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Star Wars Movie In DOS

Posted By: BioTecK on Monday 23 June 2008 with 11 Comments

Today I found a very interesting thing.. You can actually watch the Star Wars movie in DOS. Yeah, all doted!  :razz: I don’t know if this works on Windows Vista, cause I still use Windows XP. Anyway here’s the “secret”:

  • Go to Start
  • Click Run
  • Type: Telnet
  • In the DOS window type the letter o
  • Then type: towel.blinkenlights.nl
  • Press Enter

Like I said, I don’t know if this works in Vista, but if you run Vista please run this and let me know if this works on Vista or not! :wink:

Now, enjoy the (dotted!) Star Wars movie!

Edit: mommyandmeboutique was so kind to leave a comment and she told me that this also works on Windows Vista. Thnx mommyandmeboutique! :D

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  • Gary R. Hess said:
    24 June 2008 at 08:38

    I saw this a while back.. it is pretty badass.

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  • Free Video said:
    24 June 2008 at 09:22

    wooww … that is really awesome :shock:

    is it full movie? I don’t have time to watch the full movie, and it does not have slidebar to fast forward :mrgreen:

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    24 June 2008 at 16:41

    2 Gary R.Hess:
    I just found out about it yesterday.. :D

    2 Free Video:
    Well, To be honest.. I haven’t watch the full movie yet.. When I found out about this the first thing I did was check if it was true and posted here! :D Going to check it out soon and I’ll let you know! ;)

  • mommyandmeboutique said:
    24 June 2008 at 20:25

    Thank you; that is so neat…. I have vista on my new computer and it worked great. Would you mind if I put just the simple statement on how to do this on my blog? Most of the people reading my blog are novice on the computer as am I. I will give you full credit and of course a link back to your site. I will wait for your permission, and of course if you prefer my not posting it I certainly understand.

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    24 June 2008 at 21:43

    Thnx for visiting and taking time to comment mommyandmeboutique! :D

    Great! I really didn’t knew if it worked on Vista, so I have edited the post with your info! :)

    Sure you can post about it on your blog, it’s fine with me! :D

  • accidental geek said:
    25 June 2008 at 06:55

    hi biotek, echoed this on my blog as well, linked back to your page. This is really cool, thanks for sharing it!

    accidental geeks last blog post..Star Wars in DOS Mode

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    25 June 2008 at 09:43

    Sure, no problem with that! :D
    It’s very cool indeed!! :D

  • Jameel said:
    28 June 2008 at 11:24

    Yeah i also saw this quite a while back , its pretty interesting to say the least :)

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    28 June 2008 at 14:41

    Yeah..It’s very cool! :D

  • Vintage Watch said:
    19 February 2009 at 13:55

    Hey very nice blog!! Man .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…

  • Star Wars Clothing said:
    20 May 2009 at 05:42

    It should work on any system that you can run telnet on, the animation is coming from the remote server.

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