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Retro Dive Into Thieves Guild Source Code Hot Off A 3.5 Floppy Disk

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September 20, 2020
Near the end of the last century, when the Internet was young, BBS were everywhere, and Atari STs were hot, two developers (Paul Witte and Herb Flower) built a game called Thieves’ Guild. Thieves’ Guild was (is?) a multiplayer strategy game for BBS systems. Players could (can?) explorer a large medieval world with spell casting, combat, and thievery. With 25 different towns to explore…
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C++17 On Windows 10 With The C++ Builder

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September 19, 2020
As you know from C++ Builder 10.3, we have support for the modern C++ 17 version. Here you can see the C++ 17 supportchart. In this CodeRage session, Dion Mai shows demo applications in action. You can find out how you can use the new C++ 17 functions and an updated…
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Using a .NET Assembly via COM in Delphi

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September 8, 2020
This is mostly a reprise of an article I wrote back in 2004, but that I still refer people to. That linked version may eventually go away. I have not tested any of this recently, but will update based on feedback, and revisit as necessary. I found a recent utility that may…