@NutsAboutAmiga
Well, yeah, it is very retro, and not the primary development environment any more, but it still works pretty well, so why not? :)

Also, it is actually a good test code candidate when it comes to the support of some platform specific stuff, especially on Amiga, where the entire text mode emulation and rendering is custom intuition and graphics.library code. So, yeah. We still consider it a "milestone" when it first works on a given platform.

Of course, the normal command line compiler will be still bundled, and available to be used from one's fav editor.

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@Chain-Q

Fantastic that our tiny community still has dedicated users/developers, who give their time freely to provide tools and software of so many different kinds. Thanks for all of your hard work on Free Pascal.

Not sure how many users will take advantage of having it available, but you never know, it may encourage some non-developer user to become interested in learning to program for one or more of our platforms.

@Chain-Q

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Well, yeah, it is very retro, and not the primary development environment any more, but it still works pretty well, so why not? :)

I don't think its retro, Pascal as remember it generated fast programs, I don't know about FPC, but at least it was not bad in MSDOS, having the language is not bad things, it was really popular language at one time. I'm sure there are many old programs written in pascal that might be ported to AmigaOS or like systems.

I'm sure I have something like that on 1.44 Disk somewhere, I don't know if world needs another pong clone but that’s another matter

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When I said retro, I meant the textmode IDE, not FPC or the language. The recent incarnation of Object Pascal and its library is actually quite modern. We have reference counted strings and objects, platform independent threading, runtime type information, list, streams, hastables, generics, resource files, and many more... And you can do pointer magic to almost C levels these days, and proper 64bit math on 32bit CPUs. With FPC, as packages we have XML/JSON parser, OAuth capable HTTP client/server, and many other things bundled...

But yes, another advantage is, that you can compile your 20 years old pong clone written in Turbo Pascal for OS4, and other Amiga-like systems... (Although CRT unit might be missing for OS4, so if it uses that, it probably won't work 1:1.)

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@Chain-Q

It just basic 8bit pixel data, if remember correct I just writing into video memory, by array.
Something like:

mem[ bpr * y + x ] := v

I probably need to redirect that to a buffer, for sound I used the PC speaker. As it as school project and we did not have sound blaster cards in PC's.

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Yeah, that's obviously not supported on Amiga, I mean poking to $A000:0000, using the TP feature Mem[] array, that's x86 specific. But if you redirect it to a buffer, then blit it to a window, with WritePixelArray() or something, it works. Same if you modified the palette, x86 BIOS calls and VGA registers are not emulated, so you have to redirect that to a palette array then use LoadRGB32.

Actually, there's a platform independent Graph unit too, but that's not supported on Amiga (yet, although it's low priority), but that won't help with custom code doing direct HW poking.

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OK, so Alb42 seems to be on "ludicrous speed", he added some more OS4 stuff like MUI and Networking, so things like the FPC package's webserver now works on OS4. Threading was also tested and seems to be working, also resources support is now enabled for OS4.



Nightly experimental release packages for OS4 are available from his website, just like for other Amiga platforms. Also, see his blog entry.

If anyone ever wanted to try FPC on OS4, now is the time. It is actually the first proper release, and much better than my 2006 version still on OS4Depot.

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Doesn't Pascal suck?

@Thorham

No it does not suck, It's somewhere in between basic and C in complexity, in my option.

It was possible to mix assembler and pascal code, this made powerful to write demos and games in, if you needed to tweak the code, it was possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland

"For a number of years (both before and during the Inprise name) Borland suffered from serious financial losses and very poor public image. When the name was changed to Inprise, many thought Borland had gone out of business. In March 1999, dBase was sold to KSoft, Inc. which was soon renamed to dBASE Inc. (In 2004 dBASE Inc. was renamed to DataBased Intelligence, Inc.)."

Stupid managers killed Borland Turbo Pascal.
Fighting Microsoft Visual studio on their back's is not good idea.

Just Imagine how stupid you must be to change a well-known company name to a company name no one knows about.

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@Thorham
Nice trolling attempt. Well, if you are a senior developer enough, at some point you probably realize, all ways of development suck. Oh, and while we're at it, lets not mix up development tools (Turbo Pascal/Delphi) with the language (Pascal) please?

Anyway, it sucks a lot less for general purpose tasks than for example C++, which is one of the most widely used languages, and when it comes to higher-level software development, it is very similar in some aspects to Java and C#, except it doesn't require a bloated ugly VM with utterly slow garbage collection.

But that's just my opinion...

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@Thread:
Meanwhile, Alb42 made some really nice progress, now LCL apps are also working on OS4. LCL (Lazarus Component LIbrary) is a GUI/other framework (lets say something like QT for C++) which can be used with Free Pascal and large applications like the Lazarus IDE itself is built on it. The port for Amiga-like systems needs MUI.



He released two smaller example apps using LCL. FPCMines and ColorIt for OS4, are available for download from his blog. (Just for the record, these are also available for other Amiga-like systems.)

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Chain-Q wrote: @Thread: Meanwhile, Alb42 made some really nice progress, now LCL apps are also working on OS4. LCL (Lazarus

Wow, thank you both will give it a go when i'm back home in a few days

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Now, while I'm at digging up old threads from the grave, here's another one.

Alb42 did again some awesomeness, he created an online interface for Free Pascal for Amiga. So you write some Pascal code in the browser, click compile, download the binary for your favorite Amiga system (including OS4, as that's the subject, but it supports AmigaOS 3.x, various flavors of AROS and MorphOS as well).

Here's his blogpost about it, with videos. It even has a special version which works with old Amiga browsers.

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FreePascal is IMR more like Delphi and not like its predecessor Turbo Pascal.

I don't know how much of the IDE was ported but you could generate a nice functional GUI for your program with just a view clicks.

That is really amazing work!!

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