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Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

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Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

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post #2

Wow. I first came across Microsoft Chat in the late 1990s, at age 11 or 12. To this day it seemed ahead of its time... avatars with multiple options of facial expressions, comic book layout. I miss it.

I wonder how long before Comic Slack

I’d actually enjoy slack if that existed :)

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

#12
post #9

>Not only does Comics Mode work correctly, but I am even able to download other users' custom Comic Chat Characters (AVB file extensions) The internet was a different place where downloading avatars over a p2p protocol directly from peers and then showing them in a chat application without any additional warning was something that could be done. I'm not just talking about exploiting issues with malicious files (heck,…

I would assume that's what a chat on IFPS would do, woudn't it ?

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

#13
post #2

Wow. I first came across Microsoft Chat in the late 1990s, at age 11 or 12. To this day it seemed ahead of its time... avatars with multiple options of facial expressions, comic book layout. I miss it.

I wonder how long before Comic Slack

Are end user computers with 32gb ram going to be norm anytime soon?

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how long before Comic Slack

Are end user computers with 32gb ram going to be norm anytime soon?

They'll have to be if this trend of writing applications using Electron continues.

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

#16
To my disapproval (I'm a Linux fanboy) my partner bought a Windows laptop, and a bunch of old Windows games for the kids. Guess if the games worked on Windows ? We tried all combinations of compatibility modes. Guess where the games did work ? Yes they worked on Linux with Wine.

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

#17
post #5

I remember banning people using it as it used to spam channels with CTCPs for the comic book state

Ah, the good old embrace, extend, extinguish strategy; even for something as innocuous as this. I wonder if it was that deeply baked into the company's culture that it unintentionally surfaced in apps like this.

Nothing is stopping anybody from reimplementing their own Comic Chat client using existing IRC client tech. The only issue is it bleeds over on normal servers, which is likely why Microsoft probably originally used their own servers (idr I just remember my sister using Comic Chat in the 90s).

Re: Successful Installation of Microsoft Chat on Ubuntu Linux via Wine 3.0

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post #4

I wish MS would open source this! I’ve noticed it tends to segfault randomly if you connect to the wrong IRC server, so it must be riddled with security holes. However, it beats the heck out of slack on resource utilization and functionality. :-)

There are some wrapper "sanitizers" around to make it work despite of bugs, like https://pastebin.com/hLcMBVDQ :D
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