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Turbo TUIs were easy to make. You could make them asynchronous, non-blocking, include sound, and if you were using Borland's C compiler, all of that was built-in for you.

They probably went to efforts to make it work an ancient system. But you really didn't have to.




Someone modernized Turbo Vision: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision


It’s also included with FreePascal if you prefer the Pascal flavor of Turbo Vision. It even comes with a fully featured clone of the Turbo Pascal IDE.


Turbo TUIs we're beautiful to my 13 year old self and still are to me.




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