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From wikipedia: "...[Danny Thorpe] in 1994 while at Borland, he contracted with Santa Cruz startup Cinematronics (David Stafford and Mike Sandige) to build a component model and collision physics engine for a software pinball game. Cinematronics licensed an early version of the pinball engine to Microsoft" Maybe Borland and Delphi has something to do with the 'T' prefixes. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Thorpe

In Crete there is a dairy product called Xygalo (Ξύγαλο), basically the same word. But I think it look more like cream cheese than yogurt.

Sorry, it's the same in Delphi (Pascal successor). The compilation time goes up exponentially as number of units goes up. Compilation of 2.000 files (750.000 lines) takes about 20 minutes.

A lot of people are thinking to move out because of the steps backwards in all fronts such as law enforcement, health and social care quality, education quality etc. Everyday life gets worse for everybody more or less. Economy does not collapse without collateral damage.

I remember it as one of the best two player games ever, so I guess, given enough time we could master anything :)

On an Atari ST we were playing with a mouse and a joystick. Still a great experience!

Very nice story! Imagine that around the same time, in a parallel universe, Nokia was making the 9210 and 7650 smartphones with similar capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9210_Communicator

It's not a coincidence that so many apps are iOS only. For example (I guess that) the recent success app Horizon is iOS only because the developers cannot sell from Greece through the Play store. The same happens for many apps from many countries.

CocosBuilder is now abandoned, I think. The creator is building something similar (cocos2d only, not cocos2d-x) and the cocos2d-x guys are building CocoStudio (Windows only, no javascript, for now). Although I love the idea working with javascript for cross-platform development, the whole project feels immature.

Some trivia: Diomidis Spinellis is currently the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomidis_Spinellis ]