MaxPascal 0.9 Released

I have released a new beta version of MaxPascal, my little IDE for Free Pascal. MaxPascal is inspired by the cute Blitz3D IDE, and my target was to provide an editor which is similar to it in features.

This version has suffered dramatic improvements since the last release, and now it supports SDL and Blitz3D SDK. If you like the Pascal language and have a license of B3DSDK, this can be a great choice for your 3D development.

And its freeware!

MaxPascal: http://www.jedive.net/maxpascal/

Nice one. Did I get it right, only available on windows?

Cool... :)
Earlier, when looking for Pascal IDE's, I found that there are very few of them..

I used to love to program Pascal (and Delphi) - it's actually a very good language, both fast and readable/userfriendly - IMO, very much on par with C and C++. It's such a shame the market is dwindling..

Yes, it's only available for Windows right now, although I might write Mac & Linux versions in the future.

I love Pascal, but also love Basic dialects. I writing my own BASIC Frontend atm, using FreePascal as the Backend. Thanks for the IDE, I will give it a ride, as Lazarus is a little to heavy, when you just want to code simple.

Btw. did you use Lazarus/SynEdit to create it?

Nice work....

Does this mean there is a B3DSDK FP header conversion?

@MikeHart: No, I used PureBasic with the Scintilla library.

@GrahamK: Thanks :)

@Ian Thompson: Yes, here is the link (I think you need to be a registered user of B3DSDK): http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=82429

Well done Jedive on the IDE. I never considered using the B3DSDK with FP, its a lovely language which is elegant and FAST... something to seriously consider.

so you used BASIC to make an IDE for free pascal, is pascal really that much better than blitzmax or purebasic?

just curious

Pascal is my personal favourite language, its very fast, easy to learn and as powerful as C++

There's no denying that there has been a downturn in the Pascal community though, personally I used to be a big Delphi fan but after being burned by a 'new' buggy IDE and the ridiculous pricing of the compiler, I bowed out in favour of C# (which was designed by the same guy that designed Delphi funny enough), which feels just like Delphi with a C twist.

Still have a soft spot for Pascal though, its such a natural programming language its a real pleasure to use, even as a hobby.

Oh, BASIC is OK but to me, at the end of the day its just basic. :P