>>39
allows for colored text and backgrounds
Probably <conio.h>, the Windows shit for doing funny console things.
>>38
That's a fair enough argument.
>>36 recommends libtcod for console development; ncurses is superior to libtcod's console emulation (which is a mess to accommodate a broken operating system without real console support). Obviously comparing a rendering library like ncurses to an entire toolkit is moot, but
>>37 wasn't attempting to make that comparison.
tl;dr DwarfFortress has made me rage.