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Pascal was one of a few “serious” programming languages popular with home computer users in the late 1970s and early 80s. Pascal did not require line numbers and focused more on procedures and functions. Versions of Pascal were available for the:
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Library of LarKen Procedures and Functions in HiSoft PASCAL for Sequential File Handling This HiSoft PASCAL source code provides the procedures and functions required for reading and writing sequential files to a LarKen... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1998 | |
| Addressing Devices in Pascal Pascal is a language that was designed to work with files, rather than channels (as BASIC does). In general terms,... | Mel MacKaron | QL Report | July 15, 1987 |
| Alternative Computer Languages for the ZX81: Partial Pascal PASCAL was inverted by Nicklaus Winth in the 1960s to be used as a programming teaching lanquage. PASCAL (named for... | The Sinc Times (2) | January 1988 | |
| Amateur Programmers’ Line: Amateur Programming as a Niche Essay examining whether amateur computer programming has become a niche hobby, comparing it to the historical arc of amateur radio... | Bill Harmer | TS Bulletin | March 1990 |
| Amateur Programmers’ Line: The Future of BASIC Extended opinion column arguing that BASIC remains viable for amateur programmers across all platforms, including the Sinclair range. Harmer discusses... | Bill Harmer | TS Bulletin | February 1990 |
| Benchmarking the ZX81 The term “benchmarking” refers to the process of running a computer program on a computer and comparing the time needed... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 1992 | |
| Brief Overview of Artifical Intelligence on the Spectrum | Nite-Times News | March 1987 | |
| Bugs, Fixes, and Compatibility Notes Discussion of technical compatibility questions from around the community: interfacing a Commodore 64 disk drive to the TS2068 (reportedly attempted... | Bill Harmer | TS Bulletin | February 1990 |
| CATS Sees PASCAL and QL Network A lesson on PASCAL programing-using networked QL computers-was the special treat provided attendees at the June CATS meeting. DUANE PARKER... | Charles Hank Dickson | CATS Newsletter | August 1989 |
| Cellular Automata Back in college, I was short 1/2 a unit from graduating. To make up the unit, I enrolled in a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Changing the Permanent Screen Attributes From Within a HiSoft Pascal Program The ZX Spectrum and the Timex/Sinclair 2068 have four screen attributes which are controlled in Sinclair basic by the key... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1999 | |
| Character String Emulation In HiSoft Pascal One of the common gripes about HiSoft™ Pascal Version 4 for theTimex/Sinclair 2068 is its lack of built-in operators for... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 1999 | |
| Character String Emulation in Hisoft Pascal Version 4 Routines to handle strings in Pascal. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| Datastore() and Datafetch(): Two Larken DOS Procedures for Hisoft Pascal Transfer any section of RAM to a file on disk. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| DataStore() and DataFetch(): Two LarKen DOS Procedures for HiSoft PASCAL When you have become spoiled by having a disk drive system on your Timex/Sinclair 2068, such as I have, you... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1998 | |
| Editor Ramblings 2068 peripherals available from 21st Century Electronics. Partial Pascal available for TS 1000. Tax prep software from K-Soft. EPROM burner... | Synchro-Sette | February 1984 | |
| Font Loader in HiSoft Pascal One of the attractions of the Timex/Sinclair 2068 is its ability to change its screen font through the use of... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Summer 1999 | |
| Forum Monochrome monitor compatibility; Pascal help wanted; 2068 Art revisited; 2068 business graphics wanted; keyboard troubles; ink jet woes; more on... | SyncWare News | Nov-Dec 1986 | |
| Function for Creating User Defined Graphics (UDGs) in HiSoft Pascal Unlike Sinclair BASIC, HiSoft Pascal does not have any reserved words like BIN to allow the user to create User... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Autumn 1999 | |
| Graphics Procedures for HiSoft Pascal The following HiSoft Pascal source code augments and provides some alternative methods to the graphic functions and procedures provided in... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Spring 2001 | |
| JRT Pascal Using JRT Pascal with RP/M on an AERCO FD-68. | The Data Expansion | January 1988 | |
| JRT Pascal The last time I said that we needed to get going on the main module of the program, but it... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| JRT Pascal – Finally, a Program When writing in Pascal, you should use what is called the. *top-down” design method using modular building blacks. The top-down... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | March 1988 |
| JRT Pascal – Programming Language I said that last time we might actually begin writting a program in PASCAL using the JRT PASCAL system for... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| JRT-Pascal Review of the compiler, as run on an AERCO RP/M system. | The Data Expansion | December 1987 | |
| Larken Electronics Original designers of ZX81/TS 1000 LDOS and TS 2068 LKDOS turning attention to computer-controlled shaper/router/plotter, driven by IBM PC compatible.... | TS Bulletin | September 1990 | |
| News of a Local Nature and Larken Electronics Update Reports on a September 1990 Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting (5 members), noting continued use of Timex/Sinclair computers alongside IBM compatibles, and... | Bill Harmer | TS Bulletin | September 1990 |
| Oh! Pascal! One of the most friendly textbooks the reviewer has encountered. | T-S Horizons | February/March 1986 | |
| Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting Exchange of experiences in Pascal programming; Dave Solly using HiSoft Pascal on TS 2068. | TS Bulletin | March 1990 | |
| Part-Way Down the Road with Partial Pascal Partial Pascal from Semper Software was the subject of an earlier review. This is a follow-up which includes a book... | T-S Horizons | April 1986 | |
| Partial Pascal [Review] Review of a Pascal editor/compiler for the 1000. | T-S Horizons | November 1984 | |
| Partial Pascal: A Backup Procedure Description of how Partial Pascal works, how to backup the program. | Timex Sinclair User Group Newsletter: Ottawa Chapter | December 1985 | |
| Pascal Brief description of PASCAL. | ZX-Appeal | September 1986 | |
| Pascal Disk Handler for the Larken Converting HiSoft Pascal to work with the Larken disk system. | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1988 | |
| Pascal Disk Handler for the LARKEN Disk Operating System | Sinc-Link | September/October 1988 | |
| Pascal for the TS2068 One of the buzz-words in the programming field these days is “structured programming”. In general, this refers to programming in... | Nite-Times News | March 1987 | |
| Pascal Hints We received the following letter from Carl Kuchte of Lewisville, NC. | QL Report | September 15, 1987 | |
| Pascal Notes Since I expect that the CATS membership may be interested in the network setup for the Pascal workshop that we... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | September 1989 |
| Pascal Programs Examples of Pascal programs. | CATS Newsletter | August 1989 | |
| Paul’s Page on Pascal | Sincus News | January - February 1989 | |
| Paul’s Page on Pascal Well, since it is almost Christmas, and the mailman has not bought many articles YET this month, I thought that... | Sincus News | November - December 1988 | |
| Paul’s Page on Pascal More about learning Pascal on a mainframe. | Sincus News | January/February 1989 | |
| Paul’s Page on Pascal Long, winding discourse about taking a Pascal course at a local college. | Sincus News | November/December 1988 | |
| Programming, Pascal and Other Comments Participation in the Pascal workshops have been good from time-to-time, but we have not been able to get the whole... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | January 1990 |
| QL Pascal What is Pascal? It is the name of a French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise, P., 1623-1662}, but it is also... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | June 1989 |
| QL Pascal Development Kit Review Review of the Metacomet Pascal Development Kit for the Sinclair QL. Package includes two tapes, a ROM cartridge, and a... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | January 1987 |
| Seven-Bit ASCII Text Filter for the TS 2068 with Larken Disk I/O Program to remove rogue ASCII characters from downloaded files that prevent them from being loaded. | Timex Sinclair User Group Newsletter: Ottawa Chapter | November 1989 | |
| Speed Comparison Between 2068 Pascal and Compiled Basic (Timachine) Comparison of floating point (sine/cosine) math between two compilers. | Update Magazine | January 1991 | |
| Speed Comparison Between 2068 Pascal and Compiled BASIC (TIMEMACHINE) Recently I have been working on using my 2068 to control a 3 axis drilling/routing machine using stepper motors. To... | Update Magazine | January 1990 | |
| Speed Comparison Between 2068, PASCAL and Compiled BASIC (TIMACHINE) I have been working on using my Timex/Sinclair 2068 to control a 3-axis drilling/routing machine using stepper motors. To make... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1998 | |
| The Pascal Page In the first Pascal demonstrations and workshops we used a compiler called “QL Pascal” from Metacomco. This system provides a... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | January 1990 |
| TS Bulletin News Supplement #3-1990 News roundup covering several topics: Harmer’s experiments with an MS-DOS word processor and dot-matrix printer for producing TS Bulletin; his... | Bill Harmer | TS Bulletin | March 1990 |
| Working With Pascal Files A reader wrote this month with a problem that is certainly not unique to programmers who are trying to learn... | Mel MacKaron | QL Report | October 15, 1987 |
| Title | Company |
|---|---|
| HiSoft Pascal Pascal compiler for the TS 2068, adapted from the version for the ZX Spectrum. | HiSoft Systems |
| Partial Pascal Subset of Pascal for the ZX81/TS 1000. Includes if, then, else, case, of, otherwise, while, do, repeat, until, for, to,... | Semper Software |
| QL Pascal ISO standard Pascal. | MetaComCo |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HiSoft Pascal Manual Operating manual for the HiSoft Pascal, covering installation, operation, and programming. | David Nutkin and David Solly | 2013 | 89 | |
| Partial Pascal manual Operating manual for the Partial Pascal, covering installation, operation, and programming. | Michael Amling | 1983, 2021 | 81 | |
| Pascal for the TS2068 One of the buzz-words in the programming field these days is, “structured programming”. In general, this refers to programming in... | Rick Connors | 198x | 2 |