did you know that there was an pascal compiler for the cbm64

**noeska** · 07-08-2006, 08:52 PM

The cbm64 is the machine on which i learned programming (in basic). But just now i found out that there was an pascal compiler for it. If i had knew it than i would not have to bother renumbering source code lines on realizing i had to squeze in another line between 100 and 101 :twisted:

For those who dare here is an link(german): http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/file/Leh...C128/index.htm

**WILL** · 07-08-2006, 08:57 PM

CBM64? I've never heard the Commador 64 been called that before. :?

There a variant of it that was not as popular?

None-the-less, very cool.

**tux** · 07-08-2006, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by WILL

Whats a CBM64?

and heres me thinking i was just too young to know what one was

**WILL** · 07-08-2006, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by tux

Originally Posted by WILL

Whats a CBM64?

Awe, you caught me before my edit.

That was my first rection. Then looked much closer at the URL and it came to me... :lol:

I'm gonna have tobe quicker on my toes with visiting the site again.

**tux** · 07-08-2006, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by WILL

I'm gonna have to be quicker on my toes with visiting the site again.

hehehe, im watching!

but yes, i remember my C64... i find it strange that the only game i remember is one staring paddington bear

**dmantione** · 07-08-2006, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by WILL

CBM64? I've never heard the Commador 64 been called that before. :?

Commodore Business Machiness was one of the companies inside the Commodore "empire". It was established in 1962 in an effort to make the company public instead of private owned.

Other companies in the Commodore empire were Commodore International, Commodore Semiconductor Group, and of course all the local divisions in each country.

I think it was indeed CBM who designed the original C64, but the full name of the machine was "Commodore 64", not CBM64. The Commodore 64-II was designed by Commodore Germany.

**WILL** · 07-08-2006, 10:57 PM

Speaking of aged systems. How about that Apple II GS?

I thought all apples where EGA as a maximum?

Or is this screenshot of Lemmings for the Apple II GS wrongly labeled?

**paul_nicholls** · 08-08-2006, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by noeska

The cbm64 is the machine on which i learned programming (in basic). But just now i found out that there was an pascal compiler for it. If i had knew it than i would not have to bother renumbering source code lines on realizing i had to squeze in another line between 100 and 101 :twisted:

For those who dare here is an ]http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/file/Lehrstuhl/Mitarbeiter/matthes/C64_C128/index.htm[/url]

Cool! Gotta love nostalgia

BTW, back in 1989 I was using a pascal program on the C-64 called Oxford Pascal :-)

For your info (more Pascal for the C-64):

http://www.npsnet.com/danf/cbm/languages.html#Pascal

cheers,
Paul.

**jdarling** · 08-08-2006, 12:49 PM

Well I learned on a TRS-80 (Thats trash 80 for you youngsters), before that it was a 8051 micro in machine language. The 8051's are still around and in use today, sadly the TRS-80 is not

. When I finally moved up to a C-64 I thought I was in heaven, fast, and it had color!

Built my first modem, all 300 baud of it, by hand from a book (parts from RadioShack, too bad they suck now).

Of course, seeing as how WILL is retiring soon, I'm sure he will post something about building his first computer out of some transistors and a coffee can. He might even have been around when the transisitors were optional (can't find the plans for that one anymore either I'm sad to say).

Elevator Madness was my first app on the C-64. 4 days of typing and debugging, just to play a game. If you screwed up and had to re-boot (for those of us that didn't have tape drives) you had to start all over again. Those were the days!