Welcome to my Delphi® Pages

These pages were last updated on November 6, 2005. A new page has been added containing information on my new Wild Card Poker Suite. I hope you find the contents of these pages useful.

Table of Contents

1. Recent Changes - Lists updates and other changes to these pages. (Last Updated October 30, 2005)
2. Site Information - Lists what you will find on each of my web pages. (Last Updated October 30, 2005)

Recent Changes

• (November 6, 2005) - Delphi Wild Card Poker Suite - I have discovered a bug in one of the test projects for the poker suite. The file ht5Main.pas contains an error in one of the string constants. It erroneously reports that the expected number of Flushes in the 1 Joker Wild test should be 7840. The library correctly reports the number at 7804. I have uploaded a corrected version to the web site.
• (October 30, 2005) - Delphi Standard Poker Suite - New features have been added to the Standard Poker Suite. They are described on the Standard Poker Suite page.
• (October 30, 2005) - Delphi Wild Card Poker Suite - A new page has been added containing information on my new Wild Card Poker Suite.
• (October 30, 2005) The Downloads Page - Has been updated to include the new Wild Card Poker Suite for Delphi and new versions of the Standard Poker Suite for Delphi.
• (October 30, 2005) - Delphi Books Page - New books have been added to the Delphi Books page.
• (April 2, 2005) - Standard Poker Library Downloads - It appears that some of the Standard Library Package zip files contained version 1.0 or the Standard Library instead of 2.0. This has now been corrected.
• (March 31, 2005) - Delphi Standard Poker Suite - A new page has been added containing information on my new Standard Poker Suite.
• (March 31, 2005) The Downloads Page - Has been updated to include the new Standard Poker Suite for Delphi.
• (January 14, 2005) - Standard Poker Library for Windows - Version 2.0 of the Standard Poker Library for Windows (32-bit) has passed preliminary testing and is now available for download. The new version of the library contains additional optimizations and is ten to forty percent faster than version 1.01. This version works with Delphi 2.0 through Delphi 7.0 and Delphi 2005 for Windows. Version 1.0.1 is still available for Delphi 1 users. I will work on speeding up that version as time permits.
• (January 14, 2005) The Downloads Page - Has been updated to include the new version of the Standard Poker Library for Windows.
• (January 14, 2005) - New Web Page - I have added a Delphi Books page to this site. The section on books for beginners is completed. The rest of the page is still under construction.

Site Information

1. Contacting Me - If you experience any problems with these pages or have questions about the software, you may contact me at charlesappel@mindspring.com Please note that like most people, I receive a great deal of spam, so use "Delphi Poker Libraries", "Your Delphi Web Site", or another meaningful phrase in the subject line of your email.
2. Chuck's Toys - This page describes the Bit Twiddling Toy, the Color Toy for HTML users, the ASCII Toy, and the Number Toy. This page contains screen shots and may take a while to load.
3. Chuck's Video Poker - This page contains information on the Jacks or Better Video Poker Game (written in Delphi). Plans for other variants are currently on hold.
4. Delphi Articles - This page contains links to three articles on programming in Delphi. Other articles will be added later.
5. Delphi Books - This page contains a list of books and web site tutorials that I hope will be of interest to Delphi and Pascal programmers.
6. Downloads - This page contains links to the files you may download from my site. These include:
   • The Wild Card Poker Suite. Version 1.00.
   • The Standard Poker Suite. Version 1.00.
   • The Standard Poker Library. Version 1.01 and 2.0.0.
   • The Wild Card Poker Library. Version 1.01 and 2.0.0.
   • The Video Poker program and its source code.
   • The Bit Twiddling Toy and its source code.
   • The Color Toy and its source code
   • The ASCII Toy and its source code.
   • The Number Toy and its source code.
   • Source code for the Delphi Articles.
7. Links - This page contains a few links to useful sites on the net. Most are for Delphi programmers. I have tried to limit this page to sites I visit fairly regularly (and that I know are still operating). Please contact me if you find any broken links.
8. Standard Poker Library - This page contains a description of the Standard Poker Library and its support files. This library works with Delphi 1 through Delphi 7, Delphi 8.NET, and Delphi 2005.
9. Wild Card Poker Library - This page contains a description of the Wild Card Poker Library and its support files. This library works with Delphi 1 through Delphi 7, Delphi 8.NET, and Delphi 2005.
10. Standard Poker Suite - This page contains a description of the Standard Poker Suite and its support files. This suite works with Delphi 1 through Delphi 7, Delphi 8.NET, and Delphi 2005.
11. Wild Card Poker Suite - This page contains a description of the Wild Card Poker Suite and its support files. This suite works with Delphi 1 through Delphi 7, Delphi 8.NET, and Delphi 2005.
12. Tools - This is another (smaller) links page that concentrates on the tools that I use in Delphi programming.

If you have problems with these pages, contact me at charlesappel@mindspring.com
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