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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    Hi there!
    I just released my XCESS Game Development Kit which is mostly a set of DirectX wrapper classes for Delphi 5 and higher, but it also contains three tools including a bitmap font editor, a graphical user interface editor and a package editor. Using the package editor you can store a virtually unlimited number of files of any format in a single package file.
    XCESS also contains a thread driven timer component, a sprite engine, a system info component, a component that uses the Windows GDI for relatively fast graphics and a sound component that works without DirectX.
    The XCESS Game Development Kit comes with 28 sample programs, a 370 page help file and three additional help files, one for each tool.
    Oh, and of course its open source and free for both non-commercial and commercial use.
    You can download the pre-release version at http://www.xsdevkit.com
    Ask me about the xcess game development kit

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    Very nice work! The interface editor seems quite lovely judging by the screenshots. I've have a nosey around the source code some time!

    A quick suggestion: you could probably get the thing running under Delphi 4 if you remove "variants" from the uses clause where listed and deselect "text dfm" for every form (right-click). Shouldn't be too much of a stretch after that (though that depends on what classes you're using, of course...).
    "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
    <br />-- Aristotle

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    Thanks!
    I don't currently have Delphi 4 installed so I couldn't test it, but I will see if I can make the next release Delphi 4 compatible.

    Delphi 4 supports overloaded methods and dynamic arrays, right? Because if it does, there is no reason why XCESS shouldn't compile under Delphi 4.
    Ask me about the xcess game development kit

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    Very impressive. I've posted a news item on turbo about it.

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    thanks a lot! much appreciated!
    Ask me about the xcess game development kit

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    This looks very promising, but I cannot find the DDUtil.pas that is needed in the DxDirectDraw.pas? Anybody got that file? I have tried with some of the ones I can find on the net, but with no luck.

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    iLLUNis
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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    Quote Originally Posted by Kim Friis
    This looks very promising, but I cannot find the DDUtil.pas that is needed in the DxDirectDraw.pas? Anybody got that file? I have tried with some of the ones I can find on the net, but with no luck.
    Did you try the one on Harry Hunt's website?... :?

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    XCESS Game Development Kit

    :lol: Darn I'm blind.... I think I need to go see the doctor.

    Well I actually also found one that worked on an russian site, but now I will be using this one.

    It looks very good. I have some surgestions for it that might find it's way on the forum for the product.

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