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Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS
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I found one of my first programs (Java,2011) on the Wayback Machine and it runs
I found some old Turbo Pascal code I wrote in the late 1980s - early 1990s and managed to compile and run it under a DOS emulator a few years back.
The code is a map editor for the Rockford ('Boulderdash') PC game. Unfortunately, the versions of Rockford in the wild, for download and online play, seem to be based on a later game engine and the map format has changed so the editor no longer works.
The code was designed to produce registered and un-registered versions, but I never released it into the wild.
If anyone has a copy of the original Rockford game version I'd love to know about it.
https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
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A 23-byte "hello, world" program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
Print out the current time in words.
A DOS .COM program ~390 bytes.
https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
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The Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
...oh and I dumped this lot a while back:
https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
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Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life
Amen to that!
Here's some Turbo Pascal and asm stuff of mine I rediscovered a while back.
https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...
I still use TP occasionally on a range of Z80 boards running CP/M:
https://github.com/linker3000/z80porter
Pico-setup
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Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life
As a mostly (ancient!) hobbyist programmer - so take my views as a bit grumpy - we seem to have developed such complex toolchains and frameworks, that the industry suffers from 'goldfish bowl' syndrome in that the IDEs and tools have grown in complexity and size to fit the complexity we've created (that's a bit recursive!).
I know it's a crude comparison, but consider the likes of installing Turbo Pascal and a few libraries ('units') from back in the day with what I had to go through to setup the vscode-based toolchain on Linux for the Raspberry Pi Pico, which required me to fudge a script: https://github.com/linker3000/Pico-setup/blob/main/pico_setu..., and I almost gave up trying to follow various instructions to get an IDE running under WSL due to various quirks and changes which made the online instructions out of date or missing key tweaks.
I even approach platformio with a degree of trepidation for fear that a bucket-load of stuff will need to be updated before the odd bit of code I've hacked together will compile this time round.
Perhaps if you've grown up during the mainstream days of Eclipse, Platformio etc., their appearance and behaviour are just second nature and I'm just looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses! Oh well, back to configure and make - I can handle that!
What are some alternatives?
flashfloppy - Floppy drive emulator for Gotek hardware
Empire-for-PDP-10 - Empire for the PDP-10 in the FORTRAN-10 programming language
z80porter - Port writer/tester for Z80-based systems running CP/M
ancient-3d-for-turboc
Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-ASM- - It's amazing what you find when you retrieve a box of floppy disks from the attic!