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Virtual Pascal v2.1 Public Beta Available
September 7, 2000
A public beta of Virtual Pascal v2.1 is now available for download
from the web site - and it's Free, just like the release version will
eventually be.
To download, get these 4 files:
Each file is a self-extracting RAR archive. To extract the files, run each
downloaded file. For installation instructions, please refer to
ReadMe.htm, which is also included.
The rest of this web site, including the list of known problems etc will
be updated to reflect this shortly.
Virtual Pascal v2.1 is FreeWare
September 5, 2000
It is now for certain: Virtual Pascal will be FreeWare from v2.1 onwards.
This means that any user can download it and use it, totally free of
charge.
I will post the first public Beta version of VP v2.1 on the site in
the next few days.
VP no longer for sale
August 23, 2000
Effective mid-July, Virtual Pascal is no longer being sold through
BMT Micro. This is done in the hope that I can make the software
freeware in the very near future - please check back to this page
to follow the latest developments.
This does not mean that Virtual Pascal will not be extended or
improved. It simply means that more people will be able to use and
enjoy Virtual Pascal!
Virtual Pascal v2.1 private beta 2
August 6, 2000
The problems that were found in the first private Beta have now been
fixed, and a new limited-release private beta of Virtual Pascal v2.1
has been made available.
Real Soon Now, all registered users of Virtual Pascal will receive an e-mail
with details of the public beta as soon as it's finally available.
Summer problems
July 17, 2000
The limited pre-beta of Virtual Pascal has a number of problems in it,
which are being worked on when time permits. Unfortunately, this
being the summer season there isn't as much time for the task as
normal.
In addition, legal issues with transfering the Virtual Pascal licence
have held up the release; I am told that this will be resolved soon
and when this happens the beta will be released. Thank you for your
patience...
Virtual Pascal v2.1 pre-beta
May 5, 2000
Virtual Pascal v2.1 has been released as a limited release
pre-beta; pending feedback from this release, the real Beta will
be released soon.
All registered users of Virtual Pascal will receive an e-mail
with details of the beta and instructions for download when it
becomes available - stay tuned.
The latest on VP v2.1
April 3, 2000
Virtual Pascal v2.1 is still on its way, and has been delayed
somewhat by the fact that the online help needed updating. v2.0 did
not include online help for the TObject class, or for the entire
Classes unit - and this has now been written for inclusion in v2.1
New heap checking unit
February 27, 2000
Have you ever experiences a memory leak that was hard to track down?
Or ever written beyond the end of an allocated memory buffer? If so,
the latest addition to Virtual Pascal, HeapCheck, is for you.
The unit HeapChk.Pas tracks memory leaks, as well as under- and overruns,
and integrates into the Virtual Pascal environment. Download it
from the Examples page.
mySQL interface
1 February, 2000
A port of the interface to the mySQL database has been made available,
and can be downloaded from
Andrew William's web site.
No docs are included, but the C ones should do.
VP-related material
January 30, 2000
Veit Kannegieser, a long-time enthusiastic user of Virtual Pascal,
is maintaining a web site with material related to VP. This includes
snippets of useful source code, a DPMI-32 port of the VP v2.0 RTL,
utilities and extra help files.
The web site is available here,
in both English and German.
New home for Virtual Pascal
7 january,
2000
The new web site of Virtual Pascal is slowly taking form.
Appropriately, Virtual Pascal now is available directly at http://www.vpascal.com/.
Please
bookmark this page, and use it in preference to any previous fPrint or
Peregrine Systems pages that used to host the Virtual Pascal home
page.
Virtual Pascal v2.1 is closer
December,
1999
Following the release of v2.0, a service release of
Virtual Pascal, v2.1, is now close to release. This release, which is
obviously free of charge for all existing customers of VP v2.0, will
primarily include bugfixes and enhancement, but also a few new minor
features - most of the changes are listed on the bugs page.
An e-mail notification will be sent to all customers when the
software is made available.
Bugs page now available
24 September, 1999
A
full list of bugs, suggestions, and their status, is now available here. The bugs are
categorised for to easily find known/fixed problems in the IDE, RTL,
debugger, etc.
Virtual Pascal goes cross-platform
23 August,
1999
With the release of Virtual Pascal v2.0, the full feature set of Virtual
Pascal is available here.
Keeping up to date with the news
1 August,
1999
There are now several ways of being up to date on
Virtual Pascal, through the
Virtual Pascal Information
Sources page VP For Linux
August, 1999
A project aiming to
port Virtual Pascal to Linux is under way, headed by VP user
Joerg Pleumann. More information is available on the VP for Linux homepageReviews
4 September, 1999
Virtual Pascal has
been reviewed several times, and some of the reviews are available in
English translations or transcriptions from the VP Reviews page.
Example code
A small library of code and examples
written by Virtual Pascal users is available for download, from the examples, libraries and
add-ons page. Many of the examples include full source code.
VP Tips, Tricks and Techniques
A collection of
tricks that allows you to get more out of your Virtual Pascal
installation is available on the VP Tips Page.
The story of VP
Want to know the story behind
Virtual Pascal? Click here: The history of Virtual
Pascal.
VP in Real Life
Virtual Pascal is being used -
read about other users' experiences with VP on the real life page.
Related links
A collection of links to Pascal- or development-related sites is
maintained
here.
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