I used the Turbo Debugger to crack or develop cheats for games, that is until I discovered Softice. It always amazed me that when I set a breakpoint, it would

I used the Turbo Debugger to crack or develop cheats for games, that is until I discovered Softice. It always amazed me that when I set a breakpoint, it would halt the running program, switch to text mode, I could single step for a bit, modify an opcode, then continue running, and the screen would flicker back as if nothing had happened. Even the key combination, I think it was <ctrl> <break>, would halt a lot of programs. This was in the DOS days when programs had a lot more control over the system. My experience with Pascal was my first experience with a procedural language. Before that I had been writing BASIC. I didn't believe at first that I wouldn't need a goto statement somewhere. I recall later thinking that compared to BASIC, the resulting code was more satisfying looking. In highschool we used the Watcom compiler running on QNX on a 286. It was slower to compile I remember than my later experience with Turbo C.