Post #35969
2025-12-06 11:33 UTC
Replies (27)
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@steinarb@mastodon.social 2025-12-06 19:28
Wow! There was a blast from the past! Good memories, even!
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@halla@kde.social 2025-12-06 19:31
@acb neat!
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@huxley@furry.engineer 2025-12-06 19:34
@acb oh fuck yes what a throwback
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@umbraroze@tech.lgbt 2025-12-06 19:41
@acb I literally have a copy of Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS on my shelf! Happy that Turbo Vision is open source. Tomorrow: I wish all of the Borland Turbo Pascal and Turbo C/C++ compiler stuff was open source. It's MS-DOS. It's time to *let it go.* Day after tomorrow: WHY IS WORD PERFECT 5.1 STILL CLOSED SOURCE? [EDIT] Day after that: WE NEED TO OPEN SOURCE WORDSTAR. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN DEPENDS ON IT.
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@Szescstopni@circumstances.run 2025-12-06 19:46
@acb @feijoa Maybe I should call the pub that's still using the program I wrote almost 30 years ago to sell stuff and tell them upgrades are possible :)
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@Sablebadger@dice.camp 2025-12-06 19:49
@acb Ahhh, flashbacks!
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@ASegar@mastodon.social 2025-12-06 20:03
@acb So many memories…
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@Dany@mastodonsweden.se 2025-12-06 20:04
@acb Wooo! Turbo Pascal. Yeah. Also ping @LarsFosdal .
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@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org 2025-12-06 21:38
@acb the weird-ass Borland legalese in the COPYRIGHT file holds this back. Any sufficiently large company with automated license/IP compliance checking tools with spit it out, so as dependency its messy. It’s a shame because I could spend most of my development workflow in turbo vision based tools.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2025-12-06 22:43
@acb uhm, but only the CFrustFrust version, not the Pascal version? I have a GNU Pascal (gpc) waiting for that…
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@reyna@furry.engineer 2025-12-06 23:17
@acb Now this brings back memories. My first decent compiler/env was turbo pascal 6 for dos, which used TVision as well. It was quite neat for the time :)
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@Hiro@loutre.info 2025-12-07 02:06
@acb huge nostalgia hit
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@PsySal@mastodon.social 2025-12-07 02:12
@acb this is really cool
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@mwichary@mastodon.online 2025-12-07 03:21
@acb Oh shit. So many memories.
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@tmr232@mastodon.social 2025-12-07 03:27
@acb this is fantastic! TASM was such a fantastic piece of software...
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@markotway@mastodonapp.uk 2025-12-07 08:59
@acb This is the same UI used by the main risk-management platform at the world leading investment bank Goldman Sachs. Yes, really.
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@1024Bytes@masto.ai 2025-12-07 09:55
@acb that's cool.
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@perpetuum_mobile@mastodon.social 2025-12-07 10:44
@acb I loved it back in the day! Nice one!!
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@RavenLuni@furry.engineer 2025-12-07 11:45
@acb I remember coding UIs like that back in the good old days :P
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@ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io 2025-12-07 12:31
@acb I always loved this style of interface. So much so I made a similar thing for use on Arduino/microcontrollers that targeted ANSI terminals. Never got around to making it work with Unicode though, which was vaguely on my to-do list.
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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-12-07 14:50
@acb Reminds me to my first university years, when I had a PC XT with 640kb of RAM amd 30 MB of HDD, and not having Internet, the Denial of Service attack came right from the factory: MS-DoS 3.3. I programmed in Turbo Pascal and I also programmed with such a Text User Interface (TUI?) library (I think it was not Turbo Vision, but looked like that). My first experience of Ui programming. Also reminds me to MS Word of that time. Printing: 9-pin Star NL-10, each app its own printer drivers
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@cyberspice@oldbytes.space 2025-12-07 15:15
@acb @arclight Does this work with ncurses? Ie is a proper terminal library?
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@zygoon@fosstodon.org 2025-12-07 16:08
@acb this is one GUI design that transcends time and can be used in any format on any device. All while using kilobytes of RAM, having extremely clear function and great performance.
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@wpeckham@social.linux.pizza 2025-12-07 16:44
@acb I really want to port that to FreePascal and use it as an alternative to Lazarus IDE. That would be killer.
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@praetor@mstdn.social 2025-12-07 16:48
@acb Oh....Pascal was my first "real" language, and TurboPascal was just....I still love it.
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@irgendwienet@chaos.social 2025-12-08 06:48
@acb @stralau did you know it had dual monitor support back than? With one VGA and one monochrome card installed with DOS as the OS.
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@pixel@oldbytes.space 2025-12-09 01:56
@acb @Migueldeicaza MIGUEL