Borland Resource Workshop [UPDATED]

You wrote a .RC text file, compiled it with RC.EXE , and hoped the coordinates didn't overlap. It was functional, but it was blind.

For one brief moment, you’ll feel like a 1994 Windows wizard again. borland resource workshop

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Then came . And for a generation of developers, it felt like magic. What Was Borland Resource Workshop? Released in the early 1990s as part of Borland’s C++ and Delphi ecosystems, Resource Workshop (often called RWS.EXE ) was a visual resource editor for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows applications (Windows 3.1 through Windows 95/NT). Loved this deep dive into retro dev tools

It represents an era when software came in a cardboard box, documentation was printed on paper, and a single 500KB EXE could edit any resource in any Windows program.