Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis
<nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net>
wrote:
Hi,
Hans wrote:
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is
running in
> textmode ("ncurses-mode").
> [...] I wondered, ho
> difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS
application
> natively running in linux.
> Is DOS C and Linux C compatible, so that such thing could be
easy?
C is not a typical programming language on DOS. Similar to
ncurses it
stems from Unix. But of course there are C compilers and
*curses versions
for DOS.
Didn't Borland open-source or freeware license Turbo C++ ? The
cheaper Borland C++ ? If I remember that right and you can find
it, it might be the compiler that was used.
I see "graphics.h" being included in the C-code, which indicates Borland
Turbo C (says google). Find Borland Turbo C 2.x and install that under
FreeDos, and you should be able to compile. First step for porting to
linux would be to get rid of references to the Borland graphics library
I guess.
Another possibility is that they used the old Glockenspiel C++. That
was absorbed by Computer Assoc who I worked for from 1989 to 1993. It
may be freely available. They are called CA for several years now.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
