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It’s odd to me these days to see a DOS defender. I grew up on DOS, but these days would take a Linux command line over it any day. I guess you need X to do anyt
by donatj 4y ago
It’s odd to me these days to see a DOS defender. I grew up on DOS, but these days would take a Linux command line over it any day. I guess you need X to do anything graphical on Linux whereas pure dos games exist?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoYou can have framebuffer applications running without X. Not really much different than DOS other than the kernel is still mediating hardware access. Notably, you can build Qt apps that run without X.
- marttt 4y agoI use Tiny Core Linux in framebuffer mode every day. Ali G. Rudi's framebuffer tools were a huge inspiration: https://litcave.rudi.ir/ https://litcave.rudi.ir/ I've also been curious about fbui (in-kernel windowing system). Not sure how well it works with current kernels, though: https://github.com/8l/fbui https://github.com/8l/fbui Having really modest needs, I even made an effort to use FreeDOS for essential tasks (writing, PDFs, some scripting), but gave up quickly as I cannot live without a good PDF pager or (for some tasks) soundcard support. I also had trouble with constant fan noise on DOS (you'll need some hacks to maybe get around this). It is still mind blowing how fast FreeDOS (or e.g. the even more barebones SvarDOS) boots. It took literally about 2 seconds to greet myself with the good old "C:\>". Also, it is a system that fits inside the head of even an ordinary person. This is really refreshing these days.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoIn the olden days we used SDL ports of games that used a framebuffer, just the same as in DOS.
- donatj 4y agoI wonder, Does a version of Doom exist doing this? Every version of Doom I have seen for Linux over the years required X
- ghostDancer 4y agoI recall compiling several versions years ago. https://hackaday.com/2022/06/09/a-linux-distribution-for-doom/ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/09/a-linux-distribution-for-doo... including some converting it to ascii
- chungy 4y agoAny port that uses SDL (which is most of them) can be made to run like this.
- alophawen 4y agoIn the olden DOS days, we used stuff like Allegro to make games that used the framebuffer.