Limitations of 8-bit Turbo Pascal 3.0, case study
Background In the previous post, I’ve acknowledged that Pascal emerged in the 70s, and Turbo Pascal existed even back in the 80s, which in theory should change programmers’ life quality if compared
Late 70s and the 80s: Forget BASIC, we had Pascal and C
Update 2024-04-01: I’ve just learned, day after publishing this, that Niklaus Wirth, the creator of Pascal, has died on January 1st 🙁 + added a link to a post about Turbo Pascal UI + updated
Was BASIC that horrible or... better?
Everything was fine until BASIC entered the picture. Edsger Dijkstra in a hallucination of 2023’s AI Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci It is practically impossible to teach good programming
Another Atari acquisition
Atari continues to aggressively acquire everything related to sustaining their legend. We recently wrote about the acquisition of AtariAge, and now resources have expanded with another company – the creators of remakes of classic
Compile your own IBM 8088 XT BIOS!
Two weeks ago the first version (v1.0.0) of the BIOS for systems based on the Intel 8088 processor was tagged on GitHub! [8088_bios on GitHub]. What does this mean in
CBM PET gets an Italian-plumber-lookalike game!
First a digression! While the Polish word “hydraulik” clearly derives from the Greek hydro- for things related to water, have you ever wondered why in English it’s “plumber”? It comes from the