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Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme
- wruza 2y agoTurbo Pascal theme was much better, imo. 31-colored identifiers are so DOS <4.
- VoxPelli 2y agoNext up: Make a VSCode version
- graycrow 2y agoThis reminded me of the days when I was learning to program in Turbo Pascal, which used the UI of Borland's Turbo Vision (1) framework. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
- Andrew_nenakhov 2y agoThat was the ideal UI design. You may not like it, but this is what peak user experience looks like.
- vintagedave 2y agoIf you want to use this colour scheme for C++, then C++Builder (the descendant of Turbo C) supports it! (I work for the company that makes it, btw. We just released a large upgrade of the toolchain and it's a very solid Windows 64-bit compiler.)
- argentum47 2y agoI have to check once. I haven't worked with C++ builder
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- kennu 2y agoThe blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoYes indeed. I did a quick search and it's really difficult to find images of that original color scheme. I have fond memories of long coding sessions in Turbo Pascal 3.x with the black background and green and white text. Delphi was great too and I probably spent an order of magnitude more time in Delphi, but I have fonder memories of Turbo Pascal
- wruza 2y agoI believe both early TP and TC had black backgrounds. It was much later that they became cyan/yellow on blue, because Turbo Vision [update?].
- argentum47 2y agoI will crater to your wishes.
- satiated_grue 2y agoI had a non-standard "hi res" 640x400 interlaced display on my Sperry PC that used a long-persistence phosphor to help make up for the interlacing. For many uses, it was wonderful. For white on blue text like this (which I tried because it matched my Atari 800), it gave me a headache in pretty short order.
- argentum47 2y agoI did a black one. I will experiment with the blue one. After looking at the bllue for sometime, when I look outside, I see different colors :D
- argentum47 2y agotoned down the blue
- argentum47 2y agoI think what I am gonna do is, make this a central repo, and support more of these old school themes. I am gonna take the feedbacks down here and see what i can do.
- argentum47 2y agoAdded the black stuff, more reference images would be awesome.