# Space Rangers HD — Free Pascal Port: adapting recovered Delphi source

> Space Rangers HD — Free Pascal Port adapts recovered Delphi source for Space Rangers HD: A War Apart to Free Pascal. It documents compatibility changes for Delphi arithmetic, floating-point and control-flow behavior and targets desktop, mobile, browser and Switch platforms using player-supplied game data.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/pakompom/SpaceRangersHD_FPC>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/pakompom/SpaceRangersHD_FPC/blob/1d1835a1e6b3846ffdb76eb687c07e41f8aafcb5/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/space-rangers-hd-free-pascal-port-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/space-rangers-hd-free-pascal-port-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/space-rangers-hd-free-pascal-port-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-provided copy of the game data is required.
- **Prerequisites:** Builds require Python 3.10+, FPC 3.2.2, GNU Make, CMake 3.20+ and Clang 14+.
- **Limits:** The robot battle engine is not integrated; Android touch layouts remain in progress.
- **License:** The MIT license covers custom port additions; underlying game decompilation and third-party components retain their own terms.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/pakompom/SpaceRangersHD_FPC/blob/1d1835a1e6b3846ffdb76eb687c07e41f8aafcb5/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/pakompom/SpaceRangersHD_FPC/blob/1d1835a1e6b3846ffdb76eb687c07e41f8aafcb5/CHANGES.md>
3. <https://github.com/pakompom/SpaceRangersHD_FPC/blob/1d1835a1e6b3846ffdb76eb687c07e41f8aafcb5/LICENSE>

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