Jump to content

Borland SideKick

From EDM2
Revision as of 16:52, 13 April 2015 by Reiknir (talk | contribs)

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 sold on its own, 1.58a was offered to OEM's at a reduced price after 2.0 came out.
  • 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

Retrieved from "https://www.edm2.com/index.php?title=Borland_SideKick&oldid=18276"