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On the Atari ST (and the Amiga I am told) there were several Modula compilers available. You can download the source of the Megamax Modula-2 compiler from Thoma
by ofrzeta 3y ago
On the Atari ST (and the Amiga I am told) there were several Modula compilers available. You can download the source of the Megamax Modula-2 compiler from Thomas Tempelmann's homepage:
http://www.tempel.org/files-d.html http://www.tempel.org/files-d.html
- jhbadger 3y agoLogitech (yes, the mice/keyboard company) also had a Modula-2 compiler/IDE for the PC as well in the mid 1980s. It supported the mouse, unsurprisingly for Logitech, even though mouse support on DOS wasn't that common yet. http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Logitech_Modula-2 http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Logitech_Modula-2
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI had Personal Pascal and Megamax Modula-2 on my ST. Great software. But most people used GFA Basic, which was structured, compiling, BASIC with a Pascal sheen to it. Or, if they were serious, they used C. The API for the AES and VDI was developed with C in mind, because it was written in C. Void pointers all over, stuff that Wirth-languages despised. GEM/TOS bindings for other languages were terrible, I never got Modula-2 to work well for GEM development, it simply didn't ship with bindings for it. I didn't have a C compiler, so to do anything GEM-ish... it was GFA. But TFA is about the early 80s, and is out to lunch. Only professionals with expensive PCs had access to C and Pascal in the early 80s. Though I guess there were Pascal dialects in the Apple II world, they weren't that commonly used.