Borland Delphi 1

Borland Delphi is a complete application development system, and winner of the coveted PC Plus Gold Award. Using Delphi you can create your own completely stand-alone Windows applications, from the simplest utility to complex relational database programs. As Delphi is a true compiler, these applications are small and fast!

You can also now take advantage of the excellent upgrade offers.

Be sure to check out the Delphi tutorials also on the other SuperCD: Delphi in 10 Minutes, Programming for Beginners and Delphi Workshop.

NOTE: If you install on a Windows 3.1 machine, you will be informed if you don't have Share.exe turned on in your autoexec.bat. You should make sure that it is.

Here are some comments from the PC Plus review of Delphi 1:

"Although it undoubtedly owes a debt to Microsoft's Visual Basic, Delphi is a lot more than simply a copy-cat Visual Pascal. Its blend of visual programming techniques with a fully object-orientated programming language is both powerful and elegant. Frankly, it is so far ahead of Visual Basic 3.0 that it is hard to think of any justification, other than habit, for continuing to use the Microsoft product."

"Delphi has numerous advantages over VB. Of these, probably the single most significant is its compilation to native machine code. This not only greatly increases the speed of program execution but also allows developers to generate DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) or VBXs (Visual Basic Controls). Delphi also scores over VB by enabling programmers to develop new Delphi visual components without having to make the traumatic switch to a C++ compiler."

"Delphi's database programming controls and, in the client/server version, dedicated support for server databases, also makes it a strong challenger to PowerBuilder."

"Microsoft will no doubt hope to out-Delphi Delphi with the forthcoming release of Visual Basic 4. But for the time being at least, Borland has, quite simply, the best visual development product available."

Product details

Contact: INPRISE, Inc (note: these contact details for new product information only - no support available for this version)

Tel: 0118 932 0022

Fax: 0118 932 0017

Price: As sold for รบ349

Serial Number: n/a

Limitations: None in software, but check license agreements.

Uninstall: No

System requirements: Windows 3.1; Windows 95; 6Mb RAM. 77 Mb used on hard disk after complete install.

WWW: http://www.inprise.com/delphi/delprev

E-Mail: sales@inprise.com