QA: How to add colour and sound effects for c++ win32 console program?

How To Add Colour And Sound Effects For C++ win32 Console Program?

I'm a beginner to c++ programmer and am doind a samaal assignment. I need to add effects to the program e.g. colour font and different coloured backgrounds. Any help or advice given would be very appreciated.

Example:

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║ /* loop through the available colors */ ▲
║ for (color=1; color<=maxcolor; color++) ▒
║ { ▒
║ /* clear the screen */ ▒
║ cleardevice(); ▒
║ ▒
║ /* select a new background color */ ▒
║ setcolor(color); ▒
║ ▒
║ /* output a messsage */ ▒
║ sprintf(msg, "Color: %d", color); ▒
║ outtextxy(x, y, msg); ▒
║ getch(); ▒
║ } ■
║ ▒
║ /* clean up */ ▒
║ closegraph(); ▒
║ return 0; ▒
║ } ▒
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