Launching Apps from the Command Line

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Mon Jan 19 12:45:08 UTC 2009


Hello,

I have an old PC I'd like to convert to a old games machine for my kids.

I'd like to install Linux on it, that will boot into the command line
(console) showing a menu listing the various games with a little screen
shot. Most of the games are old DOS abandonware games I plan to run using
DOSBox, and the machine is't very strong, so I;d like to avoid installing X
altogether, if possible...

Is there an ncurses based menu program out there?

I tried Googling, but couldn't find anything useful.  Maybe there's a Linux
distro out there I could install?

Tanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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