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Well you have the MS-DOS era Borland tools. Someone took the time to rewrite it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision ht

Well you have the MS-DOS era Borland tools. Someone took the time to rewrite it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/magiblot/tvision Edit: Not a rewrite, but a port. See comments below.

professoretc 2y ago
TurboVision was distributed as source with some of the Borland tools, and later open-sourced, I think. So it's not a rewrite, just a port to non-DOS terminals.
- sedatk 2y ago
  Yes, that's mentioned in the README.
petepete 2y ago
IBM Topview had a certain charm too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView
em-bee 2y ago
this has very strong nostalgia vibes. that's where i learned pascal and C programming. what i would like to see is a gui layer that wraps turbo vision such that i can have apps that work in the terminal and in a GUI. ideally so that the app binaries directly work in both without any recompile or change of code.
O1111OOO 2y ago
> Someone took the time to rewrite [port] it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/magiblot/tvision I just now came across the following related to Turbo Vision: > TuiCss is a library focused to create web applications using an interface based on ASCII table, like the old MS-DOS applications. ...... The base of this project is Turbo Vision Framework, but some other frameworks were also checked to introduce some features to TuiCss, like curses, ncurses, Newt, etc. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss
browningstreet 2y ago
Qmodem was written in Turbo Pascal. It felt futuristic.
fiddlerwoaroof 2y ago
FreePascal comes with an TUI IDE in the Borland tradition (not to mention Lazarus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#/media/File:FPIDE_1.0.10_de.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#/media/File:FPIDE_...

professoretc 2y ago

TurboVision was distributed as source with some of the Borland tools, and later open-sourced, I think. So it's not a rewrite, just a port to non-DOS terminals.

sedatk 2y ago
Yes, that's mentioned in the README.

petepete 2y ago

IBM Topview had a certain charm too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView

em-bee 2y ago

this has very strong nostalgia vibes. that's where i learned pascal and C programming. what i would like to see is a gui layer that wraps turbo vision such that i can have apps that work in the terminal and in a GUI. ideally so that the app binaries directly work in both without any recompile or change of code.

O1111OOO 2y ago

> Someone took the time to rewrite [port] it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/magiblot/tvision I just now came across the following related to Turbo Vision: > TuiCss is a library focused to create web applications using an interface based on ASCII table, like the old MS-DOS applications. ...... The base of this project is Turbo Vision Framework, but some other frameworks were also checked to introduce some features to TuiCss, like curses, ncurses, Newt, etc. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss

browningstreet 2y ago

Qmodem was written in Turbo Pascal. It felt futuristic.

fiddlerwoaroof 2y ago

FreePascal comes with an TUI IDE in the Borland tradition (not to mention Lazarus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#/media/File:FPIDE_1.0.10_de.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal#/media/File:FPIDE_...