Virtual Pascal was developed by Vitaly Miryanov and later maintained by Allan Mertner.
VP was mainly used for these purposes: Significant features of Virtual Pascal include: The compiler was quite popular in the Bulletin board system (BBS) scene, probably because of its OS/2 port and being one of the few affordable multi-target compilers.
Also Turbo Pascal had been popular in the BBS scene too, but its successor, Delphi was suddenly for Windows only.
Virtual Pascal provided a migration path for existing codebases.
This has not been done, for these reasons: Although it had a wide user base in the late 1990s, VP has not evolved significantly since 2001, and after a few maintenance-only releases, the owner declared that development had ceased in 2005.