I retired a little while ago, and started writing VB6 code again - just because I love the feel of the IDE and the fast snappy feeling. Most other IDE's seem so slow these days. So I installed Visual Studio 6 again on my windows 10 computers, and loving the programming world again! Hahaha

I found this site this year, and brings back so many memories. How many still use VB6 these days? For work or just for fun. I started making OpenGL games from Blender OBJ files, and the first thing I ran into was the lack of PNG support. (laughing - oh, how old this language is....) So, not wanting to use libraries, I wrote a PNG loading function so I can use those nice images purely within VB6. :-)

Slow as snot right now (takes like a minute for a 2024x2024 image), so I am going to see if I can speed things up since I wrote it to "understand" DEFLATE and PNG file structure, and Huffman decoding! Really fun if you like that sort of thing. Code is rather readable, function calls, and zero efficiencies so I can learn the logic.

Any other souls out there that like to do things like this? Or is it just my mind failing into the twilight zone? :-) Anyway, it's nice to see you all around here!