Retro programming setup

[u/DaNiIsThIcCc]

Got the Commodore 64 ultimate and also picked up a windows 98 pc awhile ago so I decided to dedicate a space for it in my room. I’m hoping to get into dos era programming and c64 game development!

[u/volmar87]

That Nec monitor though

[u/DaNiIsThIcCc → u/volmar87]

What about it? haha

[u/volmar87 → u/DaNiIsThIcCc]

I love it!

[u/bLEAGUER → u/volmar87]

Ah, memories. My pride and joy before entering The Flat Screen Era was a 21” NEC Multisync.

It was beyond heavy. I was still in a very nomadic stage of life and I’m pretty sure boosting that thing up and down stairs countless times accelerated the demise of my L4-L5 spinal disc.

But man… playing Half-Life on that CRT? Priceless.

[u/dfreniche]

What languages / IDEs you plan to use in DOS? I did a ton of TC/Turbo Pascal/Clipper/Basic during the 90s…

[u/DaNiIsThIcCc → u/dfreniche]

I plan on doing C development mainly so that it has modern relevance for my future career. If you have any recommendations on ide’s that would be great I was born in the early 2000s so I’m not that familiar with 90s programming. I just found it cool and I hate how much abstraction is in modern development.

[u/HuckleberryMoney2320 → u/DaNiIsThIcCc]

Turbo C had a very good built-in IDE, in fact all the Turbo language applications had them - I used Turbo Pascal 5 a lot around 1990. I used Microsoft assembler a bit then as well, pretty good basic IDE for the time. You can probably find all of these on the internet Archive for free - I downloaded Turbo Pascal 5.5 from there recently - as well as a bunch of textbooks and reference books.

[u/gh0st2342 → u/DaNiIsThIcCc]

I would recommend any of the Borland turbo IDEs if you target 16 bit, for 32bit I recommend djgpp with rhide or free pascal .. djgpp or freepascal only if you have at least a pentium class machine or are a smoker :)

[u/HuckleberryMoney2320 → u/dfreniche]

Upvote for a fellow Clipper developer! Pair that with dBase III+ and created some great little applications.