Tools used in development of Effectus

Free Pascal
Free variation of Pascal, combining power, speed and flexibility, matched even with Delphi, with which it is partly compatible.

Object Pascal development tools, which could also be used in this project

MSEide + MSEgui
Pascal Cross Platform GUI Development System

Lazarus
Pascal Cross Platform GUI Development System

Other tools

UPX
A free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats