exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

I know, this is a really oddball, far out there question but can software
requiring the .Net framework have a snowball's chance in Hades running
on the ST?

Specifically, 100% Pascal/open source, but requiring:

[.NET SDK 8.0+](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download)

I know it's bloody well unlikely, but I had to ask. :)

Thanks.

If it's Pascal then perhaps the .NET part is simply the compiler. If that's the case maybe the Pascal code could be extracted and ran on a Pascal compiler on Atari.

Thanks, as it turns out this release is in C something or the other but there
is an earlier Pascal release.

I posted the question over at Atari-Forum as well and got some information
there too.

Methinks it would be a fairly big job - most assuredly too much for my (very)
limited skills.

Reminds me (sadly) of my efforts with the very popular game LORD - "Legend
Of The Red Dragon". I was actually in contact with one of the developers who
offered to port it to the ST if he could get an actual ST to work on. I offered
to ship him a 1 meg 1040STFM and Megafile30 to do it (and be returned after)
but before we could finalize the deal he wound up taking another job and it
fell through.

I feel that lost opportunity to this day... :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon

LORD2 source is available in Pascal

https://github.com/rickparrish/LORD2
https://github.com/rickparrish/RMDoor
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/

I think it would be a big hill to get FreePascal onto the Atari TOS, less so for MinT, but there is an Amiga and a 68k Linux port to get started with.

alexh wrote: 16 Jan 2026 17:07 I think it would be a big hill to get FreePascal onto the Atari TOS

Not that I have any first-hand experience with it, but there is: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Atari. Recently there was a thread in atari-forum about it.

https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 42#p428542

I've played a bit with fpc.