Added the black stuff, more reference images would be awesome.
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.
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
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.
Turbo Pascal theme was much better, imo. 31-colored identifiers are so DOS <4.
Next up: Make a VSCode version