Borland SideKick: Difference between revisions

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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.

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 1.0 introduced in 1994 - Version 1.56 the last 1.x release.
Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987 - Bugfix release 1.0a released in 1988.
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

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 * Last OS/2 version: Sidekick 2.0
 :Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher.
-* Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987
+* Sidekick 1.0 introduced in 1994 - Version 1.56 the last 1.x release.
+* Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987 - Bugfix release 1.0a released in 1988.
 * 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]].