TopSpeed C++

A C++ development system for 16 bit OS/2, Windows and DOS code, can be run natively or by cross compiling from DOS, can also be used to develop for the PSION series 3 if used in conjunction with the PSION s3 SDK. System now owned by Soft Velocity who use it as a utility development system for their Clarion database product and an OS/2 compatible product is no longer being offered. Originally a development of the TopSpeed Modula-2 package and shares the same environment and back-end.

The TopSpeed C++ compiler came out considerably later than the Pascal, Modula-2 and C compilers from the same company and was never considered as good as they were, but the later versions are a distinct improvement in particular the 3.10v, although by now completely outdated and only really usable for DOS development in general and in the case of OS/2 for text mode development.

Version

 * 1992: 3.02
 * Last known version: 3.10

Prerequisites

 * For Windows 3.x or Win-OS/2 programming the TopSpeed TechKit is required, but the tools from it integrate into the TopSpeed environment.
 * Although you can develop OS/2 Presentation Manager applications without the OS/2 SDK, it is highly recommended that you use it since the PM support of TopSpeed C++ is rather weak in the parts were tools from the SDK already existed.
 * DOS 3.0 or later and/or OS/2 1.3 or later.

License

 * Commercial - Discontinued

Author

 * Jensen and Partners International
 * Niels Jensen

Publications

 * Articles
 * A review of TopSpeed C/C++ v3.02 - PC Magazine (Jul 1992)
 * A review of TopSpeed C++ 3.1 - PC Magazine (1994)

Links

 * Various fixes and workarounds for the 3.10 version of the compiler