About the service
I have spent many years working inside the classic Borland world and still keep a ready Turbo Pascal 7 environment at hand. If you have a DOS-era program that no one has dared to touch for a long time, I will bring it back to life. My work includes reading and parsing old .PAS source files, untangling BGI graphics, working with the screen through CRT, handling interrupts and inline assembly. From there, two paths are possible: preserve the original working under DOSBox or carefully port it to Free Pascal so it builds under Windows, Linux, and macOS. I regularly rescue accounting utilities, laboratory data loggers, engineering calculators, and school educational programs written between 1990 and 2000. The result is always concrete: commented source code, a genuinely working build, a short migration report, and notes on each risky construct that I changed. I write clear educational code in Pascal for students and teachers, with comments at each step, because I am confident that old languages teach structure better than many modern ones. When modules go missing, when pointer arithmetic breaks on 32 bits, or a program is tied to real-time timing, I know these traps and explain how I worked around them. I test thoroughly where possible, verify output against the legacy binary byte-for-byte, and never deliver code I haven't run myself. I also welcome retro projects for the love of it. Tell me what the program should do, send me the surviving fragments — I will restore it.
