One of these features was a better uptime counter, since the function I was using was GetTickCount(), with 32 bits representing milliseconds, it was limited for 49.7 days before it would rollover back to the beginning again.

I found a value in the registry that was updated regularly and was used to store a 64 bit uptime, though it was documented as not reliable to use on all system.

This new uptime counter allowed up 585 million years to pass before a rollover, which for systems using Windows, was very doubtful would be able to achieve.

Eventually it was requested for KalDLL to also have the ability to output information about what is currently playing in Winamp.

So after a bit of research again, I found that using the Windows message system, I could retrieve information about the current song and artist being played in Winamp.

I found some code on the internet which would, using assembly, retrieve information about the CPU.

Further expanding my understand of using C++, I began using the CreateWindow() API to create buttons, lists and text boxes for input, and the WM_PAINT message for drawing images.

My first attempt at this gave the looked of a low memory system, unless I managed to change the font object being used.

With a slightly improved version, it was possible to create custom "/<command>" for mIRC that could be formatted to output specific information from one of the many libraries I had added to KalDLL.

It all started when I was on IRC I wanted to get someones attention, it was quite important at the time since they were my web host and they hadn't payed their bill so my sites were down.

But despite efforts to get their attention, they were AFK, so I began work on a mIRC script that would play a few beeping sounds if a certain character string was typed.

The script became quite popular on the IRC channel and eventually spread to other channels and servers.

I eventually made if so that you activate the beep, you needed to send "@<username>" where "<username>" is the name of the person your trying to get the attention of. So for me, it was "@Kaluriel"

There was a limitation to the script though, which was that it wasn't asynchronous to mIRC so everything frozen until it had done.

And if multiple people had spammed it, you could be stuck and eventually disconnected from the server for not replying to a PING message.

So I began work on a plugin for mIRC that would multithread this process, and give better control over composing. So I began work on KalDLL.

I don't have any images of the KalDLL version of away beep so I've substituted with the KalDLL Pro version, theres not much difference, I kept the same style during the port over.