@phoronix so #DOS / #TurboVision...

🤯 Wow, a terminal emulator for your terminal! 🚀 Because clearly, what we needed was more terminals inside our terminals, powered by the revolutionary Turbo Vision. 🦄 Next up: a browser that lets you browse browsers, because who doesn't love a good recursive loop? 🙃
https://github.com/magiblot/tvterm #terminalemulator #TurboVision #recursiveinnovation #techhumor #futureoftech #HackerNews #ngated

A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision

https://github.com/magiblot/tvterm

#HackerNews #terminalemulator #TurboVision #commandline #development #open-source #technews

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

@lkundrak
soooo then... why isn't there a #TurboVision frontend to #NetworkManager yet? 😈
@pascaldragon @whitequark

@pascaldragon
@whitequark Turbo Vision is the most advanced and best designed TUI widget toolkit of all times! Nothing else comes even close to it. I also miss the tiny improvements that they added in TV2.0 (part of Borland Pascal 7) which AFAIK wasn't open sourced. Improvements like changing the window close symbol from [■] to [☼] while it's being clicked.

I guess one can even forgive it's pascalish `#define Uses_TWindow` quirks...

#TurboVision

Why can't I recompile #ctran for 16-bit #DOS? Because many of #FreePascal's libraries are too big to fit into 64 KiB data blocks, and won't compile no matter which memory model I use.

There is a chance I'll rewrite ctran in the future. #FreeVision (the #Borland #TurboVision "clone") with #ObjectPascal is certainly an option. I could also rewrite the lot in C or C++.

But today is not that day. For now, I'd rather just rewrite a Makefile.

#dosbox #retrocomputing

Idle thought today re #ctran:

I wonder if it's worth making a little interface using #FreeVision (the #TurboVision-compatible library that comes with #FreePascal) to display information about #Psion OO category (class definition) files?

Yes, I realise this is feature creep. But currently I'm outputting a lot of information to the terminal that the original CTRAN.EXE doesn't do. How much do I leave in as a "verbose" option, and how much to I move to a shiny TUI?

Something for another time.

@liying
#TurboVision was and still is the best TUI framework system, by a huge margin.
The love that has been put into the widget design, especially in the 2.0 release, still mesmerizes me.

The C++ port lost some of the elegance of the Pascal API, but it's still in a different world than any other TUI framework ever made. I'm looking at you, ncurses!
@nixCraft

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

#Borland #TurboVision

Turbo - An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision.
https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

#Linux #Terminal #ncurses #Scintilla #TurboVision