if you need Borland Delphi v7  - Page 1
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author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 11:37:05 pm
content: Borland has released aPersonalversionand if your goal is not commercial you can download and use it.Thank you BorlandI have found the url and updated my Borland Delphi v2 (both a lot of years ago)in order to recompile my old projects stuffenjoy

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 11:54:36 pm
content: I cant see any links to Delphi. The article does state that the link is no longer working. I cant find anything on the offical site regarding a Personal version.Do you have a direct link to the Personal Version on the Delphi site?Regards

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:43:17 am
content: keep scrolling down, theres a link to the zip file on mediafire.tried it, seemed to work, downloaded a "delphi7 personal.zip" did not look in it or try it.

author: tinhead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:48:29 am
content: right, there was once official message on Embarcadero Developer Network:"Delphi 7 Personal is not available for download. If your received the software on a disk bundled with a book or magazine, you can use the following serial number and key to register"In Germany it was e.g. on c't Magazine from 08/2004 or an Book "Delphi for Kids" (ISBN-10: 3826686624).

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:51:11 am
content: I don't know why anyone would care. 32bit only, old, for personal use only so no commercial stuff.You can use Free Pascal (and Lazarus) for that if you really want Delphi like programming. Open source, you can do commercial stuff, it does 32bit , 64 bit etc etc

author: retrolefty
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 01:16:24 am
content: Brings back memories of Turbo Pascal running on a Z-80 CP/M Kaypro computer in the 80s. It was my first experiance with a compiler and structured programming. Never wrote with Basic again.

author: spudboy488
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 11:32:41 am
content: Bloodshed Pascal athttp://www.bloodshed.net/devpascal.htmlI've used their Bloodshed C before. It's pretty good.

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 11:51:54 am
content: Yeah, the first link is down, but you can download it fromherefrom that link i have downloaded and installed Delphi v7, pretty runningwhy i did that ? well, in my case i got Delphi v7 because i need Delphi >v5 in order to recompilejbug11(1)(the original version was written for Delphi v4, but its author has improved it)(1) JBug11 is a monitor and debugger for developing assembly language programs on the Motorola 68HC11 series of micro-controllers (MCU). It is designed to be used on a personal computer running one of the Microsoft Win32 operating systems, and to communicate with the micro-controller under test by means of an RS232 serial link from one of the PC’s serial communications ports. As with Motorola’s own PCbug11, this program uses a Talker - a small program which remains resident on the micro-controller and which provides basic communication with the PC. Its development was inspired by the difficulty of running PCbug11 on modern fast processors; and at the same time provide some of the features expected in a modern GUI environment, and one or two additional de-bugging tools.

author: ecat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 11:59:48 am
content: Quote from: spudboy488 on May 28, 2014, 11:32:41 amInteresting. The IDE for both their Dev-Pascal and Dev-C++ appear to be written using Delphi, full source is available for download

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:32:31 pm
content: Quote from: ecat on May 28, 2014, 11:59:48 amnot exactlyhttp://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devpas19src.zipPage Not FoundThe page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following:If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.Click the Back button in your browser to try another link.Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the Internet.

author: ecat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 12:54:06 pm
content: Tryhttp://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devpas191src.zipworks for me.http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpptakes you to sourceforge, I did not investigate further.There is a veritable host of Delphi components available out there, many with source and many for earlier versions of Delphi which can be be recompiled.

author: igendel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 01:08:39 pm
content: If anyone wants my horrid Delphi 2005, I'll be happy to get rid of it (I'll also send some nails to sit on while you're working, to make the experience complete). There was a nice free version of 2006 ("Turbo Explorer"? I forgot how it was called). Now I work alternately with XE2 and FPC/Lazarus.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 02:35:02 pm
content: I still keep my Turbo Assembler books around as well as the installer. Asf for turbo pascal .. That got shredded long ago.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 06:50:04 pm
content: Quote from: legacy on May 27, 2014, 11:37:05 pmask them to offer me the most expensive enterprise edition. no thanks! i have dormant TC from the age of DOS still in my HDD, but not any variant of delphi regardless of brand. thanks to Microsoft for VS2008Express, even that is if someone force me to thanks to somebody.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 28, 2014, 07:02:56 pm
content: Quote from: ecat on May 28, 2014, 11:59:48 amI have used Dev-C++ before Eclipse got popular but Dev-C++ has always been buggy. A problem most Delphi software suffers from. Pascal is a great language to learn structured programming but is really unsuitable for big projects. With Pascal you have to carefully plan how you are going to structure your program BEFORE you start coding or you'll run into trouble and end up with an unfixable piece of software. Delphi looks simple but you need much better programmers to come up with a properly working piece of software writing with Delphi/Pascal than with C++.Another problem with Delphi is that is has 4 or 6 different string types which you need to convert between all the time. Last but not least Borland bolted on all kinds of extra features to make programming 'easier' including a lot of C-style functions, strings, defines, etc to end up with some kind of Frankenstein-Pascal

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 01:55:00 am
content: Let's put it this way: if you learn how to swim you use floaties or water wings. However if you know how to swim and want to win a swimming contest the floaties would be in the way.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 11:10:23 am
content: QuoteOr Turbo Pascal? 1.x or 2.x. Loved those little things. Still fire them up from time to time to just admire their simplicity.Revolutionary stuff.

author: igendel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 11:20:42 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 28, 2014, 07:02:56 pmUnlike what other languages, exactly?

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 29, 2014, 11:54:03 pm
content: C++ for example is a lot more forgiving by allowing forward declarations.

author: retrolefty
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 12:19:13 am
content: Quote from: igendel on May 29, 2014, 11:20:42 pmLike the original Basic I was using before Turbo Pascal. GOTO is fun at first but well I'm sure you know.

author: igendel
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 30, 2014, 10:01:49 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on May 29, 2014, 11:54:03 pmForward declarations, as in the "Forward" keyword in Pascal?This is hardly related to the forum topic (unless one uses MikroPascal), but IMO, in every programming language you can improvise a passable code up to a certain complexity - and then, if you didn't plan things properly in advance, it'll be a mess.