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Mad-Pascal

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Turbo Pascal

Full Pascal Programming Crash Course - Basics to Advanced

Introduction

Mad-Pascal (MP) is a 32-bit Turbo Pascal compiler for Atari 8-Bit and other MOS 6502 CPU-based computers. By design, it is compatible with the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) (the -MDelphi switch should be active). This means the possibility of obtaining executable code for Atari 8-bit, Windows, and every other platform for which FPC exists. Mad-Pascal is not a port of FPC. It has been written based on SUB-Pascal (2009) and XD-Pascal (2010), the author of which is Vasiliy Tereshkov.

MP uses 64KB of primary memory. The class TMemoryStream provides access to extended memory. A program that works on Atari 8-Bit might have problems on Windows and other platforms if, for example, the pointers have not been initialized with the address of a variable. Writing via an uninitialized pointer results in an attempt to write to the address 0x0 and causes a memory protection fault.

The strengths of MP include the fast and convenient possibility of including inline assembly. A program using inline ASM only works on platforms with MOS 6502 CPU.

Variable allocation is static. There is no dynamic memory management. Parameters are passed to functions by value, variable, or constant.

The available features are:

• If Case For To For In While Repeat statements
• Compound statements
• Label Goto statements
• Arithmetic and boolean operators
• Procedures and functions with up to 8 parameters. The returned value of a function is assigned to a predefined RESULT variable
• Static local variables
• Primitive data types, all types except the ShortReal and Real types are compatible. Pointers are dereferenced as pointers to Word:
  • Cardinal Word Byte Boolean
  • Integer SmallInt ShortInt
  • Char String PChar
  • Pointer File Text
  • ShortReal Real fixed-point
  • Float16
  • Single / Float
• One-dimensional and Two-dimensional arrays (with zero lower bound) of any primitive type. Arrays are treated as pointers to their origins (like in C) and can be passed to subroutines as parameters
• Predefined type String [N] which is equivalent to array [0..N] of Char
• Type aliases
• Records
• Objects
• Separate program modules (PROGRAM, UNIT, LIBRARY)
• Recursion

Compile

src\

fpc -MDelphi -vh -O3 mp.pas

Usage

WUDSN and Mad-Pascal

Mad-Pascal i Geany

Atari 8-Bit

mp.exe filename.pas -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib
mads.exe filename.a65 -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base

BAT

    <MadPascalPath>\MP.exe %1 -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\blibs

    if exist %~dp1%~n1.a65 (
        mads.exe "%~dp1%~n1.a65" -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base
        if exist "%~dp1%~n1.obx" altirra "%~dp1%~n1.obx"
    )

Commodore 64

mp.exe -t c64 filename.pas -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib
mads.exe filename.a65 -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base

Commodore Plus/4

mp.exe -t c4p filename.pas -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib
mads.exe filename.a65 -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base

Neo6502

mp.exe -t neo filename.pas -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib
mads.exe filename.a65 -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base

Mad-Pascal for Neo6502

RAW

mp.exe -t raw filename.pas -ipath:<MadPascalPath>\lib
mads.exe filename.a65 -x -i:<MadPascalPath>\base

Tools

Projects in Mad-Pascal

A8 Mad-Pascal Window Library

This text-mode windowing library has window controls and modern gadgets (widgets). The gadgets allow you to build input forms that use buttons, radio buttons, input strings (with scrolled lengths and type restrictions), check boxes, progress bars, etc. This allows you to build applications with "modern" interfaces.

Mad-Pascal libraries

Compression / Decompression

• LZJB -> unit, sample
• RDC -> unit, sample
• LZW -> sample
• LZH -> sample
• LZRW1KH -> unit, sample

Decompression

• DEFLATE -> unit, sample
• APL -> unit, sample
• LZ4 -> unit, sample
• PACKFIRE -> unit, sample
• POWER PACKER -> unit, sample
• SNAPPY -> unit, sample
• UPKR -> unit, sample
• ZX0 -> unit, sample
• ZX2 -> unit, sample
• ZX5 -> unit, sample

VBXE

• Gif 87/89
• ANSI

Benchmarks

[https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal/blob/master/samples/benchmark.7z](https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal/blob/master/samples/benchmark.7z)

Floating Point

• MP Single: IEEE754-32bit
• MP Real: Q24.8 Fixed Point

[https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal/blob/master/samples/fp_benchmark.7z](https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal/blob/master/samples/fp_benchmark.7z)

Suite

sources

Links

• HOME Page
• Mad-Pascal on Atari Age Forum
• Games in Mad-Pascal
• Mad-Pascal examples
• Mad-Pascal on Atari Area Forum
• Mad-Pascal Announcement for WUDSN
• Some advice
• Programowanie w Mad-Pascal dla C+4
• Commodore Plus/4, Mad-Pascal i bitmapy

Pascal related

• Awesome Pascal
• Demoscene samples
• Turbo Pascal vintage collection
• Nero 5 Chess program
• KC Chess
• FreePascal meets SDL

YouTube

• WUDSN IDE Tutorial
• Arcadia
• Flob
• ProHiBan (Sokoban)
• The Hangmad
• gravity
• Block Attack
• Turbo Pascal "Sokoban"
• Tron +4. Mad-Pascal i C+4
• Mad-Pascal Commodore Plus/4 plasma effect with TEDzakker demo music
• Dungeon Adventurer
• Time Wizard

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