Subj : Re: Re: what are you dialing in with?
To   : AKAcastor
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Jun 18 2024 11:45:00

 AK> etc.  Turbo Pascal seems like the most popular development system,
 AK> followed by BASIC and C, as far as I can tell.

Pascal, particularly TurboPascal was a more mature language back then. It had
faster code when compiled. It also lends itself to string handling, a lot
more like basic. You've got access to things like LEFT$ and RIGHT$.

If you tried to do direct serial port work with PASCAL it was a little
difficult though, you'd end up having to resort to inline ASM unless you
worked with one of the DOOR suites that did all that and just exposed it as
functions. I had some super basic serial work going on to leave a floating
serial line to one of my Apple IIs, it just sat looking for 2 or 3 <CR> and
then fired up the BBS. It was a bit like reinventing the wheel, but I didn't
have much joy with any of the suites.

My only other significant accomplishment in pascal back then was the DM's
Familiar. Don't think I got it fully complete, it'd do combat and saves, had
the extended combat tables out too level 25.

Spec


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