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The truth is that Adams has been so busy programming Dwarf Fortress over the last 16 years that he hasn't had time for things like graphics. Instead, he just sampled images of ASCII characters from a 30-year-old version of MS-DOS and called it a day.
DF is written in some unsanctioned messy combination of C and C++, and I work in the MSVC Express studio thing they give out for free, whatever version they are on, or maybe one back.
The truth is that Adams has been so busy programming Dwarf Fortress over the last 16 years that he hasn't had time for things like graphics. Instead, he just sampled images of ASCII characters from a 30-year-old version of MS-DOS and called it a day.
DF is written in some unsanctioned messy combination of C and C++, and I work in the MSVC Express studio thing they give out for free, whatever version they are on, or maybe one back.