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Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#11

Post by satiated_grue » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 5:21 PM UTC

I had a non-standard "hi res" 640x400 interlaced display on my Sperry PC that used a long-persistence phosphor to help make up for the interlacing. For many uses, it was wonderful. For white on blue text like this (which I tried because it matched my Atari 800), it gave me a headache in pretty short order.

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#12

Post by argentum47 » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 8:08 PM UTC

kennu wrote: post #7

The blue background wasn't that nice IMHO. I always preferred the original Turbo Pascal with black background.

I will crater to your wishes.

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#13

Post by argentum47 » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

I think what I am gonna do is, make this a central repo, and support more of these old school themes. I am gonna take the feedbacks down here and see what i can do.

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#14

Post by argentum47 » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 8:13 PM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #5

If 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.)

I have to check once. I haven't worked with C++ builder

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#15

Post by argentum47 » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 4:33 AM UTC

Added the black stuff, more reference images would be awesome.

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#16

Post by argentum47 » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 4:36 AM UTC

satiated_grue wrote: post #11

I had a non-standard "hi res" 640x400 interlaced display on my Sperry PC that used a long-persistence phosphor to help make up for the interlacing. For many uses, it was wonderful. For white on blue text like this (which I tried because it matched my Atari 800), it gave me a headache in pretty short order.

I did a black one. I will experiment with the blue one. After looking at the bllue for sometime, when I look outside, I see different colors :D

Re: Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

#17

Post by argentum47 » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 4:45 AM UTC

satiated_grue wrote: post #11

I had a non-standard "hi res" 640x400 interlaced display on my Sperry PC that used a long-persistence phosphor to help make up for the interlacing. For many uses, it was wonderful. For white on blue text like this (which I tried because it matched my Atari 800), it gave me a headache in pretty short order.

toned down the blue