BitSavers added some more Borland documentation in 2022 (most relevant for me: Assembler, Debugger, Profiler)

Below is a list of the Borland documentation that BitSavers added in 2022, ordered by relevance to me (and how I finally asked Peter Sawatzki if he still had the monochrome TDVIDEO.DLL he wrote for Turbo Debugger 3.0 for Windows):

• [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland
  • [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland/turbo_assembler
    • [Wayback] Swan_Mastering_Turbo_Assembler_2ed_1995.pdf
    • [Wayback] Swan_Mastering_Turbo_Assembler_2ed_Floppy.zip
  • [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland/turbo_debugger
    • [Wayback] Swan_Mastering_Turbo_Debugger_1991.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_Debugger_1.0_Users_Guide_1988.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_Debugger_2.5_Users_Guide_1991.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_Debugger_3.0_for_Windows_Users_Guide_1991.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_Debugger_4.5_Users_Guide_1994.pdf
  • [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland/turbo_profiler
    • [Wayback] Turbo_Profiler_4.5_Users_Guide_1994.pdf
  • [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland/turbo_c
    • [Wayback] Jamsa_Turbo_C_Programmers_Library_1988.pdf
    • [Wayback] Kelly-Bootle_Mastering_Turbo_C_2ed_1989.pdf
    • [Wayback] Schildt_Turbo_C_C++_The_Complete_Reference_1990.pdf
    • [Wayback] Schildt_Using_Turbo_C_1988.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_C++_3.0_Users_Guide_1992.pdf
    • [Wayback] Turbo_C_User_Guide_Ver_2.0_1988.pdf
  • [Wayback] Index of /pdf/borland/borland_C++
    • [Wayback] Borland_C++_Version_4.5_DOS_Reference_1994.pdf
    • [Wayback] Borland_ObjectWindows_Version_2.5_Programmers_Guide_1994.pdf
    • [Wayback] Borland_ObjectWindows_Version_2.5_Reference_Guide_1994.pdf
    • [Wayback] Borland_ObjectWindows_Version_2.5_Tutorial_1994.pdf

Note these directories contain more files that have been uploaded before 2022 with lots of interesting scans of manuals and books. Recommended browsing/downloading!

Some were form the era I was studying and I still had the paper photo copies made available through university connections.

It means I can finally get rid of that stack of paper.

Oh: a cool thing about the Turbo Debugger 3.0 for Windows was that it could run on a monochrome monitor using a special driver written by Peter Sawatzki. It makes use of what the manual describes here:

TOW supports Super VGA video through the use of a DLL named
TDVIDEO.DLL. A number of DLLs are distributed with TOW
that support different Super VGA cards (described in the
README file on your distribution diskettes). To use one of these
DLLs with TOW, copy it to the same directory that TOW.EXE is in
and name it TDVIDEO.DLL.

I wrote about this in SEP92: A VIDEO COMPATIBILITY INTERFACE FOR TURBO DEBUGGER. The link there to the Dr. Dobb’s Journal article vanished, so I re-archived things:

• [Wayback/Archive] Danny Thorpe on Twitter: “@jpluimers @kellabyte @JohnKaster Compuserve: 76646,1035”
• [Wayback/Archive] SEP92: A VIDEO COMPATIBILITY INTERFACE FOR TURBO DEBUGGER

Back when that post got published, I was in the midst of my cancer treatments, but now I asked [Wayback/Archive] Peter Sawatzki if he still had that DLL.

–jeroen