I'm amazed that this forum still exists
I'm even more amazed that my account here still works
I'm as surprised as amazed that
someone else actually still posted in 2024
But what
really surprised me is that I – who still uses
Compare It! and Synchronize It! to this very day, every single day, simply because there's still nothing else that comes even close – randomly found out that after about a decade of waiting for an update since the last official release 4.2 there was actually a new beta 4.3 available in 2020 under a secret link
... which sadly marks also the year that Igor left a few posts here and there for the last time, after an even longer hiatus of 8 years before that
However, I noticed you (or maybe a rep?) are still reading silently, so here's something somewhat special for you from me:

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PC Plus, June 2004 = also almost exactly 10 years ago
It took me more than an hour to scrape this from the last hidden corners of the Interwebz and another 10 minutes to make a nice edit from the original PDF I eventually managed to dig up – so I hope
you enjoy the surprise this time!
The final beta update mentioned above seemed to be minor after all, I couldn't make out any difference to the version that I had already been using for ages before, probably just some critical fix under the hood that was acutely necessary. All the desired features still missing, all the beloved bugs still present, haha! But actually sad, because it's still the best.
Speaking of which:
grigsoft wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:12 am
But I will add it shortly, it's not a problem.
"shortly" = 15 years later ... and still s.o.l.
Don't worry though, not that anyone urgently needed said feature, I didn't even remember it exists until I read the above — so that small side note was just for the giggles
On that note, Igor, I hope this message out of nowhere finds you well! Maybe you even shed a little tear in view of your "Value Award" proof above, and drop me a short line in return? It's probably not easy to get a reply from you these days, but with the minimal chance that you might still be remembering our mail conversations about sync + cmp development back in the days, and at some point kindly gifting me a sub for my steady and eager contributions, you never know …
Best regards, murphy