Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on?

[yereverluvinuncleber]

The first version was created using VB3

Has the core functionality always been more or less the same? What was the development machine under win95, do you remember?

I remember using a directory differences tool under open VMS years ago and it was an essential component when I maintained the systems that controlled the chocolate factory at MARS back in the late 1990s. We used it to compare the folder structures of two different machines over DECnet.

Looks like your tool has been a good source of income over the years.

[AAraya]

Has the core functionality always been more or less the same? What was the development machine under win95, do you remember?

I remember using a directory differences tool under open VMS years ago and it was an essential component when I maintained the systems that controlled the chocolate factory at MARS back in the late 1990s. We used it to compare the folder structures of two different machines over DECnet.

Looks like your tool has been a good source of income over the years.

Initial development was either on a 386 or 486, can't recall which.

The core functionality of comparing folders has always been there but the implementation has evolved quite a bit to make it more scalable, performant, handle error conditions better, handle Unicode file/folder names, etc.... Additional related functionality has been added over the years.

Over the last 18 years, FolderMatch has provided a full time income for about 10 years and part time income for about 8. Before that it was basically pizza money. It's had a good run in the world of shareware.

Now with so much of the world moving away from desktop applications and the flood of quality freeware, it's harder.