No… the first version of the software (The one you refer to as: "The nice software until one night..." and the one showed in this post) was an application written in MATLAB app designer.
I decided to scrap the MATLAB version and program a “real” modern C/C++ software with the same and more features.
The MATLAB version had very slow performance, slow video rendering, slow startup, slow connection, slow everything and needed a specific version of python to function (which A LOT of people had trouble getting to work correctly). The MATLAB version also had a size of Gigabytes, because of the large MATLAB runtime (which is very slow), which resulted in a very large RAM usage – making it unusable on medium spec computers (4GB RAM PCs and single board computers was a NOPE).
At the time, where I decided to scrap the MATLAB version, was also the time where my MATLAB license ran out, and I didn’t really want to spend 1500$ (or spend a lot of money on monthly subscriptions) for MATLAB & Simulink + all of the different packages I needed to keep the MATLAB version running.
One of the most frustrating things about the MATLAB version was that, from one update to another, they could completely change how many parts of different build-in functions work – breaking the MATLAB version of the software everytime a new MATLAB update was released.
The MATLAB version was a fun and quick way to make a simple application like this, but it was very slow and very far from a professional software and only high-end computers could run it well.
The MATLAB version was free for this reason.
If I gave you the MATLAB version of the software today, you wouldn’t be able to run it, because it was written to support a version of python that MATLAB no longer supports + a ton of other different MATLAB faults from newer MATLAB updates. So, the MATLAB version is scrap.
I have not used EEVBlog for “idea” hunting.
All suggestions and interesting related software features have come directly from the many user suggestions from my discord channel.
At the moment I don’t plan on making a limited free version, but if it is something that people want, I would be happy to make such a version.