Pascal, co-founded by Adam Slavney and Jinyoung Seo, has raised $8.5 million in a follow-on seed round co-led by Sazze Partners and LB Investment, with KDB Silicon Valley also participating. The company says appliances built with its newly discovered material could run about 20% more efficiently than current refrigerators and heat pumps, and it has signed a pilot contract with a multinational beverage company. Pascal expects to deliver a first prototype in early 2026 and more refined refrigerator units by 2028.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-21
The Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) team has added support for dynamic packages, letting developers compile and load Lazarus-style package files such as .lpk units at runtime. The example shared includes a sample ElectroTools package with unit files and a TPackageType record exposing RTTI details like unit name, type name, type kind and class information.
getlazarus.org
· 2026-10-18
Developer SupraGSX has created a custom Nvidia ForceWare 382.69 driver that brings support for Pascal-generation GPUs, including the GTX 10-series and Quadro P2000-P6000 cards, to 32-bit Windows XP. The driver combines code from several older Nvidia releases and adds modern display features like DisplayPort HBR2/HBR3 and HDMI 2.0 support, with most cards supported except the GT 1030 and experimental support for the GTX 1050 Ti.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-04
The Castle Game Engine documentation outlines how developers should handle file and stream input/output, recommending the TCastleTextReader class for reading text and the Download function for retrieving data from URLs, local files, HTTP/HTTPS, Android assets, and game data directories via castle-data:/ URLs. It also covers container options in Object Pascal, noting three generics libraries available in FPC—Generics.Collections, FGL, and GVector—and recommending Generics.Collections for its efficiency, feature set, and compatibility with Delphi.
castle-engine.io
· 2026-09-24
A developer is building a simulator for CII's Mitra-15, a French 16-bit minicomputer from the early 1970s, by adapting an existing SDS 940 simulator within the SIMH framework. The project is still in an early, incomplete stage, with core instruction sets, memory management, and numerous peripheral devices like disks, tape readers, and various I/O channels still to be implemented. The developer relied heavily on documentation compiled by Pascal Chour due to the scarcity of surviving Mitra-15 materials.
github.com
· 2026-08-27
A technical article breaks down the mathematics behind bezier curves, showing how repeated linear interpolation between control points produces the compact polynomial formulas used in graphics software. It explains why cubic beziers with four control points are the industry standard, since only the first and last points are guaranteed to lie on the curve, and how longer curves are built by joining multiple cubic segments with matched tangents for smoothness.
acko.net
· 2026-08-24
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