Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

1. dos-like

   1 10 1,182 3.8 C

   Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

   

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. cursesjs

   2 1 32 10.0 JavaScript

   Discontinued An implementation of ncurses for the web browser [GET https://api.github.com/repos/6112/cursesjs: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]

   

   > 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...

4. schismtracker

   3 7 1,522 9.6 C

   An oldschool sample-based music composition tool.

   

   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

5. jexer

   4 32 - - Java

   Java Text User Interface. This library implements a text-based windowing system loosely reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Vision system

   > That sort of aesthetic, in windows even, would be a lot of fun and quite useful

   Who's stopping you?

   Try jexer:

   https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer

6. vtm

   5 27 3,343 9.9 C++

   Text-based desktop environment

   

   > I wonder if it would be possible ...

   Check out the VTM project[1]! It feels like that's the direction they're heading. No direct affiliation; they've filed some bugs on Windows Terminal, however. :)

   [1] https://github.com/netxs-group/VTM

7. cool-retro-term

   6 165 25,762 8.2 QML

   A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

   

   For a good retro feel, I run Cool Retro Term [0] every now and then. It looks so authentic [1]!

   [0] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

   [1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a88479dfa171e61f02f831bff...

8. textual

   7 187 36,574 9.8 Python

   Lean TUI application framework for Python. Build sophisticated terminal user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

   

9. Terminal.Gui

   8 63 11,111 9.9 C#

   Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET

   

10. impulsetracker

    9 1 134 10.0 Assembly

    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!

    

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