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Nice! I think my favorite part of the original age of empires was the weird Latin sounding simlish of the voices (Pleribus!)

It'll be interesting if you can get the original VB to run. Fun fact there was actually a visual basic for dos which would let you build TUIs out of extended ASCII.

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I saw that and was quite pleased with the idea of it all working nicely in say,80x50 text mode, that I proceeded to write a similar set of subroutines.

I ended up with a pretty nice subset.

Could draw a window with fields, pop a number of them up on top of that window, if desired.

Used that to write a small pile of DOS programs which computed various manufacturing related values used in sheet metal work.

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