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I remember using Delphi 1 on a 386 under Windows 3.1 and watching and even listening to the GUI reloading from the swap file component by component. I had enough RAM but I think the Windows memory manager was not great. Today, I'd throw the PC out the window, but at the time, there was something reassuring about it. But maybe I'm embellishing my memories.

For what it's worth, the source code of OmegaSoft Pascal, a Pascal cross-compiler with linker/assembler/... for OS9/68000 targeting the 6809, is available: http://pascal-central.com/omega.html

Direct link to the archive: http://www.certsoft.com/PXK9_OS9_Source.zip

This seems to have been written in Pascal (Modula?).

And while you're at it, you could use Fossil also written by D. Richard Hipp and used to host the canonical Tcl/Tk source code repositories.

I just wanted to reassure the OP. This was posted a zillion times all over the Internet.

It's him.

Related: Amazon's first job posting by Jeff Bezos http://www.ngrblog.com/amazon-usenet-post/

And this included the VRAM, or rather the variable-size display file! Count 25 bytes + 1 byte per character [1] Hopefully, BASIC tokens were included in the character set.

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/7974

OpenTTD, which is a very good open-source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe: https://www.openttd.org/

I have 20.04 LTS and it is available as the 'openttd' package.

The author has uploaded a demo on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO00-eby6_E

I guess that doesn't apply to translations?

I remember of the game "Voyeur": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyeur_(video_game)

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGUuqjweAi0

Sorry, but the typesetting of this document is awful.

I have an Amstrad NC100 with BBC Basic for Z80 and it supports inline assembly as well. It is highly recommended to save your programs on the (optional) SRAM card before testing them though as it is so easy to reset the machine or corrupt the main memory.

I miss my Blue Dalmatian iMac.

I think it's a good way to reassign a non-functional ZX Spectrum.

My first computer was a ZX81 with 1K of RAM, received as a soldering kit. We had the 16K extension, very sensitive and which made the system reboot at the slightest shock.

Receive all my compassion. And I was complaining of a sprain depriving me of long walks for a few weeks.

I started walking at a rhythm of 5 hours a week minimum three years ago. And I must say, without exaggeration, that I am a different man now. I haven't been sick for 2.5 years; I feel that my immune system is stronger now. Before that, I used to get sick, angina or whatever, twice a year. Also, my legs have become more muscular and my face has become thinner, which makes me look more attractive. I'm 18 again ;-)

In this context, it's a really impressive work! Can you tell us more?

Also, the default buffer size of Text and file (without specifying a type) types is 128 bytes as well for the same historical reason: CP/M, where files are divided in records of 128 bytes.

You have linked a source code repository of programs and units written for TP7.

The sources of TP6 have leaked a few years ago. Search for exmortis on HN.

I see that the article has been republished under the same URL.

Same thing in Western Europe ;-)

Ah, thanks for mentioning that. If I understand well, it's a distributed filesystem but there is still an authority able to ban users or contents?

I hope not. This article seems to be an improved version of this one: https://gamehistory.org/gallery/making-of-monkey-island/ from April and it's still there.

The first paragraph of the deleted article: "This is new text content! I made it it’s new!", unless I missed the reference, makes me think that someone pushed on the publish button too early.

Luckily, the page has already been archived by IA: https://web.archive.org/web/20201121002500/https://gamehisto... and the videos still seem to be available on YT.

pkl-tab.c is produced from pkl-tab.y and bison 3.6.0 is required "to improve the user's experience", after the doc.

./bootstrap doesn't even want to make a configure file for me.

This version of bison is not available in Debian Stable or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Mirror: https://archive.is/0SRPm

I wrote a mistake. Carries can be ignored as the additions are made on the high-order word of the result.

> the implementation is a full 32-bit multiply using 16-bit limbs

> (note: the LCG constants listed here are wrong)

It's a buggy 24-bit multiply and the constants are accessed wrongly.

Look at the code https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=1414.0:

The third MUL computes the same value as the first but it should be [RndA+2] * [RndVar] and not [RndA] * [RndVar] hence a=0fd43fdh instead of a=0343fdh. Also carries are not taken into account in the first two ADDs.

The addition of c is similarly buggy.

> QuickBasic had support for inline assembly though if I remember correctly?

No but BBC Basic did!