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A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision
- vintagedave 10mo agoWho knew Turbo Vision was still being used — much less updated, Unicode, cross platform, 24-bit color? I’ve been struggling around issues in .Net Terminal.GUI v2 recently and it really made me miss the OG solid terminal UI library. Silly thing is back when this was a thing I didn’t even use it at the time. I found this repo linked: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
- danparsonson 10mo agoYeah what a joyful blast from the past! I love that whole aesthetic; the best of the DOS days IMO.
- badsectoracula 10mo agoFWIW Free Vision that comes with Free Pascal is also updated and is also based on the original Turbo Vision that Borland released under public domain back in the 90s. Free Vision is used for the text-mode IDE that comes with Free Pascal and is ported to almost much every supported platform.
- fuzztester 10mo agoAnd the Free Pascal TUI IDE is lightning fast.
- michaelsbradley 10mo agoAlso check out Final Cut https://github.com/gansm/finalcut https://github.com/gansm/finalcut > FINAL CUT is a powerful and lightweight C++ library for creating terminal-based applications with numerous text-based widgets.
- Squarex 10mo agoit's cool, but the name sucks when there is final cut pro
- michaelsbradley 10mo agoWell, as the author says in the FAQ, he's been using the name Final Cut since 1991, whereas the famous video editing software appeared in 1999. Now, given how well-known the latter became, a name change would certainly be reasonable if he wanted to avoid confusion, improve find-ability in web search, etc. But, I get the impression that's not among his priorities, and it's his project, so...
- mixmastamyk 10mo agoWow, even better looking than TV, using the full power of Unicode and a custom font. Always new it was possible but haven’t seen it done yet. Reminds me a bit of the later versions of the old Norton DOS utils.
- mixmastamyk 10mo ago^knew
- actionfromafar 10mo agoTerminal.GUI v2 is very promising and a delight. But documentation was not 100% there last I used it this summer. There was always this nagging doubt - is it buggy or don't I understand how to use it? In the end, I finished my little internal tool and was happy with it. Would try again.
- vintagedave 10mo agoI had exactly the same problem. I ended up getting a copy of its source and pointing Claude at it, which insisted there were bugs - but, its fixes were not reliable, and I wasn't even sure if its assessments were correct, or the docs were wrong or out of date, or I was simply misusing it and misleading the AI through those expectations. The docs point so strongly at using v2 instead of v1, but I just don't get the sense it's reliable, and I feel 'stuck' for a good Terminal UI library for .Net now.
- actionfromafar 10mo agoI don't think there is a perfect fit, unfortunately. The best one can do is probably call out to one of the native code libraries, but that has an impractical distribution story in .Net for many use cases.
- esafak 10mo agoThe best of DOS, such as it was.
- raphinou 10mo agoAre there any bindings for other languages than cpp?
- outofpaper 10mo agoHow does usage compare to the old TWIN? https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
- jrm4 10mo ago"Yo dawg.." Or is that finally a lost to time meme? :)
- kevin_thibedeau 10mo agoWas that the wrapper T-Mux?
- gazabbqparty 10mo ago[dead]
- smusamashah 10mo agoThis immediately looked like vtm https://github.com/directvt/vtm https://github.com/directvt/vtm I don't know much about terminals but VTM was fun to play around. You could `ssh vtm@netxs.online` (now dead URL) and play around with dragable windows.
- kazinator 10mo agoscreen and tmux are also terminal emulators that run in the terminal.
- pjmlp 10mo agoTurbo Vision as introduced in Turbo Pascal 6 (C++ version came later), was a great way to learn OOP on MS-DOS, the other being Clipper 5. Besides a nice OOP architecture, collections, iteration with callbacks, serialization, in a nice AOT compiled language with blazing compile times. Kind of tragic what we could get in 1992, in 640 KB, in a single tasking operating systems, and how bad so many "modern" frameworks happen to be by comparison, regarding the whole development experience.