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Sarc · Sep 12, 2004, 03:39 PM

just wanted to gather some opinions on these clients from ppl. that actually used them.

there's Mercury (dmsn) and aMSN.

I'm just tired of waiting for significant updates from Proteus or Adium ...

anyone ?

macintologist · Sep 12, 2004, 04:32 PM

I used them on OS 9 because they are the only alternative. On OS X however I use Fire for connecting to MSN.

Java sucks, period.

Tick · Sep 12, 2004, 04:33 PM

Originally posted by Sarc:
just wanted to gather some opinions on these clients from ppl. that actually used them.

there's Mercury (dmsn) and aMSN.

I'm just tired of waiting for significant updates from Proteus or Adium ...

anyone ?

What "significant" updates are you referring to, exactly?

Sarc · Sep 13, 2004, 09:31 AM

handwriting
simultaneous conversations
webcam/audio (both amsn and mercury are close to getting it)
display avatar properly
etc.

mercury also has some nice pluses like blocking the outgoing "is writing a message", and checks who deleted/blocked you from their contact list.

I used to use proteus, and it sorta got stuck. so did adium.
hence I wshitched to the java clients.

so far I can tell that ams is far more optimized (CPU usage and OS X integration), yet mercury just feels better.

Jim Paradise · Sep 13, 2004, 01:09 PM

I haven't used Mercury, but aMSN is light years ahead of MSN's own application.

F_Elz · Sep 13, 2004, 07:51 PM

I use aMSN.

hutchy · Sep 14, 2004, 06:24 PM

...as do i. Tried dmsn, full of features, dont like how new chat windows always are the same huge size, it doesnt seem 2 remember like amsn does...

ambush · Sep 14, 2004, 08:10 PM

aMSN ALL THE WAYYYY

with MSN4 skin, it KICKS!

ambush · Sep 14, 2004, 08:12 PM

Originally posted by Tick:
What "significant" updates are you referring to, exactly?

misogynistic sailormen

Sarc · Sep 14, 2004, 09:23 PM

Java sucks, period. [/B]

actually, I have a newly found respect for Java, courtesy of dMSN and Azureus.

Angus_D · Sep 15, 2004, 09:46 AM

AMSN is written in Tcl/Tk, not Java.

Powaqqatsi · Sep 15, 2004, 10:38 AM

I really wish that someone would make aMSN into a real OSX app. And fix the damn file transfer on OSX.

hutchy · Sep 15, 2004, 02:34 PM

Ive had no problems with the file transfer in amsn, whats wrong with it?

Powaqqatsi · Sep 15, 2004, 03:07 PM

Originally posted by hutchy:
Ive had no problems with the file transfer in amsn, whats wrong with it?

Doesn't work. And it's not my router and/or firewall. Even with all ports open it doesn't work.

hutchy · Sep 15, 2004, 03:25 PM

with the normal msn client i had that problem 50% of the time, amsn fixed it somehow... never had to set up firewall for it or nothing... strange

Powaqqatsi · Sep 15, 2004, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by hutchy:
with the normal msn client i had that problem 50% of the time, amsn fixed it somehow... never had to set up firewall for it or nothing... strange

The other way around here. MSN Messenger always works. And a friend of mine who uses aMSN has the same problem and I read about it on sourceforge (IIRC) and it seems we are not the only ones.