@thomasfuchs 640K and FDD. Solid though. Wrote a lot of #pascal using #TurboPascal on these beasts.
and with a re-write, compatible with #Mega64 / #TRSE <https://retrogamecoders.com/introduction-to-trse-programming/
I put together most of my retrocomputing bookshelf while learning Intel 8080 and CP/M programming, which reflects in the selection of titles. For more great photos of retrocomputing bookshelfs see:
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/shelfies-bookshelves-with-a-retrocomputing-angle/190
Retro Computing Nostalgia meet Open Source Software and Hardware with AgonLight and Neo6502, the incredible evolution of modern Retro computer projects https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/retro-computing-nostalgia-meet-open-source-software-and-hardware/ #z80 #w65c02 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #pascal #cpm #forth #basic #cc65
Perhaps I should take some bigger examples of my private programming history. Those are often similar or better than my professional projects using these languages. And then AI should rate #style, #readability and #maintainability, perhaps room for optimization without loosing these criteria. The languages here would be #pascal, #perl, #python, #java, #smalltalk, #erlang and #golang. Should be interesting. And beside the different languages I would expect a reflection of my personal experience.
Lovely video from The Serial Port on getting PC based Impulse #bbs software up and running in 2025 <3 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYAEtwE8Es
Heute gelernt: Obwohl beispielsweise im Smalltalk Buch von Strahringer und Kaufmann behauptet wird nil stünde „Not In List“, gilt als gesichert, dass die Angabe im bekannten Buch von Abelson und Sussman, es handele sich um eine Kontraktion von „nihil“ (lat. nichts), die korrekte Herleitung ist. #TIL #Scheme #Smalltalk #Oberon #Pascal
Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts machen die Mathematiker Blaise Pascal und Pierre de Fermat die Zukunft berechenbar, indem sie erstmals mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten rechnen. Ausschlaggebend ist ein abgebrochenes Glücksspiel.
#Fermat #Pascal #SpektrumDerWissenschaft #Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre #Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie #GeschichtenAusDerMathematik
https://www.europesays.com/2107494/ Pedro Pascal spotted flying economy to film festival: Watch #affiliate #Arts #cannes #CannesFilmFestival #celebrities #CelebritiesU0026EntertainmentNews #Economy #Entertainment #Europe #festival #film #local #LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment #movies #network #NetworkTrending #neutral #News #Overall #OverallNeutral #pascal #pedro #PedroPascal #trending #u0026
Updated for Haiku 64bit: Lazarus 4.0.
Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development Tool for Free Pascal.
Install or update it with Haiku's application HaikuDepot or the Terminal command pkgman.
For this I created/updated a local script (partly based on how Fedora uses it):
https://codeberg.org/Begasus/Lazarus_Haiku/src/branch/main/lazarusBuildFedora.sh
Turbo Pascal vs. Pedro Pascal.
In 1979 BYTE magazine published The BYTE Book of Pascal, an anthology of articles about the language, comparisons with other languages, and lots of source code of programs ranging from Pascal compilers to utilities and games.
A fascinating account of an era when Pascal was still relatively new and promising and programmers were discovering what it could do.
https://archive.org/details/the-byte-book-of-pascal/page/n11/mode/2up
Oh look - it's a new blog post, an introduction to the USCD p-System Editor, *written on* the UCSD Pascal Editor:
https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucsd-pascal-in-depth/
Yes, this means that my #Rust #psystem utility can successfully copy files off of the emulator disk image, and convert them into Mac-formatted text, from the frankly bizarre format that's native to the text editor.
@ry @kalleboo Ooooh, Think Pascal.
Back in … 1989? a club colleague introduced me to the local uni’s computer lab, filled with Mac II. Base config, 13" color screen with 640x480 in 256 colors, with Hypercard and Think Pascal on it. And some word processor.
Coming from the Atari ST, the Mac II wasn’t much faster than what I had, and the GUI was theoretically similar.
But ThinkPascal felt sooo much more advanced due to the tight integration of its source level debugger into the IDE. On the ST, debuggers weren’t integrated yet into the UI, and were cumbersome to use.
So Think Pascals step-by-step debugger and variable inspection in windows were mind-blowing for me ("how to they do this in supervisor mode, and yet have full access to high-level OS/grafport/window calls?" -- little did I know how hacky System 6/7 were).
These memories.
I wrote a new blog post:
A blast from the past: The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized.
https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/
#programming #pascal #retrocomputing
I'd much rather take Pascal's carriage than Pascal's wager any time!
TIL that Pascal started the worlds first bus company (as far as this youtuber found that history has recorded, which might have many biases)
“The #Delphi launch took place at the Miller Freeman Software Development Conference West in #SanFrancisco California, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 1995 at 7PM just after #PhilippeKahn’s keynote “The Importance of #ObjectComputing – The Algorithmic Link”. Two editions of Delphi were announced: Delphi and Delphi Client/Server.”
#Borland / #Pascal / #RAD / #OO / #programming / #DavidIntersimone <https://blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/>
Greeting, I'm Sam. Basically I created this account and now access it via #Tor because I live in the US and fear for our safety, security, and privacy from our own government now. It's a disgrace.
I'm into old computers (#Retrocomputing) from the late 70s and early 80s, mostly #Commodore, #Atari, #Sinclair, #AppleII, (gotta specify the 'ii' else I'll get a bunch of modern apple junk), #Acorn, etc.
I know #BASICv2 and #6510ASM, along with modern #C, #Perl, #Pascal, etc. I've also wanted to relearn #Prolog (CP3... )
I'm a straight male but I hope that doesn't matter as it doesn't matter to me what you are. I believe people deserve to live their lives, their way to be happy. No one is above others. It's when beliefs are pushed on others we have problems.
Thank you for taking the time to read this far and I guess I'm supposed to end with a "Like and subscribe", but I think here that means "Follow if you'd like".
@nixCraft Never used that newfangled stuff - I started using TP3 at @KIT_Karlsruhe (then still Universität Karlsruhe) in 1987 and changed (unenthusiatically) to #FORTRAN after TP5.
Still have the complete boxes with disks and books of TP3 and TP5 here somewhere.
#Pascal #TurboPascal #Retrocomputing
@nixCraft
My high school didn’t have enough fancy 286 computers so some of us used original 8086 with just 384kb of ram? IDE (had to use #WordStar key bindings) was Turbo #Pascal 3.0 and I’d exit back to DOS to compile.
I volunteered to use the worst computer so the following semester I’d get first dibs on new (for the school) computers: 386 w/4MB ram.