Getting a little more into my good ol' Borland compiler. The version I used was Borland C++ 4.52. It served me very well from the late nineties well into the two-thousands. Then 64-bit started taking over. My Borland suite had 16-bit and 32-bit compilers. Also, I don't know if the IDE was 16-bit or not, but it won't run on anything past Windows XP. (I tried!) So, I had to find a new app to code with.

Enter Geany. I discovered Geany when I was first getting into Linux. I like it. It's simple, lightweight, and good for a lot of different languages.

One of the first things I did with Geany (and what I generally do with new software), was figure out how to customize it. I started learning the color scheme 'conf' file format. Shortly after that I thought I would try to recreate the color schemes that were part of my Borland compiler IDE. Borland had four schemes (or "Syntax Highlighting" as it was called in the old software). They had: Defaults, Classic, Twilight, and Ocean. Below are are my best efforts to recreate those schemes. I was going for accuracy over readability. I tried to keep them as close to the originals as possible, even if that meant something wasn't the easiest to read. (Like strings in the "Twilight" theme. If I could guess, I have a feeling this theme was cooked-up in the old DOS days. Meaning the font most likely used was the classic DOS 80x25 text-mode font, which has larger, thicker characters, so the dark blue would stand out a lot more against the black.) To really get the original look, uncheck "Show Markers Margin", "Show Line Numbers", "Show White Space", "Show Line Endings", and "Show Indentation Guides". (They were simpler times then!)

So use these color schemes to work on the lastest "electronic mail" program that can make you millions! Because I hear there's a lot of money in the dot-com market!

You can download them here.