Sibyl, a Visual Development Environment for OS/2

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2022-01-23 15:00:05

Development tools for OS/2 have always been a problem. A large variety have been available in the past, but many of them are unsupported, old fashioned, not easy to use, or based on Rexx, which despite it's attraction for some tasks is not really suitable for developing full-on applications.

It's written by a German software company called Speedsoft (http://www.speedsoft-online.de). It was built on top of their previous product, Speed Pascal, and has been released for about 2 years. In that time Speedsoft have supported it through a mail list, and have released three patches for it, fixing numerous bugs, and resulting in a stable OS/2 application.

In fact, Sibyl is a copy of Delphi, Version 2, including the user interface, language/compiler, and class libraries. If you've used Delphi before you'll find Sibyl is exactly the same, including the same strengths and weaknesses.

Sibyl comes with its own graphical installation, which quickly and painlessly copies the files onto your system and updates config.sys for you. Sibyl does not make use of Workplace Shell enhancements and generally does not cause problems with OS/2. Most people do not have problems with it, except for occasional confusion with the evaluation version. Reinstalls are not usually necessary.

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