Easy to learn syntax, really great built in help system with examples, near instant compile times even on 286/386/486 machines, pointers, inline assembly, etc. Allegro 3.x or 4.x is a really awesome 'batteries included' library for doing game development with, for example.Īs someone who was really big into QBasic back in the day, Turbo Pascal is really awesome to me. QBasic/QuickBASIC is what I self-taught myself programming with as a teenager in the 90's, so it's also something I will probably revisit for some new project in the future. I've also dabbled a bit with Delphi 1.0 as well as re-visited some of my childhood projects from back in the day written in QuickBASIC 4.5 and Visual Basic 6. Turbo Pascal 7 of course has it's own included IDE which is awesome, but for Watcom C projects, I use a heavily customized Aurora Text Editor installation. Right now, I primarily have separate on-going projects in both Turbo Pascal 7 and Watcom C. For me this is 486 DX2 and Pentium MMX systems. The documentation is mentioned just for a completeness of this page.I bounce around a bit with what I program in on my retro computers. Keep in mind that the number of books exploiting TASM specific features is very low, and functionality introduced after version 3.x is rarely described. Please read my post about TASM related books. Turbo Debugger Utilities (TD_UTILS.TXT).USING THE HARDWARE DEBUGGING FEATURES (TD_HDWBP.TXT).Turbo Debugger 5.0 electronic documentation FAQ758C.txt Building a DOS device driver with BC++ 5.0.Turbo Assembler User’s Guide contains a chapter about interfacing with linker but it does not cover all linker capabilities.

Windows ’95 and Flat Thunking (THUNK95.TXT)īorland didn’t include printed documentation for Turbo Linker (TLINK and TLINK32) instead text file has been provided with TASM 5 and earlier versions.Usage of H2ASH and H2ASH32 (TSM_UTIL.TXT).

Turbo Assembler 5.0 Installation (TSM_INST.TXT).

Printed manualsĮlectronic documentation that comes with TASM 5 If you are looking for other versions it is worth to visit server. Below are links to books from version 5 package. Thanks to excellent service we can enjoy electronic copies of original Turbo Assembler manuals.

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