There used to be a Borland Museum that had free copies of Turbo Pascal and Turbo C, but it is down now as every link I have for it doesn't work. I was hoping they'd release Delphi 2.0 or 1.0 because it is 16 bit Windows.
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The old museum site is currently offline, but if you visit the Delphi 25th anniversary site (https://delphi.embarcadero.com/) you can find in the menu at the top a link to download "Historic Delphi 1 Client/Server Install ISO"
Maybe we need to make a museum site museum.
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 can run in DOSBOX just install the Borland software in a DOSBOX machine.
Edit I got DOSEMU mixed up with DOSBOX.
Delphi 2 was the version that introduced the 32-bit compiler and ran on Windows 95. My impression is that Embarcadero (who bought and own the rights to Delphi) still have customers with legacy Delphi applications who pay them for their newer backward-compatible Delphi product, so they're unlikely to release the older versions for free. It's also a bit of a hassle to run on modern PCs. With Turbo Pascal you can just use DOSBox but you need to run Delphi on an old Windows version. If it runs in Wine, that might be the easiest option.