K666 VS Turbo Vision

Here is a Turbo Pascal 3.0 Autoexe Password program I wrote in 1985: https://github.com/generalram/TurboPascalDOSPassword

I'd like to get into Free Pascal and Lazarus but I am also trying to get into so many other things like Python. I worked with Procasti to do this forum software: https://github.com/orionblastar/K666 But I forgot what I learned due to my medicine and mental illness which causes a disability.

I've come a long way, but needed a break to get sane again.

> Someone took the time to rewrite [port] it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

I just now came across the following related to Turbo Vision:

> TuiCss is a library focused to create web applications using an interface based on ASCII table, like the old MS-DOS applications. ...... The base of this project is Turbo Vision Framework, but some other frameworks were also checked to introduce some features to TuiCss, like curses, ncurses, Newt, etc.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss

With FPC, you can use Free Vision, which is a supposed to be like a remake of the old Borland Turbo Vision. Alternatively for C++.

Talking about a window display from byte array sounds like windowing for a purely text based (console based) user interface, like the 1990's Borland's old Turbo Vision. There are modern ports of Turbo Vision, e.g. superquick googling found one at GitHub.

there is also a port of the "original":

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

It's been an absolute joy toying with TV after all this years for some TUI side-projects.

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

Discovered this : https://github.com/magiblot/tvision