A simple clock in big digits: (the blinking effect could be avoided if there was an echo replacement that could define screen coordinates. So for each change, the date string could be merely overwritten, avoiding the cls command) echo off color 09 setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set s1=ÛßÛ ÜÛ -ßßÛ ßßÛ Û Û Ûßß Ûßß ßßÛ ÛßÛ ÛßÛ set s2=Û Û- Û -Ûßß ßßÛ ßßÛ ßßÛ ÛßÛ-- Û ÛßÛ ßßÛ set s3=ßßß ßßß ßßß ßßß-- ß ßßß ßßß-- ß ßßß ßßß ::-----012345678901234567890123456789012345678 :loop cls echo. for /f "tokens=1" %%u in ('echo %time%') do set t=%%u if "%t:~1,1%"==":" set t=0%t% set tim=%t:~0,2%%t:~3,2%%t:~6,2% set t1=!tim:~0,1! set t2=!tim:~1,1! set t3=!tim:~2,1! set t4=!tim:~3,1! set t5=!tim:~4,1! set t6=!tim:~5,1! :line1 set /a pos=4*!t1! set x1=!s1:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t2! set x2=!s1:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t3! set x3=!s1:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t4! set x4=!s1:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t5! set x5=!s1:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t6! set x6=!s1:~%pos%,3! echo %x1% %x2% Ü %x3% %x4% Ü %x5% %x6% ::line2 set /a pos=4*!t1! set x1=!s2:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t2! set x2=!s2:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t3! set x3=!s2:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t4! set x4=!s2:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t5! set x5=!s2:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t6! set x6=!s2:~%pos%,3! echo %x1% %x2% - %x3% %x4% - %x5% %x6% :line3 set /a pos=4*!t1! set x1=!s3:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t2! set x2=!s3:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t3! set x3=!s3:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t4! set x4=!s3:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t5! set x5=!s3:~%pos%,3! set /a pos=4*!t6! set x6=!s3:~%pos%,3! echo %x1% %x2% ß %x3% %x4% ß %x5% %x6% :wait for /f "tokens=1" %%u in ('echo %time%') do set t=%%u if "%t:~1,1%"==":" set t=0%t% set tim2=%t:~0,2%%t:~3,2%%t:~6,2% if %tim2%==%tim% goto :wait goto :loop

the blinking effect could be avoided if there was an echo replacement that could define screen coordinates. You'd have to write one in C/C++. The hardest part would be the text parsing, honestly.