Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to , looking into FreeVision is proving difficult, due to the absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says "The documentation of the individual components is available directly in the sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find any documentation on this thing?
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Timothy Groves wrote 6 lines
Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to
However, looking into FreeVision is proving difficult, due to the
absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says "The
documentation of the individual components is available directly in the
sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find any
documentation on this thing?
To my knowledge, there isn't any.
FreeVision is ancient: ~30 years old, the original Turbo Vision even ~40 years. maybe you'll find some old books on it.
Michael.
Are you able to recommend a more up-to-date toolkit I can use to make a TUI?
Michael Van Canneyt wrote 20 lines
On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, Timothy Groves via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to look at
> FreeVision. However, looking into FreeVision is proving difficult,
> due to the absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says
> "The documentation of the individual components is available directly
> in the sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find
> any documentation on this thing?
To my knowledge, there isn't any.
FreeVision is ancient: ~30 years old, the original Turbo Vision even ~40
years. maybe you'll find some old books on it.
Michael.
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To my knowledge, there isn't any. FreeVision is ancient: ~30 years old, the original…
Hi
Have a look at:
GitHub.com/sechshelme/lazarus-freevision-tutorial
&
archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandTurrogrammingGuide1992_25707423
Regards Benny
ons. 19. aug. 2026 09.35 skrev Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <
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On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, Timothy Groves via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to look at FreeVision.
> However, looking into FreeVision is proving difficult, due to the
> absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says "The
> documentation of the individual components is available directly in the
> sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find any
> documentation on this thing?
To my knowledge, there isn't any.
FreeVision is ancient: ~30 years old, the original Turbo Vision even ~40
years. maybe you'll find some old books on it.
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Ooh, I remember this book! Thanks!
Benny Christensen wrote 7 lines
Hi
Have a look at:
GitHub.com/sechshelme/lazarus-freevision-tutorial
&
archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandTurrogrammingGuide1992_25707423
<http://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandTurrogrammingGuide1992_25707423>
Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to , looking into FreeVision is proving…
Timothy Groves wrote 7 lines
Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to look at
FreeVision. However, looking into FreeVision is proving difficult, due
to the absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says "The
documentation of the individual components is available directly in
the sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find any
documentation on this thing?
It's my understanding that FreeVision is effectively a clone of TurboVision, so I would think any documentation for that would work with FreeVision with little or no changes.
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I'll be completely honest with you here. I have been using free vision code with Claude code here lately and aside from a few other possibly non-related bug issues with my programs that are generated, everything else seems to be fine. I would suggest generate any code that uses free vision with an AI tool like claude, and then just work around any bugs that you see in the code afterwards. Claude AI is not an end I'll be all solution, I understand, but it is at least a starting point.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 10:40 AM Gene Buckle via fpc-pascal <
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On 8/18/2026 3:30 PM, Timothy Groves via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Since crt and video are both terrible, I decided to look at
> FreeVision. However, looking into FreeVision is proving difficult, due
> to the absolute lack of any documentation online! The wiki says "The
> documentation of the individual components is available directly in
> the sources", but that turns out to be a lie. Where can I find any
> documentation on this thing?
>
It's my understanding that FreeVision is effectively a clone of
TurboVision, so I would think any documentation for that would work with
FreeVision with little or no changes.
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
I'm not crazy, I'm plausibly off-nominal!
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
https://github.com/geneb/ScarletDME - Get it _today_!
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