Mastodawn

One of the examples recently added to PASTA/80 is the Hilbert curve, a "continuous fractal space-filling curve" first described by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1891 (Wikipedia). Decades later, Ikea apparently adopted it as the basis for their store layouts. ;) Although complex-looking, the Hilbert curve can be generated by a few lines of elegant, recursive Pascal that run in no time, even on 8-bit machines.
https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80/blob/master/examples/hilbert.pas

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zxprinter May 23

Grußfrequenzen offen. Dieses von https://www.obscurati.de mit viel Liebe übersetzte und gegenüber dem Original sogar etwas erweiterte Schätzchen hat mir DHL heute gebracht. Wer Lust auf ein Science Fiction-Rollenspiel mit schlankem Regelwerk hat, sollte vielleicht mal einen Blick darauf werfen. Allein die Würfel sind schon cool! Grußfrequenzen geschlossen. #pnpde

zxprinter Apr 23

I just released version 0.98 of PASTA/80, the 8-bit Turbo Pascal 3 clone that lets you party like it's 1986. ;) Now with conditional compilation, overlays for Agon, and an RTL reference. Thanks to @sijnstra for tirelessly sending patches and uncovering compiler bugs.

Binaries available for MacOS (Arm and x86), Windows (x86), Ubuntu (x86) and Raspberry Pi OS (Arm).

https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80

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zxprinter Mar 18

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

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