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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

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Post by bananaboy »

jshaqaw wrote: post #3

Pascal will always have my heart. My first bridge outside Basic (I was stuck with a home pc so didn’t go down the assembly rabbit hole like others of my generation). Turbo Pascal’s IDE. Add it possible for a kid to learn and create in a way I never would have done if stuck with a collection of semi independent tools. for those who say just use the command line - this was 1989. DOS was not exactly today’s modern shell…

Same here! Very fond memories. I used Turbo Pascal 3.3 under CP/M on the Microbee but found it a bit hard and cumbersome to use. But when I discovered TP5 on MS-DOS I was blown away! This was coming from writing BASIC and batch files.

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Post by forinti »

nlehuen wrote: post #10

I purchased Turbo Pascal 3 for Amstrad CPC 6128 with my pocket money back in 1989(?). That was 1000 FF back then (~275€ today) so quite a big sum for a teenager. My dad took pity on me and funded 50% of it. Best investment ever! Learning Pascal after Locomotive Basic was night and day. And the speeeeeed! I could finally compute 320x200 Mandelbrot set renderings in reasonable amounts of time (few minutes IIRC). I stil…

I just looked up the price for Acornsoft ISO Pascal in 1989 and found a listing with 69 pounds, which would be 188 2026 pounds or 220 euros. It consists of 2 16KB ROMs (and a floppy version).

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Post by yardshop »

andrewshadura wrote: post #15
yardshop wrote: post #11

Earlier 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.

Thanks for the correction. I must have been on TP5 at that point and lost track of the distinction over the years.

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Post by RodgerTheGreat »

wowczarek wrote: post #18

Small 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 compat…

Sounds fascinating. Is there anywhere we can read more about this preservation effort? Does the PB-2000C have an active user community today?

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Post by yardshop »

pavlov wrote: post #12
yardshop wrote: post #11

Earlier 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 think I got that tutorial through either Compuserve, or Usenet via Delphi the information service (years before Borland Delphi). My early stepping stones to the internet!

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Post by moosedev »

pavlov wrote: post #12
yardshop wrote: post #11

Earlier 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 those tutorials as well! Around the same age, in '96 or '97, when I first got online, in the UK. And it might have been someone's "translation" of them into C, although I do recall reading the Pascal originals as well.

Namedropping another contemporary reference, I probably downloaded them from the Hornet Archive or a mirror.

They were a major step along the short but satisfying road to my first 3D starfield using Borland C++ (acquired via a magazine coverdisc). I felt so l33t.

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Post by jasonfarnon »

jgord wrote: post #27

Turbo Pascal is such an iconic and beloved product, they need to make a movie about it.

I dont know about TP specifically but I could see a Borland movie. It's weird remembering them as a legit msft competitor. But yeah, enough time has passed oral histories should be around.
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