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486 points ethanpil | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.713s | source
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jksmith ◴[25 Jun 25 01:21 UTC] No.44372826[source]▶
This is just a "because I wanted to" project. And I get that; done a lot of those myself just to understand what the hell was going on. But the rewrite of turbo vision into FPC and compiling to half a dozen targets has been around for 20 years. Turbo vision is probably the best text mode windowing library in existence. The cool fun kicks in when you can map a whole text screen to an array like so: var Screen: Array[1..80,1..25] Of Byte Absolute $B800; // or something like that as i recall

What turbo vision brought to the game was movable, (non) modal windows. Basically a lot of rewriting that array in a loop. Pretty snappy. I made a shitload of money with that library.

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electroly ◴[25 Jun 25 03:29 UTC] No.44373408[source]▶
Every time I see a new modern TUI framework, my disappointment is the same: "Oh. This isn't as good as Turbo Vision."
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1. wenc ◴[25 Jun 25 03:48 UTC] No.44373486[source]▶
Turbo Vision was truly immersive. I used it in Turbo C and also in Paradox 4.5.

So good.

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2. ByteDrifter ◴[25 Jun 25 13:14 UTC] No.44376964[source]▶
Funny how something that ran in a tiny box on a 386 could feel more responsive than some modern GUIs. Turbo Vision really nailed the basics.
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3. kgwxd ◴[25 Jun 25 20:48 UTC] No.44381665[source]▶
I swear the characters appear on the screen before I press the keys when I'm in a real (not emulated) Linux terminal. I can't feel the lag as I'm typing this comment into a basic textarea, but it's clearly there, because a terminal feels magical.