Re: Multiple questions on MS-DOS

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

You can do all sorts of funky stuff in textmode in dos.. I wrote a 
textmode renderer once, but I doubt I can find it anymore..

This is a good place for resources..

http://www.taat.fi/tmdc/

L-28C wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> So I finally got Lua to compile under DJGPP... Now I have a few 
> questions:
>
> 1) Is there any game dev library on this platform? Can LuAllegro 
> somehow be compiled here?
>
> 2) How do you send escape sequences (like \x1b in C)?
>
> 3) [Example] How do you make command-line progress bars without ANSI? 
> I see many programs using them, however I don't know how they do it... 
> I thought "send multiple backspaces and redraw it", but that would 
> cause flicker wouldn't it?
>
> Thanks in advance!