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Borland Delphi 7 Easter Egg

1. Put a shortcut to Delphi7 in your Start Menu called Delphi7. (So you can click Start|Programs|Delphi7)
2. Right click this shortcut, properties, set the Shortcut key to CTRL + SHIFT + 7, click OK.
3. Click Start, press escape, then hold Ctrl+Shift, press and release 7.
4. You should see a picture of the development team (I assume that’s who they are). I have found that it does not always come up, though.

Borland Delphi 7 Easter Egg Team Picture

Borland Delphi 6 Easter Egg

• In the About screen hold down Alt and type one of the following: “team”, “jedi”, or “quality”.

Borland Delphi 5 Easter Egg

1. Make a text file, either in the IDE with File | New… | Text, or using Notepad, or Windows Explorer.
2. Save the text file with a .Allen extension, as opposed to a .Txt extension.
3. Start a new project in Delphi 5 and open the project manager (View | Project Manager or Ctrl+Alt+F11).
4. Right-click on the project, choose Add… and use the Files of type: combobox to show Any file (*.*).
5. Choose the .Allen file and press Open to add it to the project.
6. At this point, right-clicking on the text file will give you a menu including the entry Meet Allen Bauer.
7. Choosing this menu item firstly displays a message box saying: Hi I’m Allen
8. Your Web Browser is then launched to display the URL http://www.on24.com/corporatevideo/borland/3-5_56.html.

This is a Web page showing a video of Allen talking about some of the new features in C++Builder 4.

If you now compile the project (Ctrl+F9), the compiler will produce some additional credits to the IDE developers.

A side effect of the compilation (assuming the project had been saved) is to also produce another empty text file with the same name, but with a .Allen.Bauer extension.

* Delphi 1 supports Windows 3.1x so programs compiled should run with no problems under operating systems that provide Windows 3.1 emulation, like OS/2 Warp, Windows 9x, NT, 2000, ME and XP and Linux with WinE.

* Delphi 2 and newer support Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP or Linux with WinE. Programs compiled with these compilers WILL NOT run under standard Windows 3.x or OS/2 Warp. Kylix is the Linux version of Delphi.

* Delphi up to version 3 has been reported to work with no problems with Linux using the WinE emulator. Programs compiled with Delphi 2+ may run under Windows 3.x with Win32s.

* Delphi 4 and newer support Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. Minimum Operating System requirements generally depend on which components and libraries you are using in your applications.

* Kylix was the Linux version of Delphi that Borland created but no longer maintains or sells.

* Because there is no Delphi version for OS/2 you may want to try out SpeedSoft’s Sybil. It is almost 100% compatible with the first versions of Borland Delphi.