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Originally Posted by Mblake81
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Well, no. If GINA was created for windows framework 4.0 it did in fact not exist in the era we are playing. So unless there is a reference I missed on his forums site then i would say GINA itself did not exist.
A program like GINA *could* have existed but no one except for one player here that I just made a response to has mentioned it. That is because he wrote an "accurate but questionable" program that he used for personal use because "it wasn't good enough to share or sell". We wouldn't find this program on a website or a forum because it wasn't shared, so far only one guy would have used it and claims such.
GINA looks to have been put in after the Velious era, this is not totally certain as I have not scoured the GINA forum for an exact date.
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I don't know if this adds much to the conversation, but I was making a pretty comfortable living at the time as a consultant in NYC (don't be too impressed, with Y2K, anyone with any skill was getting work). If I had found something commercially available, I certainly would have bought it instead of rolling my own.
But really guys, writing something to display timers based on a stuff in a text file takes near to no skill at all. Even back in 1999, it could literally be a "learn to code" project that you would tackle after hello world. Saying that nobody but me thought of it or had the capability is a really, really big stretch.