DOS ain't dead - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released

Free Pascal 2.2.4 released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 25.07.2009, 10:03

> New version of Freepascal is released. Main change is the .CHM support and,
> as usual, some bugs are fixed.

Okay, sorry to bump this old thread, but 2.2.4 is still latest version, so I figure it's more appropriate to put my random blatherings here.

I decided a while back that, as I don't grok Pascal, it wasn't worth downloading 2.2.4 until I "needed" it. Well, I still don't need it, but I guess I got bored and thought I should have it at least for archival purposes. :-)

Anyways, main thing I noticed is that SourceForge seems to lack files for 2.2.4 (normal or full) for "GO32v2" (although it won't tell you until you click and it fails to find 'em). I would doubt that's intentional, but I ended up just searching for a (Russian) mirror and getting it there, esp. since even the main FPC site just points to SourceForge.

Anyways, just for the record ...

I didn't really install it, just played with it a bit. I didn't know the TUI IDE (UPX'd! heh) has a compiler built in! :ok: But anyways I unpacked it, and just grabbed aslddos.zip and a bunch of runtime objects and dumped it all in one directory. Of course, Vista hates it ("no full screen", ugh), most likely due to stupid VGA BIOS detection calls. But DOSBox ran it okay, and it was able to compile the simple BEER.PAS I had on hand, pretty much the only quick example I knew of offhand. (Ah, forgot about Adlib Tracker player example I saw the other day, oh well.)

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Complete thread:

Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Laaca, 14.04.2009, 09:55 (Announce)
- Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Rugxulo, 16.04.2009, 17:41
- Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - marcov, 19.04.2009, 13:24
  - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - marcov, 25.04.2009, 12:53
- Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - DOS386, 27.04.2009, 10:22
  - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - rr, 28.04.2009, 20:32
    - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - DOS386, 09.05.2009, 10:28
      - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - rr, 19.05.2009, 21:18
      - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - marcov, 21.05.2009, 14:47
        Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Rugxulo, 23.05.2009, 02:47
  - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - marcov, 28.04.2009, 20:53
    - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Rugxulo, 28.04.2009, 22:52
      - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - marcov, 29.04.2009, 09:15
- Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Rugxulo, 25.07.2009, 10:03
  - Free Pascal 2.2.4 released - Rugxulo, 31.07.2009, 21:41