thanks! @gigatron! now i need to convert back! :)
talking about Delphi, did you try Lazarus as well? and consider also trying Free Pascal Compiler (specially for command-line based tools)
i didn’t know that some part of .tic specification documentation can be found at https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/RAM (specially the sound/music part) - i need to try it for confirming