Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme
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Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme
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#2Turbo Pascal theme was much better, imo. 31-colored identifiers are so DOS <4.
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#3Next up: Make a VSCode version
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#4This reminded me of the days when I was learning to program in Turbo Pascal, which used the UI of Borland's Turbo Vision (1) framework.
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#5If you want to use this colour scheme for C++, then C++Builder (the descendant of Turbo C) supports it!
(I work for the company that makes it, btw. We just released a large upgrade of the toolchain and it's a very solid Windows 64-bit compiler.)
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#7The blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.
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#8This reminded me of the days when I was learning to program in Turbo Pascal, which used the UI of Borland's Turbo Vision (1) framework. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
That was the ideal UI design. You may not like it, but this is what peak user experience looks like.
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#9The blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.
Yes indeed. I did a quick search and it's really difficult to find images of that original color scheme. I have fond memories of long coding sessions in Turbo Pascal 3.x with the black background and green and white text.
Delphi was great too and I probably spent an order of magnitude more time in Delphi, but I have fonder memories of Turbo Pascal
Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme
#10The blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.
Yes indeed. I did a quick search and it's really difficult to find images of that original color scheme. I have fond memories of long coding sessions in Turbo Pascal 3.x with the black background and green and white text. Delphi was great too and I probably spent an order of magnitude more time in Delphi, but I have fonder memories of Turbo Pascal
I believe both early TP and TC had black backgrounds. It was much later that they became cyan/yellow on blue, because Turbo Vision [update?].