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Yeah Free Pascal and Lazarus don't do the full Turbo Pascal and Delphi Object Oriented Pascal features. I was going to write a book on Free Pascal, and an Intr
by orionblastar 11y ago
Yeah Free Pascal and Lazarus don't do the full Turbo Pascal and Delphi Object Oriented Pascal features.
I was going to write a book on Free Pascal, and an Intro to Pascal using Free Pascal. But my Pascal skills are so out of date it would only be text based code and not OOP. Free Pascal and Lazarus need some books written on them. But I'm not skilled enough to write them.
There used to be a Borland Museum that gave away DOS versions of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++ etc. I think the current link is here: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/ http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/
I haven't tried it in a while. They have the specs on Delphi 1.0 but never gave away Delphi 1.0 which would have been a 16 bit Windows program.
I've seen versions of Delphi on Bit Torrent sites, but I stay away from pirated software. Sometimes the cracks are infected with viruses. Better to stay with Free Pascal and Lazarus instead. Besides Free Pascal and Lazarus are cross platform. Delphi isn't cross platform.
Trade Wars Game Server is still written in Delphi, it is based on the old BBS Tradewars 2002 written in Turbo Pascal. http://www.eisonline.com/ http://www.eisonline.com/ They went from modem connections to Internet Telnet connections. People still play it and buy it.
- giancarlostoro 11y agoIronically FreePascal was written on a free version of Turbo Pascal until it was self-compiling (or whatever the phrase is) when they decided to stop making the free versions. I feel the same about pirated software. Besides, once you get enough into programming piracy doesn't seem right, in some cases you're either recoding it for yourself or you realize there was genuine work put into the software to the point where piracy just feels wrong completely.
- orionblastar 11y agoPiracy feels wrong because programmers worked hard to get the code working and deserve to earn money from the sales of the software from their company. Some people used piracy to try a software program before they decide to buy it. For example Microsoft Windows was pirated by BBS systems, and it got popular and pirates would buy their own copy after trying it out first. People who pirated Windows 3.X for example, went on to buy Windows 95 when it came out. I used to work for PC Shops and they would give us copies of floppies with MS-DOS and Windows on it to install for customers without paying Microsoft OEM fees. This was before activation keys and online activation. I felt bad about doing it, but if I used a legit version and charged for it I'd be fired. It was custom PC and AT systems with parts made in China and Taiwan and sometimes a 386 as well when they could afford it.
- yaowenjiaozi 11y agoThere are some books for Lazarus and Free Pascal: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Pascal_and_Lazarus_Books_and_Magazines http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Pascal_and_Lazarus_Books_...