ASCII/ANSI GUI book

[Jonathan Busby]

(12-01-2019 04:26 PM)ijabbott Wrote:  

(12-01-2019 10:03 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  curses and ncurses comes from the UNIX world and was not available for MS-DOS

For the record, there were ports of the curses libraries to MS-DOS, notably PCCurses, which later changed its name to PDCurses and is still alive and kicking, although its scope has broadened to other platforms such as OS/2, Windows Console, SDL 1&2, and even X11.

In my early teens, I also extensively used DJGPP and Svgalib to emulate a Unix environment in DOS, as when I was about 12 to 13 I'd use the Solaris and Irix machines at my dad's workplace when he took me along.

I remember doing a lot of graphics programming, but, I don't remember using curses.

I don't know if DJGPP came with curses but it's a possibility.

Regards,

Jonathan