help: compiling a project

[ghost]

Hello everybody

I try to compile old source code I found somewhere. Some info I know already about it

• original source code

https://gitlab.com/twilight-cd.com/sourcecode-menu-twilight-9

• From the readme:
  It's written in Borland Turbo C, assembler and some pascal. It contains several artifacts of earlier releases and
  several helper tools such as THF, TLDIAGS, TLMAKE, TLSETUP and HELPAPP.

• It makes the following ms-dos program:
  https://gitlab.com/twilight-cd.com/menu-binaries/-/tree/master/TWILIGHT009/MENU

Run menu.exe in DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) to see this:

The screenshot is the program that I want to compile by using Tvision (if possible).

Is there anybody who can look at it and tell me if there is a way to compile it by using Tvision?
I'm a complete beginner...
So my question: is somebody interested to look at the code and try to compile it using Visual Studio and Tvision in order to get a modern code and executable that's doing the same as the original code? If the user interface is displayed, that would be already great.
I don't know if the old code even uses Tvision (i'm a beginner)

Thanks for the help!
Lisa

[ghost]

I never used Tvision myself and also not the modern Tvision on github here (I still need to learn it).
So if somebody wants to help, I really need a Visual Studio project that I can open and just compile.
I only have very basic C language knowledge :-)

[kloczek]

Will try to have look on that.

PS. I need to restart tvision development 🤔
First I need to add some UTF-8 terminal driver.

[ghost]

Will try to have look on that.

PS. I need to restart tvision development 🤔 First I need to add some UTF-8 terminal driver.

Thank you SO MUCH!!

So to make a summary so you know exactly what I want:

• have a visual studio project I can open and compile

• use parts of the source code that just generate the user interface (I don't need anything else)

• some files are read to display the contents of the user interface (the games list, ...). I don't know if this is specific MS-DOS code or not. This I would like to have running if possible (since otherwise the user interface is empty)
  I think it are the files TL01.DAT to TL09.DAT but not sure.

• no functionality: no MS-DOS things, no functionality for buttons etc ... (those can be empty event handler functions so I can write code in there myself)

• the result should be as in the screenshot (or close to it)

Thanks for the help!
Lisa

[ghost]

@kloczek : maybe you can use this updated version of tvision?
I also asked the same question there too.

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

It seems it's not using Tvision at all (as you can read there)

[kloczek]

I saw that version and have slightly different ideas about how to approach to solve some internal legacy issue and moving to full 16bit internal color coding and handle UTF 😄

[ghost]

I saw that version and have slightly different ideas about how to approach to solve some internal legacy issue and moving to full 16bit internal color coding and handle UTF 😄

Ow ok!
It was just an idea.
As you can read my question there, the developer says this MS-DOS program does not use Tvision.
So then my question becomes: do you want to make an application that replicates the screenshot using tvision (if that's possible)?
No functionality; just the user interface :)

You use DOSBox (https://www.dosbox.com/) to run this program and see exactly what it's doing.

[kloczek]

To be honest I'm less (personally) interested to handle old DOS env and and more fully and corretly port TVIsion to modern Unixes (Linux, Solaris. BSD*).
However if soeone will be interested to integrate same adaptaions to allow still use TVision on old DOS I can promisse that I'll never say "no" 😄