Re: Instant Pascal

[Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet-20-00.com>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:28:45 -0400
"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> Can I load any Pascal program into this, or do I need to
> convert to text and type it in? I need to test it for disk
> access before I claim it really works.

I really don't use it much as it's not a compiler system, simply a GUI based interpreter. According to the program LIST, the file has a P8 filetype $21. The data is stored as low-ascii values. IE, P = $50. The file only contains the text data delimited by a $0d byte.

If you can install and then run the installed version, it will work. There is very little to the system. The, IP.SYSTEM launcher program, an errors file and two large binaries. I would be surprised to see this install method work on a real system and not on an emulator. Kegs and Oasis are pretty accurate systems.

> Also, the display on my real GS looks like it was freshly painted
> and someone smeared their hand all over it. Is that what yours looks
> like as well?

Sadly, my GS is not available right now so I'm only able to test this on emulators but this is how things look on the KEGS emulator. Apple Oasis display varies but ALL color modes look bad and the monochrome works ok. IIRC, the dealer I knew (way back when) who sold this claimed it required a monochrome or RGB display. I wasn't impressed then either. :)

I suppose it would make a nice learning system. Running in Oasis on my laptop at 10 mhz speed works fairly well. I didn't run it long on KEGS/Linux due to video.

-- 
Cheers,
Phoenyx

    Ain't nothing like the clasics!
    Apple2 user since March 1984
    -={ Apple II Forever }=-

    Phoenyx' Apple II page
    http://www.dcnet2000.com/~quazar/Apple2