CompuServe Messages

Miles – If the programs are in Turbo Pascal, I believe the new HiSoft Pascal will be the most painless way to go. I haven't yet seen it, but word is it's Turbo-compatible at least up to machine-dependent stuff. I don't know about "several Pascal" compilers – I only know of one really old commercial one and one PD (shareware?) one. I was looking very hard for one a few months back (I was porting an MSDOS program to the Amiga that was written in Turbo) and ended up doing it in Modula-2 because I couldn't find a Pascal (HiSoft hadn't been announced let alone made available at that time). Besides the language, what's needed to in order to port depends on what the program does and how. Graphics routines may need to be partially or totally rewritten, since resolutions and palettes vary between machines. Also, methods of reading the keyboard and writing to the screen are different. You'll need to choose between a CLI-type display (like native MSDOS) or using Intuition (mouse, windows, buttons, etc.). Hope this helps some. – via Whap!