Arantor
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Where I've been moving house I've been packing and throwing things out, as you do, and I figured it was also a good time to go through the massive archives of clutter I'd accumulated over the years, the Downloads folders of doom across my different laptops etc. and just tried to condense it into a single archive of stuff and also filter out the things I didn't care much about any more.
And so I found this little thing. Execution and its sequel Execution II: Revenge of the Guillotine were some of my more interesting projects in Visual Basic in 2000/2001, the first game was a simple two player Hangman style affair, the sequel had a one player mode with a library of things you could guess from.
And despite the fact the file compilation date is 14/06/2001, all it needed was one DLL (the MS VB 5 runtime, MSVBVM50.dll) and it seems to work flawlessly on Windows 10.
I didn't make good UI in 2001. I'm not sure I'm better at it now - but this all worked, didn't behave weirdly, didn't crash, didn't pull any of the really silly bugs.
Definitely one from the vaults.

And so I found this little thing. Execution and its sequel Execution II: Revenge of the Guillotine were some of my more interesting projects in Visual Basic in 2000/2001, the first game was a simple two player Hangman style affair, the sequel had a one player mode with a library of things you could guess from.
And despite the fact the file compilation date is 14/06/2001, all it needed was one DLL (the MS VB 5 runtime, MSVBVM50.dll) and it seems to work flawlessly on Windows 10.
I didn't make good UI in 2001. I'm not sure I'm better at it now - but this all worked, didn't behave weirdly, didn't crash, didn't pull any of the really silly bugs.
Definitely one from the vaults.
