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Curses and notcurses have their place but I still miss the simplicity of borland's conio.h implementation. Also remember that visual basic was initially written for DOS. Having a open source multiplatform text mode visual basic would be interesting.



Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut


Screenshot are cool! I remember someone had maintained the open source implementation of turbo vision. I don't hear about it for a long time, so I think it was abandoned and it had to make a few changes to workaround turbo vision unsafeness. This one seems cool!


A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision


AFAIK vbdos came after the Windows version. It was fun to play with but a little slow.




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