Virtual Pascal: Difference between revisions

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Virtual Pascal is a cross-platform 32-bit Pascal development system that mimics classic Turbo Pascal. It sports a compiler, linker and debugger, targets OS/2, 32 bit Microsoft Windows (Windows 95 and Up), some 32-bit DOS extenders and has experimental support for Linux, it open architecture allows this compatibility to be extended in theory to more Intel-based operating systems, including full source-level debugging but due to the discontinuation of the project that is unlikely to ever happen.

Notably, VP has better support for Borland and Turbo Pascal code than any other 32 bit tool, including later Borland systems and the compiler itself is written entirely in assembly language.

Version

1995: Virtual Pascal 1.0
1996: Virtual Pascal 1.1
Latest version: Virtual Pascal v2.1 (Build 279, Beta) (22 Aug 2004)

There have bee occasional talks about releasing a bug-fix version from time to time but nothing has happened in the matter since early 2009.

Links, additional software & publications

Virtual Pascal v2.1 (Build 279, Beta)
Official homepage: http://vpascal.ning.com/

Licence

Freeware - Discontinued.

Authors & publishers

Vitaly Miryanov (Original author)
fPrint Software (Original publisher)
Allan Mertner (Current code owner and maintainer)

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-==Description==
+Virtual Pascal is a cross-platform 32-bit [[Pascal]] development system that mimics classic [[Turbo Pascal]]. It sports a compiler, linker and debugger, targets  OS/2, 32 bit [[Microsoft Windows]] (Windows 95 and Up), some 32-bit DOS extenders and has experimental support for [[Linux]], it open architecture allows this compatibility to be extended in theory to more Intel-based operating systems, including full source-level debugging but due to the discontinuation of the project that is unlikely to ever happen.
-VP is a cross-platform 32-bit [[Pascal]] compiler, linker and debugger, which supports OS/2, 32 bit [[Microsoft Windows]] (Windows 95 and Up), some 32-bit DOS extenders and includes experimental support for Linux. Its open architecture allows this compatibility to be extended to more Intel-based operating systems, including full source-level debugging. VP has better support for Borland and [[Turbo Pascal]] code than any other 32 bit tool, including later [[Borland]] systems.
-This compiler itself is written entirely in [[assembly language]].
+Notably, VP has better support for Borland and [[Turbo Pascal]] code than any other 32 bit tool, including later [[Borland]] systems and the compiler itself is written entirely in [[assembly language]].
 ==Version==
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 : There have bee occasional talks about releasing a bug-fix version from time to time but nothing has happened in the matter since early 2009.
-==Links==
+==Links, additional software & publications==
 * [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/pascal/vp21b279.zip Virtual Pascal v2.1 (Build 279, Beta)]
 * Official homepage: http://vpascal.ning.com/
+===Source code===
 * [http://home.comcast.net/~JamesMClark5/Pascal/ Sundry source code for Virtual Pascal] by James M. Clark
+* [[TCP/IP Toolkit for Virtual Pascal]]
+===Publications===
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051229123159/http://www.vpascal.com/ug/UsersGuideFrontPage.htm Virtual Pascal V2.1 User's Guide]
-==License==
+====Local articles====
+* A review of [[Virtual Pascal 2.1]] by [[Robert Basler]]
+==Licence==
 * Freeware - Discontinued.
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 * [[Allan Mertner]] (Current code owner and maintainer)
-==Publications==
-* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051229123159/http://www.vpascal.com/ug/UsersGuideFrontPage.htm  Virtual Pascal V2.1 User's Guide]
-====Local articles====
-* A review of [[Virtual Pascal 2.1]] by [[Robert Basler]]
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