SE4 development tools

brettben · #1 August 24th, 2001, 01:49 AM

Does anyone know what language/tools Aaron used to develop SE4?

Atrocities · #2 August 24th, 2001, 01:52 AM

That is classified information. Sorry dude, you'll have to ask him.

Matryx · #3 August 24th, 2001, 02:04 AM

From an experience in coding similar programs I would assume one of the following:-
c++ (doubtful cos it's a pain in the ***)
delphi (easy to use but not very popular)
visual basic (I hate it but it seems to be widely used)

Will · #4 August 24th, 2001, 03:21 AM

Aaron used Delphi. Don't ask me how I remember after something like a year and a half or two years, when he made a comment about it to the SE4 ideas list when there was a small arguement about the difficulty of certain features, mainly people who thought they knew how to program (I admit I was among them at the time

).

I'm fairly sure SE1 was done in VB, an earlier Version if I remember, like 2 or 3. SE2 was VB 4 or 5 (I think

), SE3 used Delphi, SEIV used Delphi.

Oh, and just so everyone knows, VB is evil.

Baron Munchausen · #5 August 24th, 2001, 03:58 AM

Yep, SE 1 was developed in VB, and so was SE II. SE III was done in Delphi 3, I think? And SE IV was done in Delphi 4 or whatever was the latest Version when he started working on it. Too bad Delphi is not more popular. Delphi is a very nice language but like everything else not coming from the 'The Source' in Redmond cannot compete with stuff developed in house with the correct API by MS Lackeys.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 24 August 2001).]

brettben · #6 August 24th, 2001, 03:58 AM

Got a reply from Aaron to my query, SE4 was written entirely in Delphi 4.0., graphics generated with Truespace and Photoshop.