[HN Gopher] A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powe...
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A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo
Vision
Author : mariuz
Score : 110 points
Date : 2025-12-17 13:41 UTC (3 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| vintagedave wrote:
| Who knew Turbo Vision was still being used -- much less updated,
| Unicode, cross platform, 24-bit color?
|
| I've been struggling around issues in .Net Terminal.GUI v2
| recently and it really made me miss the OG solid terminal UI
| library. Silly thing is back when this was a thing I didn't even
| use it at the time.
|
| I found this repo linked: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
| danparsonson wrote:
| Yeah what a joyful blast from the past! I love that whole
| aesthetic; the best of the DOS days IMO.
| badsectoracula wrote:
| FWIW Free Vision that comes with Free Pascal is also updated
| and is also based on the original Turbo Vision that Borland
| released under public domain back in the 90s. Free Vision is
| used for the text-mode IDE that comes with Free Pascal and is
| ported to almost much every supported platform.
| fuzztester wrote:
| And the Free Pascal TUI IDE is lightning fast.
| michaelsbradley wrote:
| Also check out Final Cut
|
| https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
|
| > FINAL CUT is a powerful and lightweight C++ library for
| creating terminal-based applications with numerous text-based
| widgets.
| Squarex wrote:
| it's cool, but the name sucks when there is final cut pro
| michaelsbradley wrote:
| Well, as the author says in the FAQ, he's been using the
| name Final Cut since 1991, whereas the famous video editing
| software appeared in 1999. Now, given how well-known the
| latter became, a name change would certainly be reasonable
| if he wanted to avoid confusion, improve find-ability in
| web search, etc. But, I get the impression that's not among
| his priorities, and it's his project, so...
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| Wow, even better looking than TV, using the full power of
| Unicode and a custom font. Always new it was possible but
| haven't seen it done yet.
|
| Reminds me a bit of the later versions of the old Norton DOS
| utils.
| actionfromafar wrote:
| Terminal.GUI v2 is very promising and a delight. But
| documentation was not 100% there last I used it this summer.
|
| There was always this nagging doubt - is it buggy or don't I
| understand how to use it? In the end, I finished my little
| internal tool and was happy with it. Would try again.
| esafak wrote:
| The best of DOS, such as it was.
| raphinou wrote:
| Are there any bindings for other languages than cpp?
| outofpaper wrote:
| How does usage compare to the old TWIN?
| https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
| jrm4 wrote:
| "Yo dawg.."
|
| Or is that finally a lost to time meme? :)
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| Was that the wrapper T-Mux?
| smusamashah wrote:
| This immediately looked like vtm https://github.com/directvt/vtm
|
| I don't know much about terminals but VTM was fun to play around.
| You could `ssh vtm@netxs.online` (now dead URL) and play around
| with dragable windows.
| kazinator wrote:
| screen and tmux are also terminal emulators that run in the
| terminal.
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