On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.)

I don't think Wayback has it, unless you know of a different URL to
try. Downloading from the Museum was free, but you had to have a free
login; that's how I downloaded my legit version of Borland Turbo
C/C++. So Wayback would have been unable to fetch the zip file.

For example, this 2021 copy of the "Turbo C++ 1.01" entry:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210411001355/https://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/26014

If you click the "Download 2.6MB" button, nothing happens, you just
get directed to a blank page. (When I tried it again, I got directed
back to the same page.)


[..]
>
> 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.
>

If you mean Brexx 2.1.8 at SourceForge (not GitHub) then it appears to
be. The COPYING file is the GNU GPL v2:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/brexx/


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