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

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

On Aug 8, 6:13 am, Polymorph <mike.a.steph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> PZ wrote:
> > Ok, here is what I got:
>
> > TML Pascal v1.50 (Disk does not say "II") (c)1987,1988
> > TML Pascal II System Disk (c)1989
> > TML Pascal II Compiler Disk (c)1989
> > TML Pascal II v1.1 Upgrade Disk (c)1989
> > TML Source Code Library (c)1987
> > TML Pascal v1.0 Manual (136 pages) (c)1987
> > TML Source Code Library Manual (33 pages) (c)1987
>
> > It appears that there is a different manual being referred to for TML
> > Pascal v1.1. (I have a 2 page "TML Pascal II v1.1 Installation Notes"
> > that do not correspond to the TML Pascal v1.0 manual that I have.  So
> > there could very likely could be 3 manuals which exist.  Since your
> > French manual doesn't correspond to your copy of TML Pascal II v1.1.
> > And so the plot thickens.
>
> > - Paul
>
> > Oh, and I've got TML Basic and its Manual, but I hear that its
> > somewhat buggy and wasn't upgraded to the extent that Pascal was.
>
> > On Jul 24, 9:57 pm, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jul 25, 12:03 pm, PZ <skierp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Give me 10 days and I'll see what I can do.
> >> Great. It would be good to track this down before it vanishes for
> >> good.
>
> >>> - Paul
> >>> Btw, nice work on the manual!
> >> Thanks. I plan on doing another revision to clean up some of the
> >> "rough" English used in the 1st revision. But its not a high priority
> >> at this stage. After doing that translation and also the translation
> >> of Deckards FASTDSK software, I'm a bit over doing any more right
> >> now...  :-)
>
> >> cheers,
> >> -p
>
> Paul,
>
> Thanks heaps for your efforts finding those. Are they part of your
> personal collection?
>
> Would you mind making disk images? As I said in an earlier post, I am
> assuming that this is abandonware as the IIgs Fairway site has a TML
> Pascal II image posted (this is the version I've been mucking around
> with). It would be interesting to compare your version(s) against the
> version I have.
>
> The manual would be nice too, but I know how painful scanning largish
> documents can be....not only that, it would make my translation effort
> feel somewhat circumvented.  ;-)
>
> It would seem that Complete Pascal 2.0 is a very rare commodity indeed!
> And worst of all, from what I've read, it was the best version of this
> development environment released (included many bugfixes and
> improvements). The search continues...
>
> cheers,
> -p

Your efforts were not in vain.  It sounds like my manual is 2
revisions older than yours.  Send me your contact info in email so I
can get these to you.  And yes, Complete Pascal 2.0 sounds like a real
treasure, that needs to be found.

- Paul

- Paul