The history of PA?

[Ricco]

As we can see, PA is now coming to 9.25. (9.5 soon!) How was the day when PA was in 1.0 and thereafter? I still remember PA (freeware age) was the archiver installed in my college during my post-secondary study life.

Is there any website providing such information?

[TBGBe]

@Ricco:

Is there any website providing such information?

Click on HISTORY in the menu bar on the left - goes to January 2004.
For full history, read the WHATSNEW.TXT in the PowerArchiver progam directory - this goes back to September 1998 :eek:

[Ricco]

Wow! 1998, quite interesting!

[spwolf]

@Ricco:

Wow! 1998, quite interesting!

yep, one of the oldest compression utilities these days, after old heavyweights… It was by far the most popular freeware compression utility until 2001 when we went shareware… Come to think of it, that was more than 4 years ago!!!

[Ricco]

Any difficulty faced when turning into shareware? Any serious protest received?

[TBGBe]

@Ricco:

Any serious protest received?

Of course not…

Everybody using the free version was fully in support of this change
At least until the Forum software at that time crashed and burned :p

{Please don’t start that topic again }

[Ricco]

@TBGBe:

{Please don’t start that topic again }

Oh… why? Did I say anything improper?