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by drewzero1 1413 days ago
I've unfortunately lost many of my early projects, but I remember that younger me thought single-letter variable names were really cool. I spent a lot of time using box drawing characters to try to mimic a GUI in DOS. I was totally infatuated with "dosshell"[0] which was included with my copy of MS-DOS 5.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell
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indemnity 1412 days ago
Ha, cool! I also tried to copy Turbo Vision[1]. And unsuccessfully tried to create a library for a UI like Universal Improved Patcher[2] (you can run it in the DOS emulator).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision

[2] https://defacto2.net/f/ab1f8e4?dosspeed=auto#emulator

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