Free turbo software for linux

Quarters Board Game project is a strategy game for two players.

Although its rules are relatively simple, it still offers some of the same opportunities for skill as in chess.

This program was originally conceived in the summer of 1986 during a study of the mini-max algorithm for chess playing computers, and was thus designed to offer some of the same type of strategies.

The game was originally written in BASIC, then ported to Turbo Pascal, then to C, and finally to Java.

The Java version is not necessarily object oriented, since it is a crude port from the C version.

MGRX project is a 2D graphics library derived from the GRX library. GRX was originaly written by Csaba Biegl for DJ Delories DOS port of the GCC compiler. MGRX supports four platforms: DOS (DJGPPv2), Linux console, Linux X11 and Win32 (Mingw). On DOS it supports VGA and VESA compliant cards. On Linux console it uses the framebuffer. On X11 and Win32 it runs in a window.

Why MGRX

MGRX is a fork of GRX. Because I liked the GRX C API interface, I began to maintain GRX when it was orphaned at the end of 2000. But GRX has not only the C API, it has a Pascal API, a BGI compatibility API, support for Turbo C, Wattcom, MSC and some X11 implementations over mainframes. At the end it was not funny, to easy to break things I dont know (and dont want to know). So I stoped my job maintainig GRX at the end of 2003. At the time I write this, GRX is still orphaned.

But in the mean time I developed a fork for my own use, only the C API, no Pascal, no BGI, no Turbo C support, only the 4 platforms I can test. And a new (and better I think) input API. And now I have released it, only for fun.

Supported platforms:

Latest versions of OS, compiler, and key software tested:
Linux X11: linux 2.6.18, Xorg 7.2, gcc 4.1.2
Linux fb: linux 2.6.18, gcc 4.1.2
DJGPP: djdev 2.03, gcc 4.1.2
Win32: Windows XP, MinGW 3.1.0-1

Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 or 64 bit (from 1.9.6) pascal compiler. Free Pascal Compiler is available for different processors Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64 (from 1.9.6), PowerPC (from 1.9.2), Sparc (from 1.9.6) and Motorola 680x0 (1.0.x only).
The following operating systems are supported Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOSX/Darwin, MacOS classic, DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, SunOS (Solaris), QNX and Classic Amiga.
Main features:
- Very clean language Pascal is a very nice language, your programs will be more readable and maintainable than for example in C, and lets even forget about C++. And you dont need to give up the power, the Pascal language is as powerful as you want it.
- No Makefiles Unlike most programming languages, Pascal does not need Makefiles. You can save huge amounts of time, the compiler just figures out itself which files need to be recompiled.
- Pascal compilers are Fast with a big F and Free Pascal is no exception. Yes, you no longer need to grow roots while compiling your programs, just hit the compile key and its done, even for large programs.
- Each unit has its own identifiers In Pascal you never need to worry about polluting the namespace, like in C where an identifier needs to be unique accross the entire program. No, in Pascal each unit gets its own namespace and thats very relaxed.
- Integrated development environment Free Pascal comes with an IDE which work on several platforms, in which you can write, compile and debug your programs. You will save huge amounts of time using the IDE, the best programming friend you have.
- Great integration with assembler Do you think pascal is for wimps who need to learn programming? WRONG! Its excellent for high tech programming and for the supreme nerds among you we have the integrated assemblers. You can easily mix assembler code and Pascal code, in the language you wish? Prefer Intel styled assembler? No problem, if its needed Free Pascal will convert it to ATT for you. Do you want to convert your program into a source file for Nasm? No problem, and all ATT assembler in your source files is automatically converted.
- Object oriented programming And if you do the serious programming, you are of course very interested in object oriented programming. Use the Turbo Pascal and Object Pascal ways of OOP according to your taste. The FCL and Free Vision and provide you with the powerful object libraries you need. For your database needs we support PostgreSQL, MySQL, Interbase and ODBC.
- Smartlinking Free Pascals smart linker leaves out any variable or code that you do not use. That makes small programs small with a big S, while they are still statically linked, avoiding DLL hell!
- Distribution independence (Linux) As a result of this, software compiled by the Linux version of Free Pascal runs on any Linux distribution, making it much, much, easier to make your software support multiple Linux distributions.
- Available for a lot of platforms on several architectures Free Pascal is available for more platforms than most other Pascal compilers and allows easy cross-compiling, just change the target in the IDE and compile! And there is work going on for even more platforms and processors.
- Compatible Have existing code? Free Pascal is more compatible with it than any other Pascal compiler. We are almost completely compatible with Turbo Pascal and quite well compatible with Delphi source code. If you have code in another language, like C or assembler, just use favorite compiler for it and call it from Free Pascal.
Version restrictions:
- For the intel 80x86 version at least a 386 processor is required, but a 486 is recommended. For the motorola 680x0 version, a 68020 or later processor is recommended. In all cases, a minimum of 8 Megabytes of RAM is recommended, but the compiler is reported to work with 4 Megabytes of RAM.

PHP IDN is the PHP(4) API for the GNU LibIDN software made by Simon Josefsson. Its intention is to have international characters in the DNS system. See more about the library at Josefsson LibIDN page.

To checkout the code, execute the following two lines after each other. As of version 0.7 (which will be released later today Jan 12, 2004), PHP-IDN can be made externaly from the PHP sources. Just check it out (or unpack the distribution tarball, see below) in a directory of your choice.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.bayour.com:/var/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.bayour.com:/var/cvs co idn

XBlast is a multi-player arcade game for X11R5/R6 (v2.6 or TNT) and Windows (TNT version only). The game can be played with at least two players and up to six players.

XBlast was inspired by the video/computer game Bomberman (Dynablaster), which was to my knowledge first programmed for NECs PC Engine/Turbo Grafx.

Other commercial versions of the original game exist for IBM-PC, Atari ST, Amiga [trop cool lAmiga], NES, GameBoy and Super NES.

The STed is the high-performance MIDI sequence editor / Music composer system. It had been working on X680x0 old Japanese personal workstation. The STed was originally developed by Mr. Takayuki "TURBO" Toda.
Through many volunteers good office the source code of the STed has been opened. Since I am an user of original STed (working on X680x0) and regret that development is discontinued forever, I decide to port the STed to UNIX & X environment.
Enhancements:
- sted2/Makefile.am: Fixed missing entry: sted3.h. (Thanks to hma@syd.odn.ne.jp)
- sted2/sub/rcdcheck.c: Fixed methos of creation temporary file: replacing using tmpnam to mkstemp.
- sted2/*.c: Added #ifdef HAVE_SUPPORT_STED3 to each sted3-related codes.
- Updated automake to 1.7, and autoconf to 2.54