Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?

Re:Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M? by wideareanetwork on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:18PM (#27009443)

I’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal.

It’s my path to $2B.

Don’t tell anyone my idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M? by throwaway81523 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:59PM (#27009733)

That sounds kind of cool, but although the binaries of Turbo Pascal are now downloadable from Borland's successor at no charge, the source code was never released. That makes the proposition less interesting than it would otherwise be. BDS C source code was released into the public domain a few years ago, so that might be an alternative. Or you could use MSDOS/FreeDOS that would give you a lot more flexibility while staying a similar text-based spirit.

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Re:Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M? by browningstreet on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:56AM (#27016304)

Great. Time to buy up a working Osborne 1, then I can be 14 all over again.

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Re:Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M? by Zilcho on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:22PM (#27009483)

Write a windows like gui for it, and follow the path dos took upwards.

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