This is great! A Python wrapper would be awesome!
Modern Turbo Vision 2.0
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#42Broadly, love seeing projects like this. Entirely too much wheel reinvention going on, well, everywhere in software. Let's go back, see what worked pretty well for a long while, and just updated or rewrite it to similar specs. Any more things going on like this?
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#43Btw those text based interfaces are better than most gui/web interfaces of today.
The accountants where I work felt all the GUI interfaces sucked compared to their terminal. This led us to buy a new iSeries. It will probably last the same 15 years as the last one.
I remember one place I worked where we ripped out all of the dumb terminals on a UNIX system and replaced them with Windows 3.1 PC's with terminal emulation. Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
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#45I've already asked the question, but is there a way to embed this in a regular app ? I mean, if I want to have a "retro" like GUI but I don't want to bother my users with opening a terminal/console, can I embed this ?
The thing I'm thinking about would be to extract the alacritty render code and make it a library... But that's sure not easy to do...
Re: Modern Turbo Vision 2.0
#46Btw those text based interfaces are better than most gui/web interfaces of today.
The accountants where I work felt all the GUI interfaces sucked compared to their terminal. This led us to buy a new iSeries. It will probably last the same 15 years as the last one.
They're faster than web based apps that's for sure.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The accountants where I work felt all the GUI interfaces sucked compared to their terminal. This led us to buy a new iSeries. It will probably last the same 15 years as the last one.
I remember one place I worked where we ripped out all of the dumb terminals on a UNIX system and replaced them with Windows 3.1 PC's with terminal emulation. Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
> Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
Can't play much Solitaire or Minesweeper on a UNIX dumb terminal... The most fun you can have is flying around in a 3D-rendered filesystem.
Re: Modern Turbo Vision 2.0
#48Now we replace it with fifty million JavaScript libraries for a web interface.
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#49Turbo Vision was very fun to use and I made a good bit of money contracting on small projects in grad school in the early 90s using it. It made writing text mode guis a breeze. Borland's later Object Windows Library (OWL) was, in my opinion, much clunkier but it was done in C++ compared to Turbo Vision's Pascal. Probably the most interesting app I did was a small quality control/stats app for this book: "Quality Cont…
Turbo Vision and OWL started as Turbo Pascal frameworks and were later ported to C++.
Delphi continues this tradition, most VCL components are implemented in Delphi, even those shipped in C++ Builder.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember one place I worked where we ripped out all of the dumb terminals on a UNIX system and replaced them with Windows 3.1 PC's with terminal emulation. Productivity was noticeably down after the change.
> Productivity was noticeably down after the change. Can't play much Solitaire or Minesweeper on a UNIX dumb terminal... The most fun you can have is flying around in a 3D-rendered filesystem.
MUDs say hello.