Microsoft Chat 2.5

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

I was surfing my Win98SE disk and i came across a few programs i didn't know existed.

I been playing around with this microsoft chat all day.its kind of cool.

I would like you guys input on if i should keep it or not.

[LLXX]

So MSN Messenger doesn't work on 98SE?

[Steven W]

It's been a few year since I have messed with it. It's an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) program. I think that most folks who still use these would agree with me that mIRC is a better program and is still be developed however, it's not freeware. You can evaluate it free for 30 days:

http://www.mirc.com/

Seamonkey includes chatzilla, IMHO it's a waste it's java based and always seemed very slow to me.

If you google "opensource IRC" several results come up which you may want to check out, the first result is Besirc:

http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home

it has a Windows version. Never tried it. If you find a good one that is still be developed would you let me and anyone else that may be interested know?

Those of you interested here is a link to some info on IRC:

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html

[Dave.Net]

I really loved MS Chat back in '99. It just worked. It was a free, easy-to-use irc client with a clean interface and I didn't need any of those xtra features for nerds that other clients like mIRC were offering.

Secure? I don't know. I never had any problems back then but this is another century.

[LLXX]

IRC? I just use netcat or telnet...

BTW there's also the (not so tiny) "TinyIRC" : http://www.tinyirc.net/

[BenoitRen]

Seamonkey includes chatzilla, IMHO it's a waste it's java based and always seemed very slow to me.

ChatZilla rocks. It's easy to use and has no whizbang. It's JavaScript-based, not Java-based, or it'd be REALLY slow.

[darks0ul]

Comic chat is REALLY cool. Just try to imagine how it does all that comic drawings... the original paper is amazing!

[LLXX]

Seamonkey includes chatzilla, IMHO it's a waste it's java based and always seemed very slow to me.

ChatZilla rocks. It's easy to use and has no whizbang. It's JavaScript-based, not Java-based, or it'd be REALLY slow.

They're both slow scripting languages.

[Steven W]

@LLXX

You're correct; my mistake. The last time I used this was a few years ago it seemed very slow then. I just tried it out with Seamonkey. It' much improved.

Thank you!