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> i ran Borland C++ Builder on it without major issues, beyond the GUI glitches i mentioned To whom does the Borland C++ builder belong. Because I wonder if th

> i ran Borland C++ Builder on it without major issues, beyond the GUI glitches i mentioned To whom does the Borland C++ builder belong. Because I wonder if there will open a market to get old c++/pascal code running in ReactOS? There is projects like lazarus and free pascal. But if you can keep your legacy win32 stuff in a self contained ReacOS vm... This will solve the enterprise problem of keeping legacy applications contained without win related licencing worries. Also your long term support looks more promising with ReactOS compared to Win XP; But microsoft will still drag the bone along for a little longer if not indefinitely at a enterprise price, ofcourse.

badsectoracula 9y ago
> To whom does the Borland C++ builder belong. Me, i bought it off ebay some time ago. Here is a blog post with some details: http://runtimeterror.com/blog/borland-c-builder.html http://runtimeterror.com/blog/borland-c-builder.html Note that i remembered wrong: BCB doesn't work out of the box, there is some issue with paths and such (i tried a few hours ago to install it in the latest version). I remember i solved it at the past, but i don't remember how i did it. > Because I wonder if there will open a market to get old c++/pascal code running in ReactOS? Well, if ReactOS is supposed to be Windows compatible it should be able to run that software without any explicit support for it since they work fine in Windows 10 (and as you say it is more likely they'll continue working on ReactOS than Windows - after all Wine can run today old 16bit software even on 64bit Linux, unlike Windows). > But if you can keep your legacy win32 stuff in a self contained ReacOS vm... Personally i prefer to run things natively because i often use those older tools for "real" work, mainly because of their speed (i write a game engine in C and Borland C++ 5.0 can compile the entire thing in less than a second). C++ Builder can also be very helpful to create a quick and dirty GUI for some C library (merging oldschool retro with bleeding edge, i modified GLEW to work with C++ Builder to create some tests for OpenGL 4.6 that was released a few days ago - being able to easily throw sliders, knobs and other widgets is neat).
rzzzt 9y ago
Embarcadero was the company which made historically significant projects, like Turbo Pascal, downloadable quite a few years ago: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/ http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/
- badsectoracula 9y ago
  Sadly, this stopped around when they changed the name back to Borland and years before they split into "Borland" and "CodeGear". I wish they would release Delphi 1 at some point, but that never happened.

badsectoracula 9y ago

> To whom does the Borland C++ builder belong. Me, i bought it off ebay some time ago. Here is a blog post with some details: http://runtimeterror.com/blog/borland-c-builder.html http://runtimeterror.com/blog/borland-c-builder.html Note that i remembered wrong: BCB doesn't work out of the box, there is some issue with paths and such (i tried a few hours ago to install it in the latest version). I remember i solved it at the past, but i don't remember how i did it. > Because I wonder if there will open a market to get old c++/pascal code running in ReactOS? Well, if ReactOS is supposed to be Windows compatible it should be able to run that software without any explicit support for it since they work fine in Windows 10 (and as you say it is more likely they'll continue working on ReactOS than Windows - after all Wine can run today old 16bit software even on 64bit Linux, unlike Windows). > But if you can keep your legacy win32 stuff in a self contained ReacOS vm... Personally i prefer to run things natively because i often use those older tools for "real" work, mainly because of their speed (i write a game engine in C and Borland C++ 5.0 can compile the entire thing in less than a second). C++ Builder can also be very helpful to create a quick and dirty GUI for some C library (merging oldschool retro with bleeding edge, i modified GLEW to work with C++ Builder to create some tests for OpenGL 4.6 that was released a few days ago - being able to easily throw sliders, knobs and other widgets is neat).

rzzzt 9y ago

Embarcadero was the company which made historically significant projects, like Turbo Pascal, downloadable quite a few years ago: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/ http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/

badsectoracula 9y ago
Sadly, this stopped around when they changed the name back to Borland and years before they split into "Borland" and "CodeGear". I wish they would release Delphi 1 at some point, but that never happened.