Over the past week I\'ve been working on a roguelike game in C++ along with a friend. Mostly too learn the language.
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Although it's a pretty big switch, you might try using an alternative console, especially if you are doing a roguelike. libtcod is a moderately popular library, written in C with C++ bindings, that provides a full color console which you can set up your own fonts and glyphs in. That should give you a lot more flexibility than being stuck with what the Windows console gives you.