dos-like
schismtracker
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C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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dos-like
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Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
I’m assuming “DOS feel” means there’s no dynamic linker so the implementation has to be contained in header files?
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Writing bindings to `dos-like` for Rust: some lessons learned
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.
schismtracker
- Schism Tracker: An open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker
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MilkyTracker 1.04
For anyone familiar with ScreamTracker and ImpulseTracker from the MSDOS days, a cross-platform IT clone SchismTracker is still maintained and relatively recently transitioned from SDL1.2 to SDL2:
https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
- Should I replace SDL for sdl12-compat??
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Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
Eh, the Borland Grahics Interface (BGI) style TUIs were kind of awful. I hated the Borland Turbo C IDE in no small part because of that style TUI. It just wasted so much precious character space on TUI frames and other decorations.
More of my fond TUI memories from that era were the bespoke ones in the demo/art/music/bbs scenes. Those in many cases were still character based but seemed to make better use of the screen space and at least more aesthetically pleasing character sets.
Scream Tracker / Impulse Tracker comes to mind as one example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Screamtracker...
Which you can still enjoy today in a cross-platform clone via SchismTracker:
https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
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Before buying your next plugin, DAW or hardware, remember that Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim made Praise You on this
Schism Tracker is an SDL-based modern reenactment of IT: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker#schism-tracker
What are some alternatives?
cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
impulsetracker - Fork/clone of https://bitbucket.org/jthlim/impulsetracker // Full source code for Impulse Tracker, including sound drivers, network drivers, and some supporting documentation // IMPORTANT: This is neither the official repository (upstream at bitbucket.org appears deleted by now!) nor hosted or owned by Jeffrey Lim!
jexer - Java Text User Interface. This library implements a text-based windowing system loosely reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Vision system
textual - The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.
cursesjs - An implementation of ncurses for the web browser
Gui.cs - Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET
wajic - WebAssembly JavaScript Interface Creator
vtm - Text-based desktop environment