Until now I always used VNC remote desktop to record MorphOS Videos of my FreePascal programs. I already bought before a standalone capture device but it did not work, even I set the screen mode to 720p or 1080p the capture device do not recognize the signal and therefore does not record anything.
Now I got an „Elgato Game Capture HD“ with this it seems to work when you set the screen mode in MorphOS to „1280×720 (50 Hz, 37.5kHz) 720p“ the 60 Hz seems not to work.
I packed Sodoku as an ADF, not bootable becasue it needs intuition.library, so you have to load Workbench first. It needs around a 1.5 Mb RAM. Sadly I still not get the newer FPC Version to work (strange crashes, looks like some memory corruption, because it always crash at different positions) so the executable is still rather huge (550 kb vs 52 kb) and therefor needs a lot of memory to load it.
Download: Sodoku WB1.3 ADF
I dig out my old Version of FreePascal for Workbench 1.3 and I tried to use it with the latest FreePascal, and it seems not to work. Thats bad because the smaller exe size was after that, so the executables are still quiet big.
So I should check again how to do that.
But first I played a little bit with it and wrote a little Game for the Workbench. A Sodoku which worked quiet nice, just the graphics is rather difficult because many of the convenience feature to create Bitmaps and rastports and so on are not there so you have to do it by hand.
But finally it works:
MAybe you do not know it but FreePascal turned today 25. On 8th June 1993 Florian Klaempfl started with current FPC source base.
I will take this opportunity to say thanks for that. It’s an awesome program and becomes better and better Also thanks to ChainQ which gave me the the chance to use my favorite language on my favorite computer system.
Happy Birthday FPC 😀