Wait, you had working inline assembly in the old Turbo Pascal 3.0? I never knew.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics!
https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
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Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#12Wait, you had working inline assembly in the old Turbo Pascal 3.0? I never knew.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..."
Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days.
The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world.
The inefficient and expensive distribution was actually a powerful filter for content quality. Today any stupid disinformational shit goes viral around the world in two minutes.
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#13Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space. Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...
Aztec-C on the Apple II had a vi editor that ran on a 64K machine, but you had to exit it before you could run the compiler.
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#14Early versions (3?) could fit an amazing editor, assembler, compiler, debugger and whole IDE in just 120kb(!!!) of disk space. Vim looks pathetic in comparison to it...
I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote:
https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist
The distribution of Borland's Turbo Pascal v3.01A is approximately 180k.
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#15Wait, you had working inline assembly in the old Turbo Pascal 3.0? I never knew.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
This was not supported in 3.0. You could however include inline machine code, pre-assembled elsewhere or by hand.
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
This was not supported in 3.0. You could however include inline machine code, pre-assembled elsewhere or by hand.
Elsewhere like in turbo assembler
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days. The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world. The…
Friendly reminder that PC-GPE is still online!
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#18Small machines eh?
How about a Casio PB-2000C, in all its pocketable 910 kHz glory, up to 64k RAM shared between heap, stack, code and RAM filesystem. 192 x 32 LCD and a piezo buzzer. Serial and parallel ports available and a FDD. It also has a ROM card slot. And a card was developed, the only third-party ROM for this platform, by one Hans Larsson in Sweden, in the late 1980s.
A 64k ROM with:
- a mostly TP 5.5 compatible Pascal compiler, crt and friends
- inline assembly
- units, loadable libraries and all
- debugger
- full-screen editor, global search and replace, etc.
- visual file manager
- CLI with redirection and rudimentary shell scripting - variables, conditionals, arguments
While the hardware platform is somewhat available and there is a very good emulator, due to "issues", the DL-Pascal ROM is not at this time publicly available and only a chosen few have access to it. Luckily there is a preservation effort underway.
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days. The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world. The…
I read the denthor tutorials back in the day! So good! I think I used to get them via email on a bbs that had an internet gateway. It was all very clunky, just a terminal account, I think it didn’t even have slirp
Re: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days. The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world. The…
Friendly reminder that PC-GPE is still online!
Years ago I worked with Mark Feldman who put together PC-GPE! I did a bit of a double take and fanboyed a bit when he started because I had spent so much time reading it.