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I’m tempted to install Win95/98 on it, run Borland Delphi 4 from 1998 on it, and develop a UI in fraction of the time and resources it takes on the Web.

The result will probably still run on modern Windows, too

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That does not actually need DOSBox, it runs great with WINE: https://i.imgur.com/YgOw2Zc.png

Sorry for breaking HN conventions, but:

Oh My God

I'm tempted to install Turbo Pascal for a deep nostalgia trip. I grew up in a small-ish town in Appalachia, and when I ran out of math classes to take in high school I started learning to program. They had put together a little "computer lab" circa 1990 when cash was a little easier to come by for a public school, and hadn't updated them since.

It was 2004, and their intro programming course was still taught in Pascal. We hacked on a version of Turbo Pascal that might have dated to when the Soviet Union still existed, and I remember that cheery blue terminal interface fondly. It left me with an irrational life-long love of text-based interfaces.

It would be better to use NT4 or Windows 2000. Delphi had a habit of crashing hard under 9x whilst debugging and taking the OS with it. I used Delphi from 1 - 5 commercially and we never used 9x because the experience was a lot less usable. I did use maybe, Delphi 3 under Windows 98 at home, but it would never have been for anything important.

Thanks for the hint!

Lazarus is the modern alternative for Pascal coders

But I do not think it will run on Windows 98

It needs the Unicode APIs

That has crossed my mind actually, bring me back to my youth. Just seeing the screenshot of win98 on pcem gave me strong nostalgia.

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