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

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

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jimmaswell wrote: post #68
skissane wrote: post #64

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Microsoft Defender is really bad at false positives. I think especially the "!ml" ones – I believe that means it is using heuristics rather than a direct signature match. I have my own parental control software I wrote. (Maybe one of these days I will open source it, but not in its current state.) I wanted to use text-to-speech to send audio messages to our son ("Your time is up in five minutes!" kind of thing). Wind…

I can't speak to every situation, but all computer/video game/whatever time limits did for me was make me resent my parents and do nothing with the remaining time out of spite. I don't think I'd ever do it to my own kids.

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

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Post by baseh »

Lammy wrote: post #44
pengaru wrote: post #27

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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 scree…

Even cooler when viewed in motion https://youtu.be/XRawUKO2Qy8?t=5848

Wows thats a pretty cool track. Foregone Destruction at 1h 30m.

Thank you for the excellent link!

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

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Post by Serow225 »

arduinomancer wrote: post #3

Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs? https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTIyODU3OC83MTY0MTEyLnBuZw==/o... They have such a cozy feel, reminds me of simpler times. It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.

Not web, but another one for .NET is: https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs

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

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Post by bane »

pengaru wrote: post #27
arduinomancer wrote: post #3

Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs? https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTIyODU3OC83MTY0MTEyLnBuZw==/o... They have such a cozy feel, reminds me of simpler times. It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.

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 scree…

Impulse Tracker, which was intended as an advanced Screamtracker clone also features character map graphics to show sample data. It was kind of mind-blowing back in the day to have a text-mode DOS tool with pseudo graphics.

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

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Post by montag »

pengaru wrote: post #27
arduinomancer wrote: post #3

Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs? https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTIyODU3OC83MTY0MTEyLnBuZw==/o... They have such a cozy feel, reminds me of simpler times. It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.

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 scree…

I have to agree… I plan to re-skin https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js with this in mind.

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

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Post by kqr »

Oooh, I didn't know that technique was called vowel space rendering. I love the look of it, but, more importantly, it seems like a fairly trivial way to encode multidimensional information and make it navigable by humans. (I'm having loose ideas for e.g. representing the health state of software systems this way, letting the operators "fly" around and get an intuition for what things are like. Coupled with sound it could get fairly immersive.

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

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Post by rvbissell »

ubermonkey wrote: post #51
jmspring wrote: post #18

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The OS itself was very basic. Learning to program things like TSRs, dealing with HIGHMEM, BASIC and BASIC assemblers vs C and other tools. It was a complicated environment by the restrictions, but those restrictions when explored taught one a lot about programming. Michael Abrash's graphics programming tutorials - https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/ It was a great environment to learn in. I spent time there,…

Doing a TSR under DOS was an exercise in trying to make a system do something that it really, really, really wasn't designed to do. It was educational to try, but fundamentally not a path likely to result in anything but a painful educational experience.

I thought DESQview was pretty cool. But none of my nerd friends appreciated it that much. Until I showed them they could hide _Bards_Tale_ or _Sopwith_ from the game-hating highschool librarian with a simple hot key.

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

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

ubermonkey wrote: post #49
arduinomancer wrote: post #3

Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs? https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTIyODU3OC83MTY0MTEyLnBuZw==/o... They have such a cozy feel, reminds me of simpler times. It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that.

OH GOD NO. Man, I hated all that stuff at the time. If you're stuck in text mode, just be text. Don't try to mimic a GUI; it just looks weird and generally works poorly. A web site that imposed this sort of interface would be a site I visited ONCE.

Lmao I like how saying "no" got you downvoted. Express an opinion about a purely subjective thing that others don't like and you get downvoted. Come on HN, you can do better.

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

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Post by cerved »

anyfoo wrote: post #24
ngcc_hk wrote: post #21

Strange to see the macOS and linux option in some details but the author never tested it. Should he asked … and linux is free …

Installing Linux and seeing if it even starts is already a lot of effort, and then you've only "seen if it starts" and are very far from anything considered "tested".

WSL?
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