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Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript by jstanley on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:55PM (#26207880)
The author's blog post is quite enjoyable: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compi...

> My friend Fredrik Fatemi and I spent the summer after high school (1989) writing graphics programs in Turbo Pascal on his 286 PC (with EGA!) in his basement while watching The Princess Bride again and again on his VCR. He recently found some 3½" diskettes with our programs on it. I couldn’t find a good way to run them on my Mac, so naturally I wrote a Turbo Pascal compiler. It’s web based and you can try it here.[1]

[1] https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compi...

Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript by mseepgood on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:08PM (#26207992)
> I couldn’t find a good way to run them on my Mac

Dosbox / Boxer

Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript by sitkack on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:30PM (#26209131)
Good thing the author didn't know, ;) we now have a TP compiler in JavaScript!

Sometimes it is awesome when the right person doesn't know something.