Turbo Pascal 3.0 CP/M features and manual

[marquisor]

hello fellas

is there a manual around for this?
i can't use the editor without knowing the hotkeys at least.

and what are the possibilities? gfx/sfx?

it all runs in CP/M mode so i dunno how the other hardware is addressed there.

cheers

[LokalHorst]

Hi marquisor,

a scan of the original TP3 manual in PDF-format, can be found here:
http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/tp30/doc/info.html

but it doesn't contain any C128 specifics or CP/M+ (CPM3) changes.
I've patched the version 3.00a to correct some bugs related to that.
If you're interested in these, I can dig it out and link (or attach) it.
(I've later found out that there was a version 3.01a, so I might do it again, if anyone knows what has changed between those two versions)

Steve Goldsmith wrote a TP library for accessing VDC/SID & other C128 hardware, but i don't have a link at hand.
TP itself doesn't have build-in grafics or sound commands.
There was a GSX grafics extension for Amstrad computers, but as far as I know it was never ported to the C128.

Basically you access the hardware the same as outside CP/M, but if you want to use TP's 'in' and 'out' functions you'll have to patch it - it defaults to 8bit I/O addresses otherwise, or using inline ML-code instead.
example:
ld bc,0d600h ;for vdc
out (c),a

The editor uses some of the wordstar commands, if it's set up for ADM31 you can navigate with cursor keys etc. (ctrl+c returns to the main menu)

[marquisor]

thx for the link lokalhorst!

of course a patched more bugfree version is interesting.
i found out there is some super pascal 128 for native C128 mode?! it should be faster (2MHz 6502 mode) than the Z80 stuff?! and maybe has VIC/VDC/SID includes?

i'm looking for easy programming faster than BASIC and not that complex as ASM... i was familiar with pascal back in the 90s. C/C++ i cannot handle very good yet.

[airship]

Check out this thread.

[LokalHorst]

The promised updated Turbo Pascal 3.00a as 1571 disk-image-file.
(see info.txt for details)

[marquisor]

very nice, now it's complete, manual, bugfixed version and all.

thx to lokalhorst

as soon as i get time and on CP/M again i will try it.

10pm now...
logoff....


regards
marquisor