Developer tools

A number of crashes and multiplayer out-of-sync bugs have been fixed in this patch, resulting in improved game stability. In particular, the Computer Player Resigning Bug has been fixed, so the computer player will no longer resign after a few minutes of play.

Licence: Free Patch
Online: http://www.microsoft.com/games/age2
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires:

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Based on Perl 5.6.1, this is an enhanced distribution, encompassing and taking advantage of the new features in Perl 5.6.1. In addition to the core binary code, this program includes a Perl extension installer and manager. The Windows package also includes Perl for ISAPI and CGI PerlScript. Perl for ISAPI is an IIS plug-in that enhances the speed of standard Perl. CGI PerlScript is an ActiveX scripting engine for Perl.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.activestate.com
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Windows: x86, 35M hard disk space, Service Pack 5 for Windows NT, Microsoft Windows Installer 1.1 and Internet Explorer 5 for Windows 95/98 and NT, DCOM for Windows 98, DCOM and MSVCRT for Windows 95 Linux: x86, 35M hard disk space, 2.0 kernel, Web browser Solaris: sparc, 35M hard disk space, Solaris 2.6, Web browser

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AppleScript is an easy-to-use scripting language that is as consistent across applications as the Macintosh graphical interface itself. It is designed to meet a wide range of user needs and levels of experience. This package contains user and developer documentation, AppleScript software, sample code and sample scripts for modifying or creating your own AppleScript scripts.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: N/A

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This is a full-featured integrated development environment that is able to create Windows or DOS-based C/C++ programs using the Mingw compiler system (included with this package), or the Cygwin compiler.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.bloodshed.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: N/A

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A 32-bit ANSI C++ optimising compiler for Windows, this program includes the latest ANSI/ISO C++ language support including the RTL and the STL framework with C++ template support. This compiler is the core of the complete Borland C++ application building program: C++ Builder 5.

Licence: Freeware. Non-supported version.
Online: http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium, 32M RAM, 50M hard disk space, Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4

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As well as being a stand-alone tool, this program is an integrated component of Borland's C++Builder software. It is a popular debugger tool for C and C++ developers that can used with Borland C++ Compiler. It can be used to control 32-bit Windows application execution and to view the different aspects of the application at runtime. These include program output, source code, data structures and program values.

Licence: Freeware. Non-supported version.
Online: http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/turbodebugger/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
Requires: N/A

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This product provides a team-based visual programming environment for development and deployment of voice and wireless data applications. It provides multiple methods for developers to optimise applications for use on a wide range of mobile channels. These include voice channels for all landline and mobile phones and wireless data channels for Pocket PCs, Palm devices, WAP, SMS and I-mode.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.covigo.com/
Operating system: Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium 500MHz,128M RAM, 200M hard disk space, Java 2 SDK 1.3.0 must be loaded on your system before installation

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A set of tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX/Linux to the Windows platform, this product delivers the open source standard Red Hat GNU gcc compiler and gdb debugger on Windows. In addition, it provides for a standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows including APIs and command shells. The Cygwin.dll library (included) delivers the interesting subset of UNIX SVR4, BSD and POSIX APIs to enable quick ports of UNIX/Linux applications to the Windows platform.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.redhat.com/products/support/cygwin/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Requires: 75M hard disk space, Internet Explorer 5

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For the complete programming novice, this is a great language to begin with. It is intended to be most appropriate for the hobby or student programmer. It consists of an integrated editor, compiler and debugger. It also comes with a graphical interface editor called FreeForm. This version makes it easy to write Windows software such as utilities, business applications and games.

Licence: Shareware. There is a limit on how large a program the user can compile in the unregistered version.
Online: http://world.std.com/~carlg/
Operating system: Windows 3x, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium, 8M RAM for Windows 3x, 16M RAM for Windows 95, 32M RAM for Windows 98, 64M RAM for Windows NT (Windows 2000 as yet untested)

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This guide contains tips, tricks and tweaks for optimisng, enhancing and securing Windows operating systems. This is all packaged in a convenient Windows HTML help file. It is a database used to store settings and options for the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users and preferences of the PC.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.winguides.com/registry/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: If you are having problems viewing the Windows Registry Guide help file you may need to download this HTML Help update from Microsoft. ^^ link "HTML Help update" to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/hhupd.exe ^^

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