Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

Instant love :)

I wish somebody extended it, covering more classic themes: Turbo Pascal 5 (the blue theme like this), Turbo Pascal 3 (the black / gray / yellow theme), SuperCalc, Word for DOS, etc.

A special challenge would be fitting a theme into the 4-color CGA modes (red/green and purple/blue), complete with low-res proportional fonts and pixelation grids over pictures.

It's funny -- I spent many, many years looking at interfaces like that, designing them, developing them. I thought I'd feel some nostalgia.

But no, I'm glad those days are long gone. I never want to see any of my old dBASE, Clipper, Pascal code again...

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic.

Some suggestions:

1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly.

2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box.

3. This is mostly a "QBasic" style. There are other styles, such as:

3.1. The "Turbo Vision" style (used by the Turbo Pascal IDE itself, and many other Turbo Pascal applications using the Turbo Vision framework.)

3.2. The "Norton Commander / Nortin Utilities" style

3.3. The "DOS command line" style (command.com)

etc.

[1] https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/components.html#...

That's superb as well, but a completely different time period. More than a decade of GUI and web development happened between those two.

I can see a use case for this -> For software users who are so used to the DOS / Terminal interfaces in some old COBOL, Foxpro, dBase, Clipper, Turbo Pascal and other programming languages back then. You can switch between the shiny newer interface to using the old DOS gui-based look.

Nice work!