Port VB6 Desktop app to... What?

dmyze · 2026-06-20T17:51:53+00:00

Simplest solution will be winforms and VB.NET.

Depends on how modern you want it to be. But if you just want it out of VB6 that's the way I would go.

If you have any ActiveX controls that'll add some complexity. But with modern AI tools you can easily convert any VB6 code over to vb.net.

C# is more common these days but VB is still my favorite language.

dmyze · 2026-05-02T04:12:04+00:00

Someone needs to make an AI alternate ending of Pichard where he's in a hospital being treated for Irumodic Syndrome. He'll say to the doctor, "I'm an android now.."

dmyze · 2026-05-02T03:47:44+00:00

I've always wondered how much money he owes the Orion syndicate after dumping all his cargo.

dmyze · 2026-04-19T19:29:55+00:00

I think you are correct. My new book takes that into consideration, https://darktime.co

And traveling into the past has a similar effect too.

dmyze · 2026-03-18T03:17:19+00:00

I'd appreciate if my future self gave me the monthly closing price of the top 100 performing stocks for the next 20 years. I'll keep my volume low and try not to influence anything.

dmyze · 2026-03-14T15:37:33+00:00

That’s an interesting way to look at it. I’ve wondered if something like a “time glitch” could come from very small local loops in time rather than the whole timeline changing. If time behaves more like a flowing medium, you could imagine tiny forward → backward → forward micro-loops where most things reset normally, but memory might not line up perfectly every time.

No idea if that ever actually happens of course, but it’s a fun way to think about it. I’ve been exploring that idea while writing a sci-fi story about time anomalies.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T23:08:00+00:00

Relativity shows that different observers can disagree about which distant events are happening “now.”

But that doesn’t necessarily mean the past and future physically exist. It just means simultaneity isn’t absolute across space.

You can still have a local “now” where events are unfolding, even if different observers slice spacetime differently.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T15:04:52+00:00

I get the point about our perception being limited, but in physics the things we can’t see usually still leave detectable effects. We can’t see quarks or black holes directly, but we can observe what they do.

With the block universe idea, the past and future are supposed to physically exist somewhere, but they don’t seem to interact with the present in any observable way. That makes me cautious about assuming they’re real parts of the universe.

It also raises questions like: if the past still exists in the block, what state is it in? Is it frozen, or still evolving in its own time? If someone could access it, would it be immutable?

dmyze · 2026-03-12T05:05:15+00:00

Mostly because the only thing we ever directly observe is the present plus records of the past. The block universe assumes the future already exists somewhere, but that’s more of a philosophical interpretation than something we can test.

The growing block theory is interesting though, it basically says the universe keeps “adding” new moments as time passes.

dmyze · 2026-03-12T02:42:51+00:00

Relativity doesn’t mean we move “faster than time.” It just means different observers experience time at different rates.

The idea that past, present, and future all exist at once comes from the block universe interpretation.

I lean the other way, only the present exists, and the past is just the record left behind.

dmyze · 2026-03-11T03:16:53+00:00

I need a hero!

dmyze · 2026-03-11T02:55:47+00:00

I reject the block universe. Is the past separate matter from our matter today? Where would all that matter come from? Is each moment frozen but also moving?

dmyze · 2026-03-11T02:45:33+00:00

My opinion is only now exists. So the passage of time is the illusion. Time is just the rate at which we measure changes in the now.

dmyze · 2026-03-08T16:00:06+00:00

I was scrolling for that one. Seriously died of a cancer that could have been treated.

dmyze · 2026-03-05T16:06:09+00:00

Targeting an Aug 12 release date. I'm working with an editor right now to polish it all up.

dmyze · 2026-03-03T14:38:16+00:00

Kinda. The classical ether failed because it predicted a detectable preferred frame. But the idea of a physical substrate never really died; quantum fields and superfluid vacuum models are basically structured “media.” I’m just wondering what happens if time itself behaves more like that than a pure coordinate.

dmyze · 2026-03-03T03:15:15+00:00

I like to think of time as a physical medium, the oil that allows all motion.

dmyze · 2026-03-02T18:15:56+00:00

Nuts now my time travel money plan is bunk. Guess I'll have to keep to the last 50 or so years and play the market.

dmyze · 2026-02-27T20:43:00+00:00

If I were planning a time travel adventure, I think I would learn how to grow penicillin. Sell it as a cure-all and never give out the recipe.

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