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Bringing Back the Turboc Colorscheme

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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

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

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

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?].

I will crater to your wishes.

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

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

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

toned down the blue

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

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.

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

Next up: Make a VSCode version

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