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Frank W McCormick

Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and
here is his go-ahead. Have fun!

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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:04:06 -0700
From: ""
To: "Frank W McCormick"
Subject: RE: Toolkit

Frank,

Sorry for the delay. I was out of the country.

Yes, please feel free to use it, but you will need to make sure that we do
not accept responsibility for these "derivative works", i.e. any defects that arise (even if they were in the original code) are your responsibility.
Just don't want to inherit any pursuit from your customers.

Good Luck... and send me a copy!

Best Regards,

Bob "TJ" Ainsbury

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-----Original Message----- From: Frank W McCormick Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:57 AM To: Subject: Tooklit Hi Bob. This email is to seek permission from you to port your TechnoJock toolkit for Turbo Pascal to the latest FPC compiler. We realize that not too many people are still using Turbo-Pascal, so it would seem logical your work could go on in another form. If you like I could release the code under a modified GPL. Hoping to hear from you. -- -------------- Frank McCormick Montreal --------------
Alan Mead
to Frank W McCormick

Frank,

This is cool. So, IIRC the original TTT sources have a whole lot of ASM code (I don't recall if it was ASM blocks on, I think my use pre-dated ASM blocks). Computers are so fast today that I wonder if it is needed; would we want to port the asm or just replace it with Pascal? (Hint, hint: I only know Pascal :)

-Alan

--- Frank W McCormick wrote 76 lines
Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and here is his go-ahead. Have fun! Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:04:06 -0700 From: "" To: "Frank W McCormick" Subject: RE: Toolkit Frank, Sorry for the delay. I was out of the country. Yes, please feel free to use it, but you will need to make sure that we do not accept responsibility for these "derivative works", i.e. any defects that arise (even if they were in the original code) are your responsibility. Just don't want to inherit any pursuit from your customers. Good Luck... and send me a copy! Best Regards, Bob "TJ" Ainsbury -----Original Message----- From: Frank W McCormick Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:57 AM To: Subject: Tooklit Hi Bob. This email is to seek permission from you to port your TechnoJock toolkit for Turbo Pascal to the latest FPC compiler. We realize that not too many people are still using Turbo-Pascal, so it would seem logical your work could go on in another form. If you like I could release the code under a modified GPL. Hoping to hear from you. -- -------------- Frank McCormick Montreal -------------- _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

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Florian Klaempfl
to Alan Mead

Alan Mead wrote:

Jonas made already TTT patches to throw out all asm iirc. But be patient, he's out of office this week :) If he doesn't read this email, email him personally.

I propose that we put the sources in the fpc contrib source tree.

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Frank, This is cool. So, IIRC the original TTT sources have a whole lot of ASM code (I don't recall if it was ASM blocks on, I think my use pre-dated ASM blocks). Computers are so fast today that I wonder if it is needed; would we want to port the asm or just replace it with Pascal? (Hint, hint: I only know Pascal :) -Alan --- Frank W McCormick wrote: > > Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob >Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and >here is his go-ahead. Have fun! > > > > > >Begin forwarded message: > >Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:04:06 -0700 >From: "" >To: "Frank W McCormick" >Subject: RE: Toolkit > > >Frank, > >Sorry for the delay. I was out of the country. > >Yes, please feel free to use it, but you will need to make sure >that we >do >not accept responsibility for these "derivative works", i.e. any >defects >that arise (even if they were in the original code) are your >responsibility. >Just don't want to inherit any pursuit from your customers. > >Good Luck... and send me a copy! > >Best Regards, > >Bob "TJ" Ainsbury > >-----Original Message----- >From: Frank W McCormick >Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:57 AM >To: >Subject: Tooklit > > > > > >Hi Bob. > > This email is to seek permission from you to port your >TechnoJock >toolkit for Turbo Pascal to the latest FPC compiler. > We realize that not too many >people are still using Turbo-Pascal, so it would seem logical your >work >could go on in another form. > If you like I could release the code under >a modified GPL. > > Hoping to hear from you.
Michael Van Canneyt
to Florian Klaempfl
Florian Klaempfl wrote 7 lines
Alan Mead wrote: Jonas made already TTT patches to throw out all asm iirc. But be patient, he's out of office this week :) If he doesn't read this email, email him personally. I propose that we put the sources in the fpc contrib source tree.

As soon as I get them, I can add them to the tree...

Michael.

Marco van de Voort
to Michael Van Canneyt
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On Tue, 25 May 2004, Florian Klaempfl wrote: > Alan Mead wrote: > > Jonas made already TTT patches to throw out all asm iirc. But be > patient, he's out of office this week :) If he doesn't read this email, > email him personally. > > I propose that we put the sources in the fpc contrib source tree. As soon as I get them, I can add them to the tree...

The complaints about CVS not updating are rolling in, so I guess that mean this has happened ;-)

Jonas Maebe
to Frank W McCormick: Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I…
Frank W McCormick wrote
Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and here is his go-ahead. Have fun!

My conversion is downloadable at
http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/fpc/ttt510fpc.zip

Note that this conversion *ONLY* works under go32v2. For other OS'es, the units must be converted to use the video/mouse/... units from our RTL. It may also contain some bugs, but it has been used in a real world program.

Also, the Makefile has been generated from the included Makefile.fpc using a very old version of fpcmake, but I can't regenerate it currently (fpcmake keeps complaining it can't find the necessary rtl's, not sure why)

Jonas

Marco van de Voort
to Jonas Maebe
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On 25-mei-04, at 17:35, Frank W McCormick wrote: > Last month a few people were inquiring about porting the Bob > Ainsbury toolkit to FPC - I tracked him down and > here is his go-ahead. Have fun! My conversion is downloadable at http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/fpc/ttt510fpc.zip Note that this conversion *ONLY* works under go32v2. For other OS'es, the units must be converted to use the video/mouse/... units from our RTL. It may also contain some bugs, but it has been used in a real world program. Also, the Makefile has been generated from the included Makefile.fpc using a very old version of fpcmake, but I can't regenerate it currently (fpcmake keeps complaining it can't find the necessary rtl's, not sure why)

Package support.

When generating outside the tree and encountering set FPCDIR to the fpc tree, and it will work fine.

Jonas Maebe
to Jonas Maebe: My conversion is downloadable at http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/fpc/ttt510fpc.zip Note…
Jonas Maebe wrote 7 lines
My conversion is downloadable at http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/fpc/ttt510fpc.zip Note that this conversion *ONLY* works under go32v2. For other OS'es, the units must be converted to use the video/mouse/... units from our RTL. It may also contain some bugs, but it has been used in a real world program.

Another thing to note is that this conversion is quite old and was tested when the new FPC version was may need some patching up for current versions, maybe it even doesn't compile anymore.

Jonas