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Someone is trying to learn C in advance of his course which starts in the new year.
Good idea, possibly.
So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4...and it's not working quite as he expects...
That's what? 20 years old? 
I'm amazed it runs on a modern OS! 
That has to be a record: unless you know someone who found a copy of QuickC for DOS and got it to install under Win7?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, at least he tried... And in case you're planning to help him: awww yisss, history goodness![^] 
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I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
I can't believe MS have given it away, but if they have...gawd but I'm tempted!
Got any 5.25" floppies? And a floppy drive?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Virtual Floppy Drive...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just Googled QuickC for DOS - I used to love that program - and found it on an abandonware site!
... Aaaaaand, it Does work in DosBox!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Damn it!
Now I've spent the whole morning trying to get it working!
It works, but for some reasons DosBox insists that the BIN folder is the C:\ root drive, so it can't find the "Includes" folder...grrrr....back to the fight...I'll beat this, I will...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes!
It works!
"Hello World", The QuickC version lives!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So...he has downloaded a copy of TurboC 4
From the Smithsonian?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I had to install a copy of VC 6 (or something like that) a couple years ago. On a then modern machine, the compiler was so screaming fast it seemed to compile the C++ code before I even it the build button.
I think we've lost something, tools that now require horsepower, disk space and memory that would cripple a system 10+ years ago.
Marc
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We have lost a lot in "raw power" - but by heck we have gained a lot in development support! Intellisense alone is worth a huge amount of compiler slowdown, and then there is "on the fly" compilation allowing us to change code while debugging.
I am happy losing compilation speed to gain those two things alone!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Isn't that a 16-bit program? How could he get it to run on a modern OS?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I loved QuickC for DOS. I used it as my source editor for a long time, even though I was using Watcom C/386 and Microsoft C 7.0 for my tool chain. It was quick (pardon the pun), loading in under a second. It supported editing two files at once (unbelievable convenience), and I could even program the hot keys to whatever I liked.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You want to try it in DosBox on a modern PC! Good grief but it's quick!
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Sadly, Turbo C++ was what was used for C++ in the college I graduated from in 2004. I got in touch with a younger student there several years later (at least 3 or 4 years back from present) and they were still using that.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Given that Visual studio has (very cheap) student editions and (free) Express editions, that says a heck of a lot about the college and the likely quality of it's tutors... 
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I would bet real money they're still using TC++. I'll be visiting my hometown in a week... might just pop over and find out for myself 
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the other colleges were using it too 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Scare 'em. Take a lappie with VS Express loaded and show teh students what they will really be working with...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But, but, but, VS doesn't have TurboVision!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Sadly in my country (in two of our "top" technical universities), Turbo C++ is still used. You just need to spend some time install BorlandC compiler and you are the man/woman. Web design is recommended to be used with tables and we can really impress the folks at AutoDesk, showing them how to run AutoCAD 2006 and SolidWorks 2008 simultaneously on a P3 machine with XP and 512 RAM in the best case scenario 
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Which country is this? Surely you can't be from the US like it says in your profile?
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Greetings from Bulgaria. Although our IT and Engineer students indeed are knowledgeable and remarkable, our education system is a nightmare.
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I totally know what you mean by the last sentence - it's the same here. If there are good students, it's despite the education system, not because of it.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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It's simply a standstill. No professor, lecturer or anybody actually cares. Just take his salary, speak for an hour and good to go (oh let's not forget the extra payment from students to let them pass)... It's good thing we have private academies that actually teaches you (and some does it for free compared to the universities).
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OriginalGriff wrote: install under Win7
Install? Turbo BASIC is just install-by-copy -- and works under Win 7 32-bit. It doesn't work under 64-bit Win 7 or 8.
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it really is xmas now!
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