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Carl Edwards

I appreciate all the hard work that has gone into this, but I am rather amused by this for a number of reasons.
When I first started programming, one of the tools I used was QuickBasic version 4.5.
There were hundreds of libraries available for it and many were for the user interface, a console user interface, since this was still in the DOS days.
To make use of colour, you had to include ANSI.SYS in the config.sys file.
This project is a reflection of what those libraries offered, back in the late 80's and early 90's.
It always amuses me how progress sometimes eats its own tail.

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artydev • Edited

There were complete ide programming,
Turbo C, Turbo Pascal...