Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

vintagedave · 2024-10-07T08:42:15 1728290535

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.)

argentum47 · 2024-10-07T20:13:40 1728332020

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

kennu · 2024-10-07T08:48:27 1728290907

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

slowmovintarget · 2024-10-07T13:25:05 1728307505

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

wruza · 2024-10-07T14:42:04 1728312124

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?].

argentum47 · 2024-10-07T20:08:26 1728331706

I will crater to your wishes.

graycrow · 2024-10-07T08:31:27 1728289887

This 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

Andrew_nenakhov · 2024-10-07T11:38:56 1728301136

That was the ideal UI design. You may not like it, but this is what peak user experience looks like.

satiated_grue · 2024-10-07T17:21:38 1728321698

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.

argentum47 · 2024-10-08T04:36:15 1728362175

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

argentum47 · 2024-10-08T04:45:22 1728362722

toned down the blue

wruza · 2024-10-07T08:01:43 1728288103

Turbo Pascal theme was much better, imo. 31-colored identifiers are so DOS <4.

argentum47 · 2024-10-07T20:12:55 1728331975

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.

argentum47 · 2024-10-08T04:33:36 1728362016

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

VoxPelli · 2024-10-07T08:14:22 1728288862

Next up: Make a VSCode version