@jamesog i cut my language teeth on #BASIC and #Pascal on my #Apple2e (and a bunch of #PET and #TRS80) back in the day. By college (1988) I was using #C, #LISP, et al on a variety of systems. I used #TurboPascal and #TurboC on a few college projects. Oh and #shell scripting. Lots of shell scripting. Ironically, I never touched #COBOL until I began work after college. Hehe #RetroComputing
Hm, I think Turbo C 2.01 has a very tricky, and VERY ancient bug. The intr() function from <dos.h> header SHOULD be able to pass ES:BP pointers to interrupts. However I think it doesn't. Using this gives garbage (or probably: the stack pointer) to the interrupt vector instead. I wonder if this could be patched...? How hard can it be to disassemble the .lib files?
#retrocomputing #turboc #letscode
You can enjoy a nostalgic DOS-ish experience in your modern terminals using turbo, a tubo-pascal/turboc inpired editor based on the modern port of turbovision. Supports all the old goodies such as splits, floating windows etc ...
There is also tvterm which is a WIP but its useable.
I just got an interesting viewer comment which led me to investigate if you can force alignment of variables in Turbo C 2.0 — the answer seems to be „no“. In gcc you can do
int x __attribute__ ((aligned (16))) = 0;
But this is nit possible in Turbo C. Any ideas?
#letscode #retrocomputing #c #turboc
I've enjoyed reading the source code of Turbo Pascal.
Has Borland ever released the source code of one of its C or C++ compilers? I can't google one up, but if it's out there, I'd like to read that one, too.
A trip down memory lane:
“Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, A Great IDE Back In The 90s” [2021], ToughDev (http://www.toughdev.com/content/2021/06/revisiting-borland-turbo-cc-a-great-ide-back-in-the-90s/).
@mos_8502
What ever happened to those old #Borland TUI editors? #TurboPascal and #TurboC++ were amazing back in the day.
Having a project in C for creating 2D array 
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#programming #cprogramming #turboc
How To Run MS-DOS Games And Programs In Linux #Dosbox #Msdos #Dos #Microsoft #DiskOperatingSystem #TurboC++ #MarioGame #Linux
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-run-ms-dos-games-and-programs-in-linux/
Borland Turbo C 2.01 actually running in a DOSBox emulator embedded in this archive.org web page.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_borland_turbo_c_2.01
If you're curious wtf is this archaic thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Turbo_C
#turboc #borland
https://social.coop/media/2pw0wseplKwpZCGJR7U
@DistroJunkie @jjg Turbo C 2.01 lives!
I had no idea that Borland once released a Turbo C version for a platform other than the PC: for the Atari ST, exclusively in (then West) Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Turbo_C
