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While looking around for documentation on ACK's native tongue of Turbo Pascal, I found the Turbo Pascal Programmer's Page:

http://www.devq.net/pascal/

There is a free downloadable electronic book linked there (The Turbo Pascal Reference by Ed Mitchell) which would be highly useful to anyone working with the ACK source code.

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/tpr-book.zip

This guide covers Turbo Pascal 6.0 and 7.0. I'm not sure which version ACK uses exactly - does anyone remember if Chris mentioned it or not? Anyway, it should be a useful reference in any case.

rld wrote:While looking around for documentation on ACK's native tongue of Turbo Pascal, I found the Turbo Pascal Programmer's Page:

http://www.devq.net/pascal/

There is a free downloadable electronic book linked there (The Turbo Pascal Reference by Ed Mitchell) which would be highly useful to anyone working with the ACK source code.

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/tpr-book.zip

This guide covers Turbo Pascal 6.0 and 7.0. I'm not sure which version ACK uses exactly - does anyone remember if Chris mentioned it or not? Anyway, it should be a useful reference in any case.

Are you serious? Are you only planning to write a program that runs under DOS? I would think you'd be using Delphi in order to allow the program to be run under Windows.

But if you're going to use something like TP6 or 7, I'd consider going with Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org) which is an open-source Pascal compiler which they are attempting to make compatible with TP6/7 and can compile for both DOS/Windows and Linux.

Tdarcos wrote:

rld wrote:While looking around for documentation on ACK's native tongue of Turbo Pascal, I found the Turbo Pascal Programmer's Page:

http://www.devq.net/pascal/

There is a free downloadable electronic book linked there (The Turbo Pascal Reference by Ed Mitchell) which would be highly useful to anyone working with the ACK source code.

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/tpr-book.zip

This guide covers Turbo Pascal 6.0 and 7.0. I'm not sure which version ACK uses exactly - does anyone remember if Chris mentioned it or not? Anyway, it should be a useful reference in any case.

Are you serious? Are you only planning to write a program that runs under DOS? I would think you'd be using Delphi in order to allow the program to be run under Windows.

But if you're going to use something like TP6 or 7, I'd consider going with Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org) which is an open-source Pascal compiler which they are attempting to make compatible with TP6/7 and can compile for both DOS/Windows and Linux.

ACK (Adventure Creation Kit) was originally written (by Chris H, not by me) in DOS Turbo Pascal. The code dates from the late 80s/early 90s, or thereabouts. It will run under Windows, but this requires the use of the DOSBox emulator.

For more info and downloads, see http://www.80sgaming.org/ack/.