What is Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN”? In a nutshell, Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN” is a complete suite for developing games and demos for older computer systems. TRSE is created with Qt (C++), and runs as a stand-alone application that contains various tools for developing and deploying projects for these processors. The TRSE suite includes the following stuff: A fully functional Pascal parser/compiler/assembler that compiles to various target platform assembler (in text format)

A built-in assembler for the 6502

A substantial amount of handy built-in assembler functions optimized for easy-to-use and fast operations (typically memory operations, zero paging, copying, sprite handling, IRQs, clearing screen, drawing to screen, input handling, maths, sprite handling)

Help text for each built-in method, constant.

Lots and lots of tutorials – compile and run more than 250 example files from more than 30 tutorial/sample projects.

Turbo Rascal language tutorial series (under the C64 tutorial section)

Built-in ray tracer that can create advanced ray-traced scenes / movies. The ray-tracer contains several methods for exporting compressed data that the C64/VIC20/Amiga etc can decode. Made for creating demo effects.

Lots of demo effect example files & projects

Full demos and games sample projects included

Compile-time and post optimizer

Advanced image / sprite / level / character / font / tile editor.

Document-style editor for images and source files with syntax highlighting and code completion.

Character-based movie editor that exports to compressed image formats

Disk support using Krill’s loader. Automatic creation of .d64 disks with files.

Cycle counter per line, displayed in the editor

Memory usage analyzer tool (creates an image of the memory map of the current project)

Automated decruncher for compressed data (images, levels, sound etc)

Disk/crt support But.. why? The author had a C64 as a kid, but never got the hang of understanding proper programming until the x86 era of the 90s. This is his way of mending the hole in is soul. In addition, he hopes that he’ll get filthy rich & famous off this project. Pricing Free of charge. How the “rich” part will be achieved is still up for debate.