Hey, do you want us to go blind? change that awful font colour... 😁

Not possible.

Doesn't SDL have SVGALib support?

DOSBOX window is a graphic window. No way around it - even if you see just a DOSBOX command line, it is not text mode from the point of view of the host computer. So it cannot run in text mode!

Mirek

I was under the impression that by "text mode" he meant anything but X-Windows. Linux has an API called SVGAlib that is used almost universally for non-X-Windows graphics. SDL, the wrapper library that DOSBox uses for graphics, supports SVGAlib (I think), so DOSBox should too. I wouldn't know how to make it work though.

There's also an extension to SVGAlib that makes it use text modes as graphical modes (I remember someone released ttyquake, a port of Quake 1 that runs in text mode), but that's another story and it wouldn't translate the DOSBox text modes to Linux text modes.

There is nothing wrong with your logic, HunterZ, but it leads to two philosophical questions:

1) If a tree falls in the woods, and there is nobody to hear it - does it make a sound then?

2) If SDL can do graphics without X11, but nobody knows how to make it do so - can DOSBox then run without X11?

see './confiure --help' output from libsdl:

1...
2--enable-video-fbcon    use framebuffer console video driver default=yes
3--enable-video-directfb use DirectFB video driver default=no
4--enable-video-svga     use SVGAlib video driver default=no
5--enable-video-aalib    use AAlib video driver default=no
6...

The SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable is used to select the driver.