The Oregon Delphi User Group is always looking for interesting topics to share at monthly meetings. The August, 2026 meeting highlighted five open source libraries found on Github that are specifically for Console applications. This is a collection of demo programs for four of them shown at that meeting, mostly pulled from each of the repositories (demos from the 5th, VSoft.AnsiConsole, was also shown but not pulled into this repository).

Before we got into the extensive libraries, we gently introduced the topic of Escape sequences with the simplest of demos that uses NO libraries or external units of any kind, but simply outputs strings with Writeln. This simple demo is the JustWriteln project.

QuickLib.Console

• ConsoleOut: This is a cross-platform program (Windows and Linux) that demonstrates simple color and screen placement.
• QuickConsoleMenu: Windows console app showing how you can detect function keys.

Velthuis.Console

• ConsoleDemo: Shows several functions that act like the old Borland crt unit.

tinyBigGAMES:Console

• tbg_Console: Amazing demo with several examples of colorful, "ASCII Art" in motion.

VSoft Technologies

• VSoft.System.Console Cross-platform Delphi port of the System.Console class from .NET.