![]() ![]() Interesting stuff, that DOSBox will let you run 'real' MSDOS images. ![]() Most of my stuff has been ported over to my gnu/linux boxes so I can run in DOSBox. At any rate, I do quite a bit of 8086 machine programming, and lots of DOC C and BASIC. I have Turbo Pascal, too, but don't use it. I still have two towers that boot into real DOS 6.1 (I've got both MSDOS, and PCDOS) and from there I run GWBASIC, QBASIC, MIX C, and DEBUG. ![]() I do quite a bit of 'back in the day' myself. No problema, really I totally understand. Now days, I really don't have any reason to learn new languages. Much more fun than doing stuff on a modern PC. My main system to play with is the Ominibook 430 notebook. Since I am mainly retired, I live most of my programming time in the "back in the day". (02-23-2015 12:53 AM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: (02-22-2015 10:45 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: Pascal and BASIC were great back in the day, but in a modern world Python has them both beat hands down.Īhhh - you are assuming I am living in the modern world. Python is fun, rewarding, easy to learn, easy to adapt, and has a rich library so that real world problems can be solved right way (you spend your time problem solving and less time in semantics). Pascal and BASIC were great back in the day, but in a modern world Python has them both beat hands down. There is plenty on-line to get you started, but I would also recommend Mark Summerfield's book Programing in Python 3. If you are new to Python, start with Python3. I run both in Mint ĭOSBox is better because it supports screen and sound (just like its the late 1980s all over again).Īnyway, TP runs great in these environments, and is a ton of fun (if you remember the day) however, having said that, the alternative I would recommend to anyone from the Pascal days (or the ubiquitous BASIC days) is Python. There are two very nice DOS emulators for gnu/linux. I still run TP3 in DOSBOX for really quick and dirty programs. (02-21-2015 08:44 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote: I've been a Turbo Pascal fanatic from CP/M days to today. It is supported on many platforms in addition to Windows, has a command-line interface, a Free Pascal IDE that looks just like the old text-based Turbo Pascal IDE, or the more modern Lazarus IDE. The conversion required only compiler configuration and no changes to my old source code (except when 80386 inline assembly code was used). It even works with those that used VGA graphics. Just a month ago I discovered Free Pascal and can now compile my 80+ old *.PAS programs on a 64-bit Windows 7 PC. When its 16-bit executable became obsolete on newer Windows PCs (such as when I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7) I continued using it within DOSBox. I've used Turbo Pascal 6.0 for quick programming projects since the early 1990s. Turbo Pascal has been mentioned in various posts here, so I thought the following would be worth mentioning. (02-12-2015 12:51 PM)Dieter Wrote: Unbelievable – that's exactly what I did in 1995! I also used Turbo Pascal 6.0. Your comment prompted me to resurrect my 1992 Turbo Pascal 6.0 program. ![]()
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