Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I looked at the Borland Paradox question, I started by trying to > find Paradox in the Embarcadero museum archive. > > Once upon a time, Borland had a 'museum' that included old DOS > development tools like Borland Turbo C/C++ and Borland Turbo Pascal. > When Borland spun off the dev tools into "CodeGear" and Embarcadero > purchased them, Embarcadero continued the 'museum' archive. It was > slow, but we linked to several Borland tools from > https://www.freedos.org/about/devel/ > ..such as https://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/26014 for Borland Turbo C/C++ 1.01. > > I noticed that these links are dead now. I don't know how long they > have been offline. I know I created my Embarcadero account in January > 2024 (downloads from the museum were free but you had to have an > account) and I think I last logged in during summer 2024. > > Does anyone know if there's a better/working link to the museum, or is > this truly offline now? > > (It will be a pity if that bit of history is gone, at least from the > 'official' website.)
The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) is probably our only hope. IIRC, while they (foolishly) said "reproduction is prohibited", I think the (very very old original) Borland Museum was indeed backed up, but I don't have any URLs offhand to quote you. (I think I emailed the link to Eric Auer once. I'd have to double-check.) In direct response re: Paradox, while I've never used it, there was some Paradox support in Brexx 1.3 (16-bit but 386 code) DOS .EXE. No idea if that works (for database stuff) standalone or not, but just FYI. * http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/stmsdos9709/disk2/DISC2/PGMUTL/BREXX13.ZIP DOS/rx.exe 125,693 Dos executable with Paradox engine rxpx.txt 6,320 Paradox engine.reference date.db 4,082 PX engine data base pxview.r 2,643 Paradox View So this was (IIRC, paraphrased) "free for non-commercial use" and needed a 386. In reference to TCPP101.ZIP, I did make a patch that would recompile this (and another for later Brexx 2.1.0) as pure 8086 code (without Paradox, which I don't have). On the bright side, omitting that saves crucial low memory. (2.1.0 runs a lot faster, though, and is slightly better.) For license purists, I have not checked if the Brexx 2.1.8 sources on Github are really "GPL" or not nowadays. I also haven't emailed him in recent years. Honestly, I'm pessimistic. But it does function reasonably well, at least, for my simple REXX programs. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
