Re: Last Version of TML Pascal II (Complete Pascal II)

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

http://www.textfiles.com/apple/ADC/adv.900828

Dunno if we have a shot of finding out who "SteveB" was.  He appears
to have been a beta tester of Complete Pascal v2.0.

- Paul

On Jul 24, 9:43 pm, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >From what I understand (only from what I have managed to dig up here
> > in the csa2 news group), there were the following releases of TML
> Pascal:
>
> * TML Pascal I (unknown version number(s))
> * TML Pascal II v1.1 (don't know if there was a v1.0)
> * TML Pascal II v1.5
> * Complete Pascal 1.0 (which I *believe* was simply TML Pascal II
> rebadged)
> * Complete Pascal 2.0
>
> Now from what I've read, the original company marketing TML Pascal
> (TML Systems) sold the rights to the program to "Complete Technology"
> which was essentially a one man show (Vince M. Cooper). When this
> happened, the name changed from "TML Pascal II" to "Complete Pascal
> 1.0".
>
> Complete Pascal 2.0 was subsequently marketed as having many upgrades,
> extra features, and bug fixes. See the following link for the spiel
> given back in the day (I hope the link works):
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_frm/thread/7050...
>
> Now as I mentioned in my previous posts, the release of Complete
> Pascal 2.0 was rather infamous as many people sent money in for the
> upgrade but never received the actual product. However, those few
> people that did receive the upgrade said that it was very good.
>
> I would really like to get my hands on Complete Pascal 2.0 (if
> possible), but as the only version of TML Pascal available to download
> is TML Pascal v1.1, *any* newer version would be welcome. I recently
> underwent the arduous task of converting the TML Pascal II manual from
> French into English, but noticed that some of what was said in the
> manual differed from the v1.1 version. I'm guessing that the manual is
> probably for v1.5.
>
> I hope that clears up things (maybe it has made it muddier!). And if
> I've gotten anything wrong, please feel free to correct me, as I am
> only going by the bits and pieces that I found by searching csa2
> history.
>
> cheers,
> -p