First post, by TheMobRules
Lately I've been playing around with DOS programming after a long long time so I'm trying to get back in the loop with a few projects.
I've been looking for a C library that allows me to do some basic text-mode UI stuff such as creating windows, displaying text in them, that sort of stuff, nothing fancy. I have found several candidates in old shareware bundles, but being shareware they usually impose some sort of limitation (such as the memory model to use when linking) that makes them annoying to use. Full registered versions are obviously almost impossible to find nowadays so I ended up discarding all of those.
I also thought of going the route of Borland TurboVision, but I'd prefer something lighter/simpler and that doesn't restrict me to C++ (yuck) or Turbo Pascal.
I'm open to suggestions if anyone here has something to recommend. Worst case scenario I'll do it myself from scratch, but I don't really want to spend a lot of time in that when I can use something that is already more mature and polished.