OpenEuphoria

Re: Which Platform to Start?

• Posted by kinz at peterlink.ru Feb 12, 2001
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Hi Ray,

> I'm pretty sure you don't need DCOM
> for Allegro to work - that still leaves
> a few levels!.


Yes, but there is Win-95 + DirectX warning without DCOM.


> I'm looking at Free Pascal as a possible solution.


Remember Ray, Win-95's native hardware platform
is 386 + 486. (+ 486!)

I have not good but an acceptable **programmig**
environment (not for clients naturally and anyway!)
with your euAllegro on my 386-WIN.

But I have excellent and very comfortable conditions
for programming and real execution on my 386-DOS
in graphics mode 257, then I just *turn on delays*
for a more fast machine or *add* some new features
later on.

Inspect my simple alph_mic.zip for more detailes.

This style is very useful for me -- 
same as Euphoria's 
 _without "goto"_  a very simple discipline and
 _without "declare sub"_  a very wise philosophy.

I don't _need_ another language and another machine and
I don't _want_ another language and another machine
for *my* programming tasks (see my mail to Rolf).

I love think and understand,
not click & drag & drop & (append or prepend) my copyright.

I saw Algol, Fortran, PL-1, Pascal, C/C++, Forth,
may be almost all Basics ... no, I didn't see
True Basic only (?) with  matrix operators.

The best basic - USSR's BASIC 02 for the Iskra 226 machine
(some like WANG 2000) - aborted in 1982 or 84 (?) -
64K with all matrix, trigs, sorts, disk file system,
graphics objekts;
biltin editor, support plotter, mouse, printer, tape-drive
and some more ... hard to remember ...

Stop now.

Euphoria on a couple 386 was my choice in 1998,
is my choice now, and will be my choice,
thanks to Euphoria's only more and more high speed,
excellent for DOS on a 386, and only more and more
high compatibility of the Euphoria's platforms.

I program for 386,486,586,686,786,886 >>,
not for platform,
use "as is", if these *my* *ready* programs
are useful.

*Your* programs are your's programs.

And I am *not* a programmer for *clients* -
this point is very important for some Eu users -
remember this point, when you and (may be) your
clients read these my messages on this subject.

My own risk is just zero, if I program now.
But my programming practice may be
useful for you too, I think.

I am not going to tell lies for this list.

Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru