alt Hacker NewsWho 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
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Yeah what a joyful blast from the past! I love that whole aesthetic; the best of the DOS days IMO.
Terminal.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.
Also check out Final Cut
https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
> FINAL CUT is a powerful and lightweight C++ library for creating terminal-based applications with numerous text-based widgets.
The best of DOS, such as it was.
FWIW 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.