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A suite of [[TSR]] utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]], initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher [[Borland]] who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and [[SDK]] for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development. | A suite of [[TSR]] utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]], initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher [[Borland]] who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and [[SDK]] for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development. | ||
== | Development of the software was later taken over by Starfish Software who released one version in two variants that ran under WinOS/2 and continued developing the software for the MS Windows platform until 1998. | ||
==Versions== | |||
* Last OS/2 version: Sidekick 2.0 | * Last OS/2 version: Sidekick 2.0 | ||
:Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher. | :Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher. | ||
* Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987 | * Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987 | ||
* Sidekick | * Sidekick for Windows 1.0, Sidekick for Windows 2.0 and Sidekick Deluxe would run under WinOS/2 and are frankly better than the native OS/2 version. | ||
* Sidekick 95, 97, 98 and 99 only run on 32 bit versions of [[MS Windows]]. | |||
==Author== | ==Author== | ||
* [[Borland]] | * [[Borland]] | ||
* Starfish Software | |||
[[Category:Utilities]][[Category:DOS Utilities]][[Category:PIM]] | [[Category:Utilities]][[Category:DOS Utilities]][[Category:MS Windows Utilities]][[Category:PIM]] | ||
Revision as of 16:28, 13 April 2015
A suite of TSR utilities that could be classified as a Personal Information Manager, initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher Borland who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and SDK for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 PM version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development.
Development of the software was later taken over by Starfish Software who released one version in two variants that ran under WinOS/2 and continued developing the software for the MS Windows platform until 1998.
Versions
- Last OS/2 version: Sidekick 2.0
- Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher.
- Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987
- Sidekick for Windows 1.0, Sidekick for Windows 2.0 and Sidekick Deluxe would run under WinOS/2 and are frankly better than the native OS/2 version.
- Sidekick 95, 97, 98 and 99 only run on 32 bit versions of MS Windows.
Author
- Borland
- Starfish Software