Oblique Strategies for MS-DOS

This project is a port of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies to MS-DOS, implemented in FreeBASIC. Oblique Strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, intended to help artists and musicians break creative blocks by providing random directives.

Upon running the program, a random Oblique Strategy will be displayed. You can press any key to generate a new strategy, and ESCAPE to get back to the CLI.

Tested on real hardware. osdos /T for text mode display.

Source code @ https://github.com/vc0tta/oblique-strategies-ms-dos

References

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