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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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dleslie ◴[25 Jun 25 02:47 UTC] No.44373230[source]▶
For those curious, here is a modern port of the C++ Turbo Vision that also supports Unicode:

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

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san1927 ◴[25 Jun 25 08:29 UTC] No.44374924[source]▶
lmao is any body still using turbo cpp?
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1. nazgulsenpai ◴[25 Jun 25 17:42 UTC] No.44379927[source]▶
Core memory unlocked... When I was ~10-12, I asked my dad (who knew nothing but thought he knew everything about computers) how to make programs for Windows because I couldn't in QBasic. His answer was "with C++!". He came home with a book Learn C++ In 24 Hours that had Turbo C++ on a single 3.5" floppy disk. Naturally, that did not work, but I still had fun failing to compile every program I attempted to write.