And yes, yours is a good question: I'm tinkering with DOSBox and Windows 3.1 just for fun. I guess I'm *not* alone in doing stuff like that... 😀

Didn't think anyone used "copy con" anymore. There are plenty of editors, including the QuickBASIC IDE. I use the DOS version of Vim - a bit slow to start up, but it's still Vim 😀

GoldStar is the "G" in LG. I (my parents) had a 286 DOS machine by them when I was little. No sound card though...

No DosFreak, I meant looking around the house for it 🙁

Found this thread, reminded me of the game, but I went looking for it and can't find it! 🙁

COTW was the first Roguelike game I played, lots of fun back in the 4th/5th/6th grade (mid 90s) Here's a better Web site for the game: http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/

Movie codecs? I wouldn't think so... Thought you were talking about 16-bit games. Vista/7 breaks old 32-bit games?

Hi, I was able to compile some of those ncurses programs, modifications were needed for pdcurses, 8x3 filenames, etc. I had to add "C:\DJGPP\LIB" to the PATH like you said, but had to link to: "-lpdc~1" instead of -lpdcurses I was able to compile (list includes non-curses games): 1. atrogue (obscure …

If you already own 3.1, you can copy the floppies to your computer and install it to DOSbox. Not sure about 95 but I remember reading a thread here where it was more complicated. You can also use Wine under Linux, it works better with older programs than newer ones.

I've always liked Dos Navigator. Recently stopped using "Dos Navigator Open Source Project" because it was always crashing, but the other day started using the original "Dos Navigator" and it works great. http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/dn/

Hi, Decided to be brave and try compiling some games ncurses games (which compile fine on Linux and Cygwin) using DJGPP's PDCurses. DJGPP works fine for non-curses programs, but I keep getting "cannot find -lpdcurses" errors. Anyone familiar with this issue? Thanks,