Re: Borland Pascal/Turbo Pascal under WinXP

From: gswork (gswork_at_mailcity.com)
Date: 12/23/03 

Date: 23 Dec 2003 00:59:35 -0800

guggi@netcologne.de (Tobias Guggenmoser) wrote in message news:<569cad78.0312221220.3b7edddd@posting.google.com>...
> I have a question concerning Windows XP and Borland Pascal 7.0.
> It perfectly works with my Win2k SP4 PC, but a friend of mine has
> WinXP Home Edition and cannot get it running in fullscreen mode. BP
> and TP (both version 6 and 7) can be started in a DOS box, but they
> don't react to keyboard or mouse any more when switched to fullscreen
> (which is needed, e.g. for 13h video mode).
> Does anyone know where the problem is? Win95 compatibility mode
> doesn't help.
>
> Greetings
> Tobias G.

BP suite of apps are 1992 vintage (IIRC) and i think they were written
to be efficient on DOS (&win16) systems, so there may well be some DOS
specifics going on that cause XP to trip up.

In addition to the borland newsgroups comp.lang.pascal.borland may
help out

Not so sure about XP but is there a 'DOS compatibility mode'? Can he
get it working when not in fullscreen? IMO, BP looks fine when you
choose suitable font sizes.

The other thing to consider is to move away from BP and on to
Freepascal which is available for Win32 and is very close to BP in
terms of compatibility.

If that's not for you, considerer using the command line compiler
(assuming that still works) and forego the IDE (but choose another
free one, sourceedit perhaps)

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