Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
andsoitis
36 points
4 comments
April 25, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
jgord
Supercool .. the universe of possibilities really exploded when Borland came out with Turbo Pascal compiler, Turbo C++ and TurboVision. Compiler performance was superb and the manuals were a work of art - I just wished I had kept all of mine. This is a cultural treasure.
michaelsbradley
See also Final Cut https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
lepicz
it is still very well usable - i used TV 2.0 year ago to do some prototype. i wanted (and succeeded) to create turbovision front end for LLDB debugger... you know, that would behave like Borland's Turbo Debugger. few quick notes: - blimey it was like it where i left it 199x :) you can even compile/run code from 1993 without major issues. - there's even a better internal TV editor based on scintilla, so with syntax highlighting and such. although i was trying to mod it without success, i'll have to ask author for help, probably. - there's no documentation, so you can't ask stack overflow or AI. you have to do it like in old days: learn from examples (that have bugs in them ;) and read those few books on turbo vision again and again. - manual 'layouting' is kinda annoying, some auto layout like qt would be handy - i miss splitters, but that should not be hard to implement overall - the author did very good job modernizing the library and i love it.