On conio.h under GNU/Linux or Unix, it might be mimicked with trivial functions and escape codes. I did similar stuff with TCL and some at-xy lookalike from Fo

On conio.h under GNU/Linux or Unix, it might be mimicked with trivial functions and escape codes. I did similar stuff with TCL and some at-xy lookalike from Forth or 'print at' from the old Basic. And rewritting these Basic games into C, TCL or whatever it's really fun (and you can defnitively kill the spaghetti code): https://github.com/GReaperEx/bcg https://github.com/GReaperEx/bcg You can just run BW Basic for FreeDOS, but that's no challenge...