cursesjs VS dos-like

> Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs?

I do. Brings back memories of Turbo-C.

> It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.

A quick search brought this old project: https://github.com/6112/cursesjs

Never tried that, however. Ncurses is what is used under Linux and other UNIX like systems to draw terminal based GUIs, and allows some pretty good graphics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

http://elmon.sourceforge.net/

https://christopherstoll.org/2015/12/29/ncurses-system-perfo...

I’m assuming “DOS feel” means there’s no dynamic linker so the implementation has to be contained in header files?

So when I had some spare time the past weekend, I decided to do something a bit different: bring to Rust an existing framework that lets you write applications which look like they are DOS applications. dos-like, made by Mattias Gustavsson, is like a small engine for writing modern applications with the look & feel of MS-DOS programs. So basically, when using this framework, we end up with applications that run on modern hardware and operating systems all the same, but with deliberate video effects and audio that bring us back to that era, including large pixels, CRT distortion, text and graphics video modes, and synthesized (Sound Blaster 16) or MIDI (Sound Blaster AWE32) music. It was written in C, mostly as a single file with some other statically linked dependencies. The project also comprises a few fun examples, such as a proof-of-concept FPS inspired by Wolfenstein 3D, a point-and-click adventure, a voxel renderer, and even a music tracker.