Re: Turbo Pascal 1.5 for Windows installation questions

[Stephen Geard]

Actually, it was easier than I thought.

I created a folder on my HDD called TPWin and then created within that a
number of subfolders called Disk1, Disk2, etc. And then copied the files
on diskette #1 into subfolder Disk1, diskette #2 into subfolder Disk2
etc. And then burned the whole TPWin folder onto a CD,
I then carried the CD to my friend's Win32 Vista PC and inserted the CD
and ran the setup.exe (or maybe it was install.exe) file in the Disk1
subfolder. It just ran without interuption!

It did not fail to find the files on the next floppy disk. It did not
prompt for their location. It was almost as if it expected to find them
in folders named Disk2, Disk3, etc. Too easy.

I warned my friend that there may be a problem with running TPWin
programs on machines with very fast CPU's (as some of you indicated
there may be) and gave him strict instructions to contact me if there
were any problems, but so far I have heard nothing, so I assume no problems.

Thanks to one and all.

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <Tp6dnTOsefYeu33XnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@ne
tspace.net.au>, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:32:21, Stephen Geard
<sdg...@ozemail.com.au> posted:

>I warned my friend that there may be a problem with running TPWin
>programs on machines with very fast CPU's (as some of you indicated
>there may be) and gave him strict instructions to contact me if there
>were any problems, but so far I have heard nothing, so I assume no
>problems.

The problem is in the CRT unit which (IIRC) TPW does not have.

<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-r200.htm>

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[Marco van de Voort]

On 2009-10-22, Dr J R Stockton <repl...@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I warned my friend that there may be a problem with running TPWin
>>programs on machines with very fast CPU's (as some of you indicated
>>there may be) and gave him strict instructions to contact me if there
>>were any problems, but so far I have heard nothing, so I assume no
>>problems.
>
> The problem is in the CRT unit which (IIRC) TPW does not have.

It does have wincrt. But the timingloop/sleep there is probably done using
Windows calls.

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <slrnhe2oig....@turtle.stack
.nl>, Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:59:12, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>
posted:

IIRC, the infallibility of the initialisation of Delay in WinCrt can be
attributed entirely to the non-existence of Delay and therefore its
initialisation.

In TPW Windows Reference Guide, dated 1991, thought to be version 1.5,
pages 102-103 support that by not having anything between them; though
that might not be the right place to look.

My Web page <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-r200.htm> adds
support by nowhere containing the case-independent string 'TPW'.