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Was it Delphi or the installer? I do not have Delphi 6 but i have Delphi 2 and while the installer doesn't work out of the box (IIRC you can make it work with otvdm which can run 16bit programs on 64bit windows) you can simply just copy the files from the CD and it'll work.

Here is a screenshot from ~5 years ago when i was playing around writing a Quake 1 level editor in Delphi 2 under Windows 10[0] (i switched to using Linux as my main OS soon after and converted it to Lazarus[1]).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/I48gyMv.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/7MSH98p.png

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As I recall, the installer seemed to complete fine, but the IDE itself had problems, and this was consistent on every Vista and W7 computer. Windows XP computers could run it without issue.

It's been a long enough time that the details have left my brain, but the feelings of pain have not been forgotten :-)

Hey this is interesting. Did you write the rendering code in Delphi too?

Did a bit of search, is it QuARK?

Yes the rendering code is in Delphi too. It uses an OpenGL control i wrote some years ago[0] which include OpenGL bindings for Delphi 2 (i haven't tested later versions). The control is actually a conversion of one i made for Borland C++ Builder [1].

It is not QuArK, though AFAIK QuArK was made in Delphi too. There have been a few other Quake editors made in Delphi, like the qED Quake Editor which was one of the earlier Quake editors (the author wrote a book about quake mapping too[2]).

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/dglvp/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/bcbgl/

[2] https://archive.org/details/unofficial-quake-level-design-ha...

Thanks, I like your website BTW. It reminds me of the 90s.

Man I love it. Back in 1999/2000 I was very into Quake mapping and Half-Life mapping. I didn't make any good maps but the community was great. I remember talking to other mappers on ICQ every night.

I believe the community is still thriving.

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