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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!muller
- From: muller@world.std.com (James L Muller)
- Subject: Re: Pascal on a ][+
- Message-ID: <Bz5pzn.Gtw@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec12.020104.24703@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:30:58 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec12.020104.24703@cs.uow.edu.au> david@cs.uow.edu.au
- (David E A Wilson) writes:
- >According to my Pascal 1.3 manual this version will run on a 64k ][ or ][+.
- >(I assume by 'OLD Apple Pascal' 1.1 was being described). Certainly a 80 col
- >card would be desirable and two drives almost mandatory. Pascal 1.3 is US$69
- >from Resource Central.
-
- I've been using Apple Pascal since 1983, and though some people knock it
- pretty hard sometimes (well, it isn't UNIX), I like it. It will run on
- practically any ][ with the language card, but the //e version from 1.2
- onward offer a 128k version that uses the auxiliary memory to allow larger
- programs. Version 1.3 also recognizes a SCSI interface to a hard disk,
- though Apple's newer Hi-Speed SCSI Card with DMA will not work; you have
- to get an older (REV B, or is it REV C?) Apple SCSI card. Resource Central
- sold me a hard disk, the SCSI card, and version 1.3 when I needed to migrate
- my application (a big mailing-list database) to more disk space. I was
- *immensely* pleased with their support.
-
- One more item. I have written a package of graphics routines and programs
- to create and manipulate shapes in Pascal for the ][ or // hi-res screen. It
- all runs under the Turtlegraphics unit, and so is compatible with anything
- that runs that unit. At one time I intended to put it up for sale, but the
- commercial opportunities for it seem to be long gone. (I have no intention
- of spending any advertising money on it.) It is available to anyone here
- if you are interested. Drop me a line and I'll send you a description.
- If anyone has some idea for distribution, I'm open to suggestion.
- I have other things available too, such as a signal-processing unit and
- various games I've written. I'm willing to swap anything interesting
- (meaning stuff you've written, not pirated).
-
- Thanks,
- --
- Jim Muller muller@world.std.com
-