I saw this the other day, VC6 Ultimate. It’s an interesting ‘update’ on the old Visual C++ 6.0 product with an improved UI, along with updated compiler toolchain taken from later versions of Visual C++. Naturally something like this is 1000000% unofficial.

Features include:

• Portable and compatible with Win7 / Win10
  bye bye regedit, hello .hjson setting file !
  also meaning it should not mess with your current install
• More compatible compiler
  multicore version of VC7.1 compiler (It’s fast)
  you can compile with other compilers (64bit), but not debug yet
• Real-time highlighting and diagnostics
  based on libclang 6.0 and compatible with VisualAssistX
• Real multicursor editing
  search, sort, number, evaluate, etc. while in multicursor mode
• Improved UX and UI
  32bit icons, dark skin, lot of visual hints
  multi-monitor friendly
  revamped dialogs (project settings, threads, breakpoints, …)
  searchable command palette
• It’s free (as in free beer)
  ever had to pay for a birthday present ? 😉
• Every change has a toggle
  only take what you like, but we can not check each combination
• It’s an internal spare time project
  don’t expect everything to work in every setup, but feel free to reach out

Included in the bundle is the following compilers:

• clang version 3.8.0 (branches/release_38)
  Target: i686-pc-windows-msvc
• Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.6030 for 80×86
  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.
• Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.40310.41 for AMD64
  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

It’s an interesting project, although I tried to re-build some Visual C++ 2003 projects and it bombed out. Maybe it’s just more geared towards VC 6 as indicated.

You can download it here

https://gitlab.com/VC6Ultimate/VC6Ultimate