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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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DelphiRAD Studio

Setting up the IDE for your First Android App

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September 10, 2020
I’ve recently had an increase in the number of customers asking about getting started with Android programming with Delphi, so I thought it was a good time to refresh how to check your IDE is set up, how to enable developer mode on an Android phone, and how to quickly…
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Set of utilities for Delphi and C++Builder to speed up your development process

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September 2, 2020
Intro When you start building any project, you might end up creating functions to use in several points of your application. Maybe you develop a set of code snippets. Utilities are an important point of connection between your software and the device it runs on, but what if you didn’t have to create them yourself? WinSoft offers a Utils library that gives you a bunch of functions to…
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Powerful Quality Assurance Nexus Quality Suite for Delphi on Windows

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August 20, 2020
The Nexus Quality Suite (NQS) is a set of tools that enables you to fine tune your applications to the highest possible performance and quality standards. The current collection of tools include Line, Method and Block level profilers; a memory and resources leek analysis tool; a unit test coverage analyser; a static executable analysis tool; and a GUI script recorder/playback tool. NexusQA…
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The Origins Of Delphi R&D Recounted By Danny Thorpe, Original Delphi 1 Team Member

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August 20, 2020
I ran across this post over on StackExchange where Danny Thorpe, one of the original Delphi 1 team members, recounts the effort that went into the research and development behind the creation of Delphi 1. Enjoy! “Delphi 1.0 was released Feb 14, 1995. By my (now somewhat foggy) recollection, research / experimentation that directly contributed to defining the Delphi visual development…
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