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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by HeckFeck »

thunderwow wrote: post #43
HeckFeck wrote: post #35

There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…

Microsoft Music Producer: http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346

That's the one.

I searched the web archive and found the website I had in mind above. It has plenty of info on MMP, as well as downloads of extra music styles.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicm...

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by mherdeg »

sterkekoffie wrote: post #8
volkadav wrote: post #5

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

Out of the loop, anyone know when/why Jerkcity became BoneQuest?

It happened in the first half of 2018 (between March and May).

Kind of baffling.

Without having talked to them, my assumption is that a Florida area Jamaican restaurant reached out to them and said "hi, we're called Jerk City, can we have your web address? we'll give you $100" and they thought this was hilarious and said yes.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by jasonjayr »

TecoAndJix wrote: post #50
notadev wrote: post #39

We were still using this for classified chat in the Navy like 5 years ago. We didn't use the comic feature, just the normal IRC client. Eventually we followed other services and went to mIRC before the .gov paid some software company a ridiculous amount of money to make a very simple Java-based IRC client called Mako. It was like a software project you would do in an intermediate Java class, no bells and whistles. Ri…

Not all ships moved to Mako! I learned the very hard way what “slap” in mIRC means in a large strike group chat!

Appropriate in a Navy setting of course. Who doesn't keep a large trout around for slapping?

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by Loughla »

fimdomeio wrote: post #44

At some point Microsoft chat allowed sending executable files. This was also around the same time backorifice was very popular. This was also around the same time most people were connecting via dialup that was bought in packs of 30 hours. Some people had unlimited time, and aparently more than one person could be using the same account at the same time. Somehow all this events combined made all the internet kids in…

Looking back, the early days of our internet use were so weird.

We had a dial-up connection and a computer well before anyone else in our county/tri-county area in the mid-west. We also had a home line that was a party line.

All the old ladies in our small (Weird times. Why did the company even offer internet connections to a party line? What an odd thing to do.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

enneff wrote: post #17
jszymborski wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I missing... these all seem like non-sequiters.

You need to be versed in the deep lore to understand it, basically.

It looks like it's just a bunch of dick jokes, but if you look deeper, you realize that it's seriously so many dick jokes.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by Moru »

thunderwow wrote: post #43
HeckFeck wrote: post #35

There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could down…

Microsoft Music Producer: http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346

Thankyou! I have been thinging of that one for many years but didn't know the name to search for. Instructions and downloads on that page works just fine with windows 10 so far. I set it to compatible to Windows 7 but not sure that is even needed.

Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by [deleted] »

volkadav wrote: post #5

mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux

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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat

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Post by dole »

mike_d wrote: post #3

If you'd like to play around with it you can still find downloads by Goolging "mschat25.exe" Here is a proxy script that will allow you to connect to a modern IRC server: https://gist.github.com/richardg867/bb19ca2b03545f71ae15 Edit: another fun read was the methods for getting third party IRC clients to connect to MSN's IRC servers directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Chat

default channel is usually #Microsoft_Chat. this script works on freenode, unfortunately hardly anyone uses it.
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