either Firefox or Chrome.

I've not seen this happening with other utilities and using /b with start. Have you experienced this with any other batch script? At the top of this page(page 2) I write about some odd behaviour that is caused by running start /b with a very simple example file called banana.bat. Does it behave the...