   text-based games in c++
  I have been making DLLs in c++, 2d games in GM5 and jamagic, and text-based games in basic for about 9 years now and i had this idea: to make a text-based game in c++. In BASIC there are commands like ''cls'', ''peek/poke'', and ''color'' that let you manipulate the console creatively insead of just print and input stuff. I''ve been searching MSDN Library (my copy, which is old) for docs on how to do this in c++, but i just can''t find anything. Is there a header or dll or something that does this? Any help is appreciated.   "Solutions are not the answer." - Richard Nixon 
  Standard C++ will not do things like that (cin and cout are just streams of characters, and will not do anything fancier than plain i/o). You will have to look at libraries (curses does stuff like that I think). ;  Color in a consol window isn''t in the least bit standardized. Your best bet is to make it telet compatible - yes, network. But you only need to support one client - and use the very highly standardized telnet control codes. ;  Look for GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() in the MSDN.  This is a MS specific solution. -------------VenDrakeTo understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. 