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Old Turbo Pascal programs

Those are programs that I wrote while I was a kid.

It is a bit difficult to know the exact dates because most files are dated from 1990 or 1991 but I remember that most of them were programmed on an [Olivetti Prodest PC1][] with a CGA onboard display chipset. Some programs were developed on Turbo Pascal 4. some others on Turbo Pascal 5. So, they should date from 1988 to 1991.

I retrieved them from 720k floppy disks which were still readable today (2014) using a cheap USB floppy drive.

[Olivetti Prodest PC1]: http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/prodestpc1.html

Use

Each directory contains a program. I also provide the appropriate version of Turbo Pascal 5.5 in TP/. This is by no mean legal, but I don't think anyone will care (also, it seems Borland [released it for free][] in 2002). The best way to use all that is [DOSBox][]. The compiled executables are also provided since they are small and allow one to quickly test a program without compiling it.

[DOSBox]: http://www.dosbox.com/ [released it for free]: http://www.doshaven.eu/programming-tools/

Programs

• castle/: an unfinished castle adventure (see the screenshot below).
• diamant/: an unfinished reimplementation of [Boulder Dash][].
• fantome/: an illustrated adventure game, a la Zork.
• geo/: a program to learn major French cities.
• manoir/: a point and click adventure game in an haunted mansion (see the screenshot below).
• manoir2/: the sequel to the previous game.
• martiens/: a game where you need to prevent an ET to land.
• morse/: translate keys to morse code.
• paint3/: a drawing program. It has been used to draw other graphics as it can export pictures directly in Pascal code.
• resist/: a program to train to read resistor values using the appropriate color codes.
• space/: a game where you need to fly through screen without colliding with other objects (see the screenshot below).
• thedraw/: a drawing program. The menu can be displayed with a right-click.
• think/: some game but I didn't remember the purpose. Cool graphics!
• water-po/: a water polo game.

[Boulder Dash]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash

Here are a few screenshots: