I'm assuming you found the source code, but my build scripts are not in there. My process is 100% not ideal, but I can walk you through the environment I set up. 2017), and before that it had been many year since I did anything in DOS, and I have not done anything since. ^_^ I made this game in a few weeks (Jan.

`SCREEN 13` was what I knew how to do, so it made sense to me to try using it again. Not sure about GNU Emacs, but there's probably some support 'somewhere'.I first learned programming in Turbo/Power Basic for DOS. Exuberant Ctags is old but has some support for BASIC (hence good for VILE, JED, VIM, or whatever else). Most people have third-party editors that they prefer over IDEs. > But what I like on the Powerbasic is the nice IDE. You shouldn't need them for normal apps just to use arrays. Even Modula-2/Oberon relegated them (well, raw 'addresses') to SYSTEM (only for low-level stuff). So Pascal, traditionally, was safer and easier. Unlike C which used them for everything (arrays decay into pointers). (Of course, FB is 32-bit DPMI, which is a different environment.)Īs you probably know, classic Pascal didn't use pointers (except for the heap). It has them, but I don't recall the syntax offhand. > And I am not sure how the pointers are implemented in FB. Why not Turbo Pascal or FPC's i8086-msdos? I know they're different languages with different legacies and strengths, just saying. > But OK, you have on mind the 16-bit environment. It's FOSS, multi-platform, supports (some) backwards compatibility, new extended syntax, compiles itself, has '-gen gcc', etc.

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