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which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love to honor his memory.

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Modula2 was available and got used on Amiga. Silly teenager me found such high level languages "cheating" at the time.

Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga

https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun

My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?

No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.

There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone)

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html

The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2

At least several Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon-2 compilers.

My very first compiled programming language was Pascal. I got the free "PCQ Pascal" from the Fish disks as I wasn't able to get the C headers from Commodore which I would have needed for doing proper Amiga programming. Likewise later Oberon-A although I don't remember where I got that from.

There were also commercial Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compilers. I just found that the Modula-2 compiler was open sourced some years back. https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/

Aminet has directories for Oberon and Modula-2 related programs: https://aminet.net/dev/obero and https://aminet.net/dev/m2

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