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Note from 1 December 2023

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 1 December 2023
  • development
  • 9 reactions

Turbo Pascal is 40!

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/111502805010199174

I created my first game with Turbo Pascal, back in 1986, thanks to TO7/70 computers available in my collège when I was in 3e (high school's 9th grade in the US).

The game was a lot like Flappy Bird! 😁

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  1. Nicolas H. avatar Nicolas H.
    @nhoizey I learnt on it, it was pleasant to code with this language. :)
    • 1 December 2023, 10:08
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  2. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    @Nico3333fr I agree! I already had experience with BASIC, but I preferred Turbo Pascal.
    • 1 December 2023, 10:25
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  3. Nicolas Hoizey avatar Nicolas Hoizey
    On my site, this note contains links.I know Mastodon accepts HTML and sanitize it, keeping `<a>` tags for links, but I’ve not yet been able to send HTML with the Mastodon API without it encoding and messing with the content… ????
    • 1 December 2023, 11:05
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