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NULL mag Issue 05 19 Turbo Pascal in DosBox

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 · 3 years ago

  

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Turbo Pascal was famous in the old days, especially in the BBS scene.
Many BBS software is written in Pascal. So lets install it in DosBox.
By installing it in DosBox, we can have a quick way to develop /
compile old apps. We can throw a banch of DOS apps in a folder, zip
them and have a portable DOS system, every where we want, even in
Android smartphones.

So, download a copy of DosBox. For linux, in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install dosbox

Open the config file, in linux it would be under the .dosbox folder in
your home directory. Lets do some customization.

In the [sd] stanza change windowresolution and output:

windowresolution=1024x768
output=opengl

In the [serial] stanza put this:

serial1=modem listenport 23
serial2=disabled
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

At last in the [autoexec] stanza enter this:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
path=c:\tp\bin
mount a -t floppy /home/user/dos/dsk-drv
mount c /home/user/dos
c:

Now we have a 1024x768 window, internet connection to Dosbox, mounted
a virtual disk drive to folder /home/user/dos/dsk-drv and a hard disk
at /home/user/dos.

We can put any sort of DOS app in this folder. Check this website to
download many good DOS apps: https://winworldpc.com

You will also find Turbo Pascal 7 there. Get the zip file, extract it
and right click the first .img file. In linux systems will display a
selection to open the file with the Disk Mounter, select it and choose
to open the file manager. Copy the files you will see in the virtual
disk drive folder.

Inside DosBox, type:

a:

to change to the disk drive and execute the install program. When the
installation asks for another disk, erase the existing files in the
disk drive folder, open the next disk image file and repeat the
process.

If you noticed above, i've put the c:\tp\bin folder to the PATH
variable. So if you enter:

turbo

in the command prompt, turbo pascal will launch... enjoy!


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