Author: Stan Arts
Date: 00:50:24 04/21/05
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Hi Tanya, Yes Free Pascal is a very good compiler. It's much better then Turbo Pascal, when it comes to modern computers. Turbo Pascal is limited to a 64kb main program (in text size) , only accessing "conventional" memory (very little memory) in an easy way, etc. Free Pascal uses memory in a modern way. (Use all of it, in an easy way.) Turbo Pascal is 16 bit, and you even have to do some trouble to use 286 instructions and 286 assembly.(very oldfashioned) And has a lot of other limitations. Free Pascal is 32 bit and optimised for modern day computers, also reads modern- day assembly and it's a powerfull language/compiler. Also, if you try to write a chessengine, you can not make a Turbo Pascal (because it becomes a DOS application) program communicate with winboard or another Gui the way most Gui's communicate. (With Free Pascal you can make windows, Linux and other OS's applications.) To see how powerfull Free Pascal is you can try my game Shape of chaos, (compiled with 1.0.10) , that does a LOT of calculating each screenframe. Have you started to write a chessprogram or another program in Turbo Pascal? How is it going so far? Stan On April 20, 2005 at 21:38:59, Tanya Deborah wrote: > > >Hi to all. > > > I download Free Pascal from http://www.freepascal.org/down-win32.html and i > >want to know if this compiler is good enough as the old Turbo Pascal 7 compiler. > >I read that the Free Pascal is a 32-64 bits compiler.. Somebody has experience >using this compiler?? Is the better compiler for Pascal ?? > >Somebody can tell me about the characteristics of each one? (Good and bad >things...etc, etc) > > >Thank you very much > >Greetings, > > Tanya Deborah
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