The attached program converts a folder of text files in Windows ANSI format (code page 1252) to the most common Windows Unicode format, UTF-16 using little endian byte order. It allows you to specify the source and destination folders (UNC paths are supported), whether or not to overwrite existing files in the destination folder if they exist, and to even strip off the optional leading Byte Order Mark file header.

It is written in Delphi 2009.

Freeware by Cornelius Concepts.

There's a really good list of all the conditional defines that have been defined in Delphi (and even Turbo Pascal) over the years at Delphi Wiki. But if you want to see how to use them in code or add a few more for your self to test, here's some code to get you started.

This simple project compiles in all the recent versions of Delphi. If you want to compile it in earlier versions, you'll have to remove a line in the main project file--but you'll quickly realize that when you go to compile.

FREEWARE from Cornelius Concepts.

TurboPower LockBox is an open source library of encryption routines for Delphi and other Borland compilers (see the SourceForge site for more information).

DBISAM Demo is a sample project that shows how easy it is to work with DBISAM, a powerful database library that integrates beautifully with Delphi.

A PowerPoint presentation was also created to talk about the many features of DBISAM. The PowerPoint (included below as 2004-11_DBISAM_4.zip) was presented at Oregon Delphi User Group in November, 2004.

Rail Baron is a great table game by Avalon Hills, but is tedious in that there's a lot of dice rolling and table lookups to make the game realistic. This simple program greatly reduces that tedium by simulating the dice rolls and doing all the table lookups for you, thus allowing the players to concentrate on the game itself.

NOTE: You must have the board game to play--this program simply speeds the game play up significantly.

First written in Delphi 6, it now compiles in Delphi 2006. If you don't care about the code, just download the "exe" version below and run it in Windows. There's no install needed.

FREEWARE by Cornelius Concepts, Inc.

PicViewer is a Windows 32-bit program that lets you scan through a bunch of graphic files (.JPG, .BMP, .ICO, etc.). It has a full screen mode in which the background is black and the cursor is hidden. In this mode, the spacebar or arrow keys step through each of the graphic files in the directory thus making it easy to give a slide show. A movie mode has been added to provide automated naviation. The pictures can be scaled to fit the window or shown in full-size mode with scrollbars if needed. Command-line parameters can start in a given directory, initiate movie mode, etc. The files can be filtered by type (file extension).

Inspired by the book, "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", this program aids in exploring the MU Puzzle presented there. It deals with manipulating sequences of "M"s and "U"s using certain rules to try to come up with a specific pattern of characters. This is a prime example of a programmer looking for an excuse to write a program!