DOS_GUI

In this project, we try to build a simple GUI for the much beloved MS DOS. Development and testing has been done in Turbo C++ running on DOS BOX environment.

This is purely a hobby project, which was done to explore the capabilities of Graphics.H and to understand the efforts put in by engineers who used to build graphical interfaces with just C/C++ back in the golden age of computers. This greatly helped me to understand how to draw and translate graphical objects mathematically :)

Year of development: 2016

Screenshots

Boot animation

Login

Home screen

Shutdown

Installation & setup:

1. Install Turbo C++
2. Clone this project and move the dos.cpp file into your BIN folder of Turbo
3. Open Turbo C++ and select dos.cpp
4. Hit compile. If you get any graphics.h related bugs while compiling, just refer the instructions that's given at the end of this readme.
5. Run.

Controls

S - select

A - move left

D - move right

Fix for graphics related issues:

Some may find graphics init. error during execution. This happens when the required files are not found inside the specified graphics directory. For this, simply change the directory to " " instead of "C:\TC\BGI". NOTE : DO THIS IF IT DOSENT WORK IN DEFAULT!