I just released version 0.97 of PASTA/80, the 8-bit Turbo Pascal 3 clone you didn't know you needed. 😀 Now with a target for Agon Light/Console8 (courtesy of @sijnstra), debugger support and lots of small improvements to both the compiler and the existing targets (which are CP/M, Spectrum 48K, 128K, and Next).

https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80

#pascal #turbopascal #cpm #zxspectrum #zxspectrumnext #agonlight #retrocomputing #retroprogramming

Basic Pascal version 1.21 Sand Road – mods!

Crest and Shooting Mod X. This is the very first modification. This game opens the modifications section. The mods folder has been created. This game and other modifications should be found in the mods folder

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2026/03/basic-pascal-version-121-sand-road-mods.html

#mods #modification #retroprogramming #worldwar2 #crest #rifle #turnbased #tactics #fish #arcade #smile #funny #swim #ocean #dive #turbopascal #qbasic #water

Ahhh those were the times...

#borland #turbopascal #tp3 #retrocomputing

Finally dug into Mode X. It can do some neat tricks 13h can't, but it's got some challenges as well... so I had to dust off my very rusty assembly skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0xtavXOUE

#gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal

I just realized something.. I used to love learning new things, i could get engrossed in something because it was simple to learn and easy to use.

New "tech stack" doesn't seem to be like that anymore. It feels needlessly complex and invents a new 'standard' every time. It makes me angry and I hate learning, cause its no longer fun.

Learning #borland #TurboPascal #pascal was fun and easy in High School. Moving to #C and #Perl in university was great and easy enough as well. Not that I was any kind of competent in C, but I felt I learned enough that it set me up on a trajectory to learn the finer details and gotchas.

Things like #Python are annoying AF. Oh, your python program only works on 3.11 and not 3.12 or 3.13? That shouldn't be at all. From 2->3 sure I expect changes, 3->4, i would expect great changes as well. But not a minor change!

Dabbling in #Go was fine actually, it didn't anger me much, and #Rustlang / #rust I'm still doing rustlings so I can't say much there.

CLI tools are weird today too. Do they want to be a TUI, a true CLI tool or what?

The #Unix philosophy made learning new tools nice and easy, at least I think so. Do one thing, do it well, make it so your output can be used as the input to another program and great!

Things don't seem to follow that idea anymore.

Or am I just old and biased cause my brain lost its elasticity?? I don't want to think i'm so egocentric as to not rule that out.

#programming #OldManYellsAtClouds

I've been learning computer technology

Somewhere since the second half of spring 2025. When the sun was already shining. And it was getting light. And at the same time, it was still cold and even frosty. BUT, closer to warmer days. Which are about to begin. I decided to learn computer technology. From scratch.

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2026/01/ive-been-learning-computer-technology.html

#turbopascal #basic #visualbasic #vbanet #lazarus #delphi #web #html #csharp