When was PicturesToExe first Published

[Barry Beckham]

I may be doing a PTE demo in the next few months and I'd like to use this information as an example of the softwares longevity and robustness.

Perplexity AI says 2005, but surely it was earlier than that, or am I mistaken

 

[Gérard de Lux]

AI is wrong (how surprizing !).

The very first (very basic) version of PTE has been released on July 2nd, 1999. Version 1.60 was published on February 24, 2000; version 2.0 was releleased on March 21, 2000. And so on, and so on.

There's a very well informed story (based on Igor's own statements) written in 2008 by Marcel Boi, French AV author, which I attach in PDF; of course, it's in French, which is good for you. "PTE - what a story" is the translated title, it counts 14 A4 pages with many screenshots of the new features of the different versions of PTE.

pte_quelle-histoire.pdf

[henry64200]

Merci Gerard !!!

effectivement ca remonte ,a l'époque  je commençais a utiliser mon 1er PC et j'achetais le Magasine PC et Windows il donnait avec le magasine un CD avec des nouveaux logiciels a l'essai et c'est dans ses CD que j'ai trouvé PTE de Igor !!

et quelle évolutions !! depuis toutes ses années !

un grand Merci a Igor et toute sont équipe !!!

 

[chanfi22]

Thank you Gérard for this very interesting retrospective on PTE

[Igor]

20 years ago, on May 1st, we published the first Beta version of the legendary PicturesToExe 5 with keyframe animations. V5 was released on June 18th, 2007.