Hi list,

I have a lot of old Pascal that I am getting interested in reviving. It was 
originally written in Lightspeed/THINK Pascal (did I mention it is old?) and 
around 2000-2002 I converted it to Codewarrior Pascal. These are both Macintosh 
dialects.

What are the prospects of running each of these dialects under FPC? Are there 
compatibility flags to set? Would there be much rewriting?

One of the things that I recall being possibly unique and possibly troublesome 
now is that under THINK Pascal, there was a built-in text I/O window and a 
built-in graphics drawing window, both of which I used. In the latter case, it 
was mainly MoveTo(x, y) and LineTo(x, y) stuff. When I moved to Codewarrior, I 
was somehow able to emulate that both text and drawing windows. I suppose the 
text window became a normal terminal (whatever Codewarrior offered). I can't 
remember if Codewarrior offered a drawing window or if I had to make a crude 
one using a (now) Carbon window.

What do you think?

Jerry
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