So, you want to create a falling matrix in notepad to impress your friends, right? Or maybe you want to record it and turn it into a sweet video intro, or a screensaver! The falling matrix code effect in notepad is extremely easy to do, and the resulting show is fantastic! So, here’s how to make the falling matrix code in notepad.
First, you want to open up notepad and type up these lines of code:
@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start
Now, save this as a .bat file and run it! It’s as easy as that!
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thevishnuman
May 29, 2010
i dont know y but this aint workin
mike
June 26, 2010
it wont work for me i typed it like 30 times and it opens for a moment then immeditally closes could you help me at all i know i have no blocks becouse everything elts works just fine but this code.
brayden
July 11, 2010
you are suppost to save it as matrix .bat try that
Ashleigh♥
July 19, 2010
save it as matrix.bat
**note** before saving select ALL FILES from the drop down menu.
Hopefully this helps 🙂
josh
August 8, 2010
THIS AIN’T WORKING PLZ HELP
peter poortman
September 23, 2010
you just must tjek everything i had it to but i find the problem if the program (cmd) automaticly closes then you have to tjek ifyou have @goto start writen in your notepad this whas my problem if you dont have it he will only make one line
srry for my bad english:P
nicholas
September 28, 2010
do you have spaces between each sentence?
Ellen
November 12, 2010
eliminate the all # before you save
Pratyush
November 12, 2010
I know how to make it but,it quickly closes after showing a black screen,REALLY STUCK HERE,plz help
kaoskitteh
November 23, 2010
you type it exactly as it says. with spaces.
when saving, save name as
matrix .bat
select all files in the second little box. that’s it. save it to your desktop.
double click it from here and you will have your own falling number matrix.
P.S. if you want it to display specific numbers, replace random with the desired numbers. doesnt look as cool though.
kaoskitteh
November 23, 2010
anyone know how to save it as a screensaver?
SRIKANTH KV
December 4, 2010
Helpful notepad tricks. Visit
http://srikanthkabadi.blogspot.com/2010/09/microsoft-windows-notepad-tricks.html
Nathan Hasken
December 6, 2010
ummmmm in this post what do you mean by now save as .bat and run it what do you have to do to “run” it?? also i didn’t get how you made it to command prompt from notepad in your other article “awesome windows xp command prompt tricks”
Jetlir
December 26, 2010
just copy this and paste in notepad than save as anything.bat
@echo off
color 02
:start
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto start
Ishan
January 6, 2011
Hey it worke perfectly for me… thnx …
( i just had to leave a spece b/w “echo” and “%random%” and then one agn b/w evry ”%random%’
Chris Carroll
January 31, 2011
This isn’t working because it’s not the proper code… the real code is as follows:
@echo off
cls
:a
color 02
echo %random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
goto a
make sure you spell ‘color’ right, because ‘colour’ isnt recognised as a script code. also, it doesnt matter how many ‘%random%’s you do, the more, the better the effect. As well as this, make sure you dont put spaces in between the coding lines, so no putting
@echo off
cls
it should be:
@echo off
cls
Thanks 🙂
~Chris
ashley henderson
February 18, 2011
yea my computer seems to be too powerful and it looks like a motion blur, i doubt theres is a way to slow it down but correct me if i’m wrong 🙂
Chris Carroll
February 26, 2011
Make sure you have the ‘:a’ and ‘goto a’ parts so the random numbers keep looping