"Rather than try to get it running on Mac or Linux systems, why not make it work as a remote service so that Mac or Linux users could connect to it over the internet? "

Nice idea, but that costs money and time.

"None of these icons (rows 2 & 3) is critical to the program"

But it looks totally crap, and as a shareware program, if I looked at it once, even if I used it, I certainly wouldn't pay for it! Unless those bar are removed, and then the learning curve gets steeper. But it may be worth the effort to produce a different version, once we can get the sound to work.

The only problem with changing to a different type of Basic, is that they are usually mutually incompatible. I peeked: even though it has a 30 day trial, it is an Object Oriented language, so it's highly likely that the VB5 code will just not work, needing MANY hours of rewriting. At $100 -> $1,000 depending on version, I doubt Pavane would make money on the deal.

I've run out of steam for the moment, sorry pavane.