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Just something I threw together:
http://www.vantage.ch/downloads/ftw7_preview.zip

It's a fullscreen textmode demo viewer for Windows 7:

• Download and unpack archive.
  
• Launch ftw7_console_windowed or ftw7_console_fullscreen (640x480x32 only, GDI rendering only. It's a prototype after all).
  
• It opens an open file dialog. Point it at a textmode demo's executable.
  
• Hope it doesn't crash.
  

Tested with:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=6989
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=58419
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=28663
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56392

As pointless at it is, care has been taken to ensure it runs also on Windows XP.

this is awesome, XP > OSes lack fullscreen console mode! does it come with vista support as well? :)

Well, try it if you have access to a Vista machine. I don't. Under the hood Windows Vista and 7 don't differ very much, so chances are it will work, also considering I did test it on an XP machine, where it worked.

Considering that XP still has textmode while Vista and 7 isn't, I think the compatibility with those systems might be more important :D

Yeeessssss, of course.

I don't have Vista and won't ever use it if I can help it. What I'm saying is, it works on 7 and it works on XP, so I'm pretty sure it should work on Vista too.

I'm gonna test it out at my work box (Win7) on Monday. If it works, wahey, awesome!

Just tried it on Win7 x64 with Superkiller - fullscreen loveliness, nice work :)

Good work!

Add a blur shader! :P

No need. I'm short-sighted, all I need to do is to remove my glasses.

great work. thank you

Excellent viewer :)
Thanx.

I've just been told it works on Vista.

Feel free to add it as a prod :)

I thought I'd wait until I it has its real home to save us all the fixmebeautiful hassle.

The Vantage webserver is only a temporary solution.

Very usable tool, thanks for it.

If anybody goes and tests it with .kkapture I'd love to know about the results =)

I've dreaming about a program like this, and here it is. thanks. :)

Works on OS X 10.8 with Wine and XQuartz, cool.

Works nice here on Win7 64 bit. Only "problem" is, that every open window is moved to the second desktop - which in my case is my TV which is not always plugged in. ;)

Awesome, makes windows textmode demos actually viewable with wine (wine's console is unbearably slow)

The nondescriptive topic threw me off track, but yay \0/, just what I needed!

Works on my W7 64-bit as well, brilliant!

Yes, you see, this is a proof of concept, and especially the display part is just threwn together (640x480 fixed, GDI rendering only).

Also, thanks for trying this on WinE, something I always meant to do but never got around.

Not surprised it works on Win7 64, that's what I'm developing on. It doesn't support 64 bit processes, though. Not a problem until somebody actually goes and compiles his demos as 64 bit application, and even then it's just a matter of providing two versions of the emulation DLL.