# TurboVision port?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turbovision-port/63813>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 19, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turbovision-port/63813 "2006-06-19T16:59:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MiG)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turbovision-port/63813/1 "2006-06-19T16:59:53Z")

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Hello,

has anyone ported TurboVision into Ruby? (project tvision seems to be  
dead)

I’ve found opensource C++ TVision library at

> **[Turbo Vision port to the GNU compiler and more](https://tvision.sourceforge.net/)**
>
> Turbo Vision port to the GNU compiler and more

I think it would be more usable than lowlevel Ncurses.

thank you,  
mig

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**Author:** ![MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MiG)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turbovision-port/63813/2 "2006-06-30T09:31:50Z")

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MiG wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> has anyone ported TurboVision into Ruby? (project tvision seems to be  
> dead)
> 
> I’ve found opensource C++ TVision library at  
> [http://tvision.sourceforge.net/](http://tvision.sourceforge.net/)
> 
> I think it would be more usable than lowlevel Ncurses.

Wow… I had forgot about TurboVision. I used to use  
it in Pascal in '91 or so.

Definitely not bad, and perhaps much better than curses.

Hal

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**Author:** ![MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MiG](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MiG)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turbovision-port/63813/3 "2006-06-30T18:46:56Z")

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On Monday 19 June 2006 15:57, MiG wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> has anyone ported TurboVision into Ruby? (project tvision seems to be  
> dead)

The ncurses-ruby project has the beginnings of a wrapper:  
[http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/tvision-ruby.html](http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/tvision-ruby.html)

Alex