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Turbo Pascal 6.0 (vs. others) (Developers)

posted by Laaca Homepage, Czech republic, 23.02.2020, 10:05

> > For smaller projects is TP7 perfect.
>
> But (mostly) only if you target DOS or compatibles (not Win64!), which is
> rare these days (no native DOS installs, usually, Win9x is long dead
> [2006]).
WTF?
We are in the forum about DOS and about DOS programming. When I will want to discuss about Win64 I will go elsewhere.
Win9x is also not dead because I have it as main OS on my desktop PC and run it few times in a week. (Warcraft3, planescape torment, hammer&sickle...)

> > Also don't forget that we don't have any decent sound library for
> FPC-GO32V2.
>
> Like what? Old stuff like DUMB or Allegro?? There's bound to be wrappers
> somewhere, but modern hardware is anathema to DOS sound, mostly.
>

Again. We are speaking about DOS. If you use it you have a proper hardware or you have a adequate emulation. So we want a support for DOS soundcards (compatible with SB/GUS/PAS on hardware or driver layer).
Support for everything else (PCI soundcards, AC97, HD audio) is amazing but it is rather a bonus - not a necessarity.

For FPC-GO32V2 we have almost nothing. The only working libraries are my ports of Miles (extremaly basic port, however used in my old project Jupir 2 and my port of "Sound System" by Crew-242

> Sound is easily one of modern DOS's weakest link. Then again, I'd say it's
> less crucial than almost all other things.
It is crucial. Because without sound you virtualy can't make any games. And DOS is rather retrogaming platform than platform for productive work.

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