DOS was peak UI.

also works great on mobile.. +1

Yeah it's very nostalgic for me also. I just made a Turbo Vision UI for Claude Code.

https://github.com/runvnc/tvclaude

Raises hand!

My "cheap" little 286 had hercules mono graphics. I got that option rather than CGA for the better text resolution as I was interested in programming and such more than games. I had an "emulator" TSR that would allow many games not supporting it to work in CGA mode.

I did. We were poor and got an old IBM XT with Hercules graphics card in the early '90s from a family friend. I played the hell out of that machine and was always excited when a game supported it. It did have a CGA emulation mode, so I was able to rough it with some games.

I tried, but it was in English and I didn't speak it at the time. Also, there was an util called SimCGA that allowed me to play many other games in my humble 286.

I did have Maniac Mansion in my language, though, so I also played that.

I played SimCity on the Hercules and it wasn’t until SimCity 2000 on superVGA that I really felt it was matched.

And I kept that Hercules card running long after we were straight VGA as it could work with it at the same time (different memory area).

Not generally. But I had a friend and I remember seeing the intro of "Das Boot" and "Wolfpack" on his PC with hercules card. I remember thinking "That looks way better on our 286er"

Did too

Fond memories of Prince of Persia on the little 286 that could

I did. My XT had a Hercules card and an MDA card.