[OldSchoolJohnny]

Yeah I just started dabbling with it and I have an ultra fast windows 10 laptop with solid state drive and I'm amazed at how long it takes to go from changing a line of code to running it in the emulator.

I was originally planning to do dev work for android in a virtual machine like everything else I work on but I doubt it would be anywhere near performant enough.

[agumonkey]

If you wanna feel something rare, find a win98 box on a pentium 2/3 and run turbo pascal IDE. Enjoy the paradoxical bliss.

ps: TURBO.EXE amounts to a whopping 600KB.

[kabdib]

LightSpeed C: modify-to-run in a couple of seconds (often).

I worked on an assembler/editor that had a change-to-run system on the order of a couple of seconds, too.

Something changes when you have near instant turnaround time. It's magic.

Some of the most miserable time I've spent has on projects with tooling where builds took hours, and often hours just to fail. I was even okay with 30 minute turnaround time, as long as it was clear that the bottleneck wasn't fucking lame tools: The need to burn a bunch of EPROMs for each build, for instance . . . though I fixed that as soon as I could.

[ansgri]

Or if you're into something more modern, Delphi 7 will do. And it'll probably run on modern Windows.

[agumonkey]

I can't decide which I prefer, the charm of text mode(TP7.0 was really pretty and nice) or the look'n'feel of early windows GUIs (Windows 3 / OS2 warp beveled boxes and pale hues are so nice).

[pjmlp]

MS-DOS 3.3, Turbo Pascal 6.0 and TASM, all in a 1.44 floppy! :)

[agumonkey]

I have a weird fetish of making everything fit on a floppy. Acute Kaytosis I guess. If I had functionning floppies I'd prep a DOS3 one like yours :)