Jim Guthrie
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- Location
- Yate, S. Gloucestershire
Martin,
I got a new PC at the start of the year and it dawned on me a few days ago that I hadn't got an IDE and compiler of any type installed on it. So I thought about re-installing the free edition of Delphi I installed on my older PC a year or two ago. I still had the install exe on the older machine but on trying to install it on the new machine, it wouldn't install, with an out-of-date warning. So I went hunting to see if there was an up-to-date free version of Delphi and found this :-
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-download/
This will also generate application files for the Mac OS and Linux, so maybe the possibility of writing a Mac version.
There are a few limitations, which you would expect, and it seems to have a time limit of about 370 days. What happens after 370 days, I'm not sure - I haven't read all the small print . It might be that it can be re-registered for another year like other free hobbyist versions.
I actually didn't install it - it would only install on my C drive and I had three goes at installing it to see if I was missing an option to select a different drive, but I didn't find any. So I actually went back to my Delphi 7 disks and had a go with that, but it was pushing things a bit far to get it installed on Win10. So I opted to install the 2010 version which I had purchased about twelve years ago. I'm still on the Embarcadero (Borland) Developer Network, so have got access to an ISO file and the installation code.
Jim.
I got a new PC at the start of the year and it dawned on me a few days ago that I hadn't got an IDE and compiler of any type installed on it. So I thought about re-installing the free edition of Delphi I installed on my older PC a year or two ago. I still had the install exe on the older machine but on trying to install it on the new machine, it wouldn't install, with an out-of-date warning. So I went hunting to see if there was an up-to-date free version of Delphi and found this :-
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-download/
This will also generate application files for the Mac OS and Linux, so maybe the possibility of writing a Mac version.
There are a few limitations, which you would expect, and it seems to have a time limit of about 370 days. What happens after 370 days, I'm not sure - I haven't read all the small print . It might be that it can be re-registered for another year like other free hobbyist versions.
I actually didn't install it - it would only install on my C drive and I had three goes at installing it to see if I was missing an option to select a different drive, but I didn't find any. So I actually went back to my Delphi 7 disks and had a go with that, but it was pushing things a bit far to get it installed on Win10. So I opted to install the 2010 version which I had purchased about twelve years ago. I'm still on the Embarcadero (Borland) Developer Network, so have got access to an ISO file and the installation code.
Jim.
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