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PowerPC Chat apps that still work...
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All Phoenix does is to serve as a stand-in for AOL's defunct AIM server. If you couldn't use iChat for Apple Messages before, then you still won't be able to now, I'm afraid.
iChat has been off since Mavericks. Sadly, the real way to communicate on internet is disintegrating. This is why I hate technology of today. iChat I had 7000 friends now all are gone because Apple took the damn servers off line !
Google Talk works with Messages on Mavericks, so I'd be surprised if it didn't work in iChat too. Make sure to turn on "Less Secure Apps" in your Google account, which is required. If it still doesn't work, you might also try an https proxy.
So you are saying iChat can still work ???? So, in Leopard I can still use iChat ? Apple didn’t take the servers off line ?
I do think it should work with Google Talk specifically, yes. That's using Google servers, not Apple servers.
it seems that is a little more complicated, as Google Talk moved away from XMPP, and then later got replaced with Hangouts. It looks like you can still have XMPP clients connect, but you're going to end up with limited functionality.
All I can tell you is it works for me on Mavericks once I enabled access for Less Secure Apps, and since I'm pretty sure Apple didn't touch any of this stuff between Leopard and Mavericks, I think it would work on Leopard too, and I think interested parties should try it. Up to you!
Tested IRC clients under OS 9 - Ircle connects and works. Also, admium works for IRC under Leopard.
iChat works with NINA AIM or Phoenix: http://iwarg.ddns.net/phoenix/index.php
Yes iChat works with the AOL phoenix server. (log in there , same as to AOL from win.) (add me ass friend -same id-
- no one to talk to).Only the dorkiest of dorks, like enthusiastic users of 20+ year old hardware. (me included!)
Well, KDX and Hotline do work. Not exactly chat apps (much more than that), but certainly having chat functionality.
Well, we've gone this far without mentioning the gamer app, at least by name. It has at least one working client for Mac OS X though that works on even G3s. Still perfectly usable on my G4 even with WebKit open. Phoenix seems interesting, and so does Escargot. I used to use IRC a ton back in the day but remember being such an utter being of pure, chemically separated cringe, given that I was like 12, that I'm still embarrassed to go back to it. I guess I can give it a shot, though, given all of the communities around it.
I am on most-days on my pc , last 8mo was a fiasco , they upgraded me to unsolicited 5G router so I pulled the plug , did not recover yet on fiber. may cancel net subscription (currently share-ing web from old nokia lumia 520 or huawei e270 modem from a sim card.)
After the official closure of ICQ, an alternative service was found nina.chat (also AOL, AIM, Yahoo, Q-Link protocols)
You can register your ICQ there. Until June 29, you can do it for free. Afterwards available with a small donation.
It's time to blow the dust off Adium
You can register your ICQ there. Until June 29, you can do it for free. Afterwards available with a small donation.
It's time to blow the dust off Adium