[Lazarus] DelphiForFun

[Michael Van Canneyt]

I dropped him a note.

We'll see where we get.

Michael.


On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, ron schultz wrote:

> There is a web site DelphiForFun <http://www.delphiforfun.com> by Gary Darby
> that has a large number of programs and examples of solutions using Delphi.
> Gary is a programmer who has 40 plus years of experience. He was recently
> nominated for the Spirit of Delphi award. His Pascal experience started with
> Turbo Pascal up through current versions of Delphi. You can read his
> biography from the link About Me at the bottom of the home page.
>
> He is starting to use FPC/Lazarus and has nice things to say about it. He is
> having some problems getting FPC/Lazarus to work. He is looking for help.
> See Home Page the Oct 4, 2009 entry. Gary can be contacted by the Feedback
> link at the bottom of the home page.
>
> All of the programs have a nice verbal description of the problem to solve
> and the solution. For each program the source code or the executable can be
> downloaded. They are written in a professional quality. The programs vary
> from fairly basic to solving problems that I don’t even understand the
> question let alone the solution.
>
> If this collection of programs could be made to run with FPC/Lazarus I think
> it would be a huge plus, especially if they would work with both Windows and
> Linux.
>
> Below is a count of the collection of programs.
>
> Puzzles & Projects
> Beginners     Intermediate   Advanced
>    49                     89                73
>
> Delphi Techniques
>   66
>
> Math Topics
>  70
>
> Utilities
>  10
>
> A couple of times I’ve used sections of Gary’s programs when I saw that they
> provided the solution to a problem I had. Helping getting this collection of
> programs working in FPC/Lazarus is beyond my skill level.
>
> ron
>