dos322 files missing -- unavailable for dl

[inlink]

Greetings,

I was wanting to check-out fpc used on  an old DOS machine and I'm finding that neither on Sourceforge nor on the pages of the fpc site are any of the files (either .zip, full.zip, or any individual files) actually available--on sourceforge the .zip file link itself is missing entirely, on the site all the links are broken.

I didn't see a problem-reports area so went to this general "doesn't fit elsewhere" area -- if I'm in the wrong spot I apologize, feel free to correct me and move this post. Just thought the fpc team should know about the busted links/missing files issue!

[Thaddy]

What exactly is your problem? It doesn't make sense.(to me)
For DOS use Dosbox and compile the cross compiler for x86.
Or simply download the original TurboPascal from the Embarcadero website. It is free.
(1.0, 3.0, 5.5, 7)
Needs an account to download, but the account is never misused.
Although, technically, the fpc cross compiler is better.

What you need to understand that is that FPC needs to be built from source for some platforms. If that is a problem for you, ping me and I do it for you.

[dbannon]

While I have never used it and might be quite wrong, this might be what you need ?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/msdos/3.2.2/  maybe the one that ends with msdos.exe ??

Others in there look like cross compilers, you would install them on a current machine and make code for the oldie.

( https://www.freepascal.org/download.html, under Intel 8086 click MSDOS )

And I reckon Thaddy's suggestion of getting the original is probably a good idea too. I still have the book somewhere here ....

Davo

[marcov]

I was wanting to check-out fpc used on  an old DOS machine and I'm finding that neither on Sourceforge nor on the pages of the fpc site are any of the files (either .zip, full.zip, or any individual files) actually available--on sourceforge the
.zip file link itself is missing entirely, on the site all the links are broken.

I just clikced on to here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/DOS_Go32v2/3.2.2/ and could download dos322full.zip  without problems. See dbannon for the 16-bit compiler.

Maybe you have an antivirus playing interference?

[Thaddy]

And I reckon Thaddy's suggestion of getting the original is probably a good idea too. I still have the book somewhere here ....

Davo

Davo, note that these free versions might need the patches installed too (also free), because they suffer from a timing problem.
I broke my brains trying to fix that.( for TP7, I did not fix that, Danny did. )
But indeed, if you are interested in software archeology, it is free and I would recommend every FPC user to download them, because it is part of our history too: Florian started all this because of that when he was a student.
Shiver about the size of TP1, which will fit in cache memory nowadays. But the FPC compiler, some 40 years later, generates better code.

really, do it!