OS 9 Development

Join this forum http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/forum/index.php?board=49.0 Maybe a forum member has a copy of 2.0.2 that they can send you. Do a Google search for more Free Pascal forums.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

If Pascal is too old, then maybe try Metrowerks Modula-2 or Oberon. They look like Pascal. There are also free Modula-2 and Oberon compilers.

I tried several compilers from the beginning of the nineties. They build only 68k code what is probably not what you want and they crash in the debugger or always. I tried MetroWerks CodeWarrior Pro 4 Pascal PPC and that was the only thing that I could find that really worked on OS 9.2.2. The minimum install with complete functionality was 686 files. It fits in 8.1 MB.

It's already 21 years ago that I wrote a Pascal program. The teacher said: "If your boss wants that you write your programs in BASIC because that's the only thing that he understands, then you have write them in BASIC." Thus you must have Pascal.

If it has to be Pascal and it may not be CodeWarrior then I see no good solution.
1) OS 9 doesn't work on 68k computers.
2) Most Pascal compilers build only 68k code.
3) It's better to write PPC programs for OS 9.

There's a possibility to install a Pascal compiler in MPW, but I never saw that work and the interface is very strange.

Other possibility: Think Pascal 4.0 works in OS 8.1. If you buy an OS 8.1 Mac from eBay for 5 $ that could be a cheap solution.

Other possibility: install an OS 7.5.3 emulator on your XP computer.

Things that look like Pascal:

1) MacMETH is a Modula-2 compiler that works in OS 9.2.2, it has a debugger but no linker.

2) MacOberon 4 and MacOberon/F work in OS 9.2.2, but they have a strange interface.

3) MacOberonLite 1.0 from July 1993 works in OS 9.2.2. It's free, it has a very easy interface and it makes very small programs, but it generates 68k code and it has no debugger (you have to use MacsBug). I tried that in OS 7 in 1995 and it works also in OS 9.2.2.

I installed Basilisk II on my XP computer with OS 7.5.3.
Then I could use Think Pascal 4.5, Think C 5.0 en MacOberonLite 1.0.

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but I'm not interested in trying things w/o linkers

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Codewarrior (from version 4 on) has excellent linker defaults when setting up a project. Think C/Pascal wasn't as friendly.

Codewarrior does nice PPC code. You can even create X applications using CarbonLib if you desire.

paulpen wrote:
Btw, Think Pascal 4.5 runs just fine on my G4 in OS 9.2.

If I try that, then I get the following error and I have to restart:

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