Retro programming

 

So, I am a fan of programming with Basic and Pascal. And it was a times, when I saw and a little try to program in MSX KUVT2, QBasic, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic 6, Delphi 7. But in those days, mainly, I can write several commands. And a rather simple programs to write. Not more. And I have a very positive memories with this soft.

And, one moment, during education, I like a lot course of Turbo Pascal, Delphi. It was my fav subject. And while I hate math. It was all the time too hard. And this style of programming I like a lot. And it is a pity that programming was ended with it starting course.

Visual Basic 6 I can remember with big pleasure. And I was going for some courses even. It was interesting. And I even wrote some game with walking by pictures.

And, looks like, I like those things a lot. And I have a warm memory. And I disagree with position, that they are old. Basic, Pascal, Visual Basic, Delphi – it is a coolest soft. Coolest programming languages and even for today, I think.

You can learn programming with them, you can learn how make a logic mind, write simple programs, make games. You can dig retro programming, learn more about retro theme. So, it is a standalone theme, saying one word. I while I can try to use this thing even today, by my personal point of interest.

Today, there are, possibilities, to have a modern analogues. They supported by their authors. And projects are in developing state.

So here they are modern versions of IDE:

QB64 – Modern version for Basic programming

Free Pascal – analogue to Turbo Pascal.

Pascal ABC – Pascal with Russian language support, there is version with support NET

Lazarus – modern version of Delphi with built in free pascal programming

And there is one more. Not so new. It is Dark Basic. I guess, it is not supported by authors. I never try it yet.

Dark Basic – as I get it, it is something like Visual Basic with support of graphics for videogames. I never try it.

It is about modern solutions. All of them are modern and support by developers. Today. Except Dark Basic. I never try it yet. I don’t know, for sure. But it is going here as some variation for Visual Basic here.

And I can say that if you have old computer, then you can install there classic like Visual Studio 6 or 97. With such components like Visual Basic 6, Visual C. Or Delhi 7. Turbo Pascal.

In result, retro rules!