Robin,
The link you're referring to pointed to the Paradox 8 product information page. That was taken down by Corel shortly after the release of Paradox 9.
In the meantime, Corel has, um, "demphasized" Paradox marketing. While you can still purchase the product, you can only obtain it as part of the Professional Edition of WPO Office or by picking up a copy from one of the auction sites (ebay, etc.)
Now, Paradox for Windows is *very* different from Paradox/DOS and there's quite a bot of relearning that one goes through when switching to the new version.
One the plus side, a lot of things that were difficult in the DOS product are much easier in the Windows version. Having said that, certain things that were possible in the DOS product aren't done the same way in the Windows version.
For example, the DOS product let you record macros and save them out as scripts. For many people, this was a great way to ease into programming, for the scripts would show how to do things with PAL.
ObjectPAL, on the other hand, is very different. It's closer to Visual Basic than it is to DOS PAL. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, per se. But it is different and takes some getting used to.
Now, Corel doesn't have a current link that decribes Paradox's features from the level you're looking for; however, you can find a Paradox 9 review that provides this information. It starts on
and provides a good introduction.
The differences between Paradox 9 and Paradox 11 (the latest released version) are mainly internal. Corel did add a few things over time, but their buggest success was finally working out the printing problems that appeared in the 32-bit version of Paradox.
Hope this helps...
-- Lance
P.S. If you really want to see what was posted at the broken link, you can find it at the Internet Archive (though you need to use a browser that has Javascript enabled). Go to
for the details.
