How to watch star wars in cmd windows xp

To find out if you already have telnet: Type telnet at the command prompt and press Enter. If you see "Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Client" and a prompt that begins with Microsoft Telnet , you already have telnet. For now, just type a q and press Enter to quit telnet and return to the prompt.

If you see an error that says "'telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file," you must install telnet. If you already have telnet, skip to the next step. If not, here's how you can easily install it: Right-click the Windows Start menu and select Apps and Features. Scroll down and click More Windows features at the bottom. Check the box next to "Telnet Client" and click OK. Close and re-open the Command Prompt. This opens the telnet interface.

The command line will change to to. Type towel. This connects you to the server that hosts the Star Wars animation. After rolling some credits, the movie will begin! If the server hosting the Star Wars animation is down, you will receive an error when trying to connect. Sadly, the server is not up as often as it used to be. If you see an error that says "Could not open connection to the host, on port Connect failed," the server is not currently accepting connections.

Method 2. Open Terminal on your Mac. An easy way to do this is to click the Launchpad icon on the dock it's a rocketship icon on some versions of macOS, and multicolored squares on more recent versions , type terminal , and then click the Terminal icon. Install Homebrew. As of macOS Mojave, telnet is no longer installed by default.

To install it quickly and easily, you can use Homebrew. Here's how: If you're not already connected to the internet, make sure you do so before you continue. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Homebrew.

This installs telnet on your Mac. This opens telnet. This is the command to open a Telnet connection the "o" stands for "open". This opens a connection to the host that hosts the Star Wars animation. After some opening credits, the movie will begin to play. Sadly, the Star Wars animation server is down a lot more often than it used to be. You can terminate any command in the Command Prompt by pressing ctrl-C.

You can also just click on the small red X button in the top right corner of the Command Prompt window. Not Helpful 5 Helpful When you are watching Star Wars in the command prompt, you are using Telnet also known as "remote desktop connection" to connect to whoever made this computer through the internet. Not Helpful 12 Helpful I turned on Telnet, but it didn't install anything on the latest version of Windows.

What could be wrong? It might have been installed already. Try to watch Star Wars in command prompt with the settings set to on.

Not Helpful 5 Helpful 9. It accepts the command, but then a few moments later, it says connection lost. What's going on? Be sure to use port For example: "Telnet Towel. Not Helpful 31 Helpful Yes, but it is in a very small format in the top left corner of the CMD window. Not Helpful 11 Helpful Be sure that you have written: towel. Not Helpful 18 Helpful You need to have the administrator's password or access details, as you will be installing new software on your computer Telnet.

Not Helpful 5 Helpful 8. You need a steady, responsive internet connection. Not Helpful 4 Helpful 4. When I type in "telnet towel. You need to run it as administrator. Not Helpful 14 Helpful 4.

Windows prompt should come up like the pictures. Now after you click enter Now sit back and maybe get some soda and popcorn and watch Star wars " A new hope" I hope you have enjoyed my instructable S today is my Birthday!!! See also How to watch starwars with computer symbols on command prompt - except that one has somewhat nicer pictures Reply 13 years ago on Introduction.

Haha sweet my Instructables are being advertised by people :P Who ever thinks that this can only be viewed on Windows XP is either lacking in intelligence or is just a computer nubcake :. Telnet was a filesharing thing before the internet came out. It's not on the computer. When computers used to only be conected through phone lines you could get some data but not big webpages like today.

It's coming from your phoneline. Check this out. The little dot things are called quotes. If there is just one, like ', then it's a single quote. Reply 14 years ago on Introduction. I and others typically referred to them as "tick" and "double tick" - but that's been in more of a programming setting :p.