64 bit SEV?

Aiken · #1 June 19th, 2005, 08:23 AM

There's no Delphi 64-bit compiler yet, afaik.

boran_blok · #2 June 19th, 2005, 10:06 AM

SEV is written in delphi ?

Atrocities · #3 June 19th, 2005, 06:16 PM

NO COMMENT!

Baron Munchausen · #4 June 19th, 2005, 09:01 PM

SE 3 & 4 were written in Delphi. I'm not sure about SE V. MM has been aware that most of the fancy graphics libraries available are in C++ so I think he's been at least planning to move to a C++ development environment. (Probably MS 'Studio' although I think Borland still produces a C compiler of some sort?)

Hmm, searching the SE 5 beta executable for copyright strings I found Borland and some occurences of Delphi nearby. Guess he's still using some version of Delphi. You'd have to ask him exactly what version it is.

Aiken · #5 June 19th, 2005, 09:45 PM

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Baron Munchausen said:
SE 3 & 4 were written in Delphi. I'm not sure about SE V. MM has been aware that most of the fancy graphics libraries available are in C++ so I think he's been at least planning to move to a C++ development environment. (Probably MS 'Studio' although I think Borland still produces a C compiler of some sort?)

I guess many pieces of se4's code were reused in se5. Not to mention SF 3d engine, which is written in Delphi.

Borland produces CPP Builder. Not too popular today.

GreyCloud · #6 June 21st, 2005, 05:26 AM

SE is written Delphi ? nice

Delphi is a great language, like Pascal but Object Orientated, its not great for graphics, but it handles everything else excellently, especially databases (how many of them are there in SE !)

Gandalf Parker · #7 June 21st, 2005, 11:40 AM

You would be surprised how many games, or programs in general, are not written in C++. Libraries do tend to be but any progamming language can call libraries. Thats why I rankle when someone asks what to learn and gets C++ shot at them right away. Sure if you are planning to try for a job where a large team of programmers is locked away in cubicles working on one program then C++ is a good default answer.

Hmmmm there could be a Tshirt in there.
"LEARN C++ (if you want to work in a cubicle)"
Hey no flaming, Im only half serious.

Baron Munchausen · #8 June 21st, 2005, 05:35 PM

Actually, 'hard core' programing jobs in general are drying up. Apparently they've all been sent to India...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

So the stuff to learn now is 'Visual Basic' and 'MS Access' (the Office database language) so you can hack for your office manager...

I was a reasonably good Turbo Pascal programmer once... before 'Delphi' even existed. I suppose I'd have to learn all over again, by now. Never was much good at C or x86 assembler.