I've just setup a quick WiP page on my website to allow me to keep everyone up-to-date with my progress on the Instant Messenger application I'm writing.

Currently there are only a few screenshots running on OS4, but I hope to add to the features and progress reports as time, and progess, goes on.

Have a gander at The Snakepit - Epistula

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@Slash

It looks very nice! Good to see it progressing

You don't need a beta-tester?

@Slash

I'm curious, would Reaction support a GUI like the one you have developed here with MUI?

@Slash

Great...any planing for OS3? and what is whit ICQ plugin??

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@Slash

Excellent work, i feel a lot more confident about IM on amiga when i see this. Keep the good work coming...

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@Slash

This looks interesting.

But I'll have to concur with VooDoo on this one, what about an ICQ plugin?

I'm currently using Jabberwocky for that, and it's the only thing I'm using it for. It works, and that's great. I'm able to connect and keep in touch with my friends. But it ain't Licq, which I was using on Linux and found to be a rather nifty little icq-client.

Granted, Jabberwocky's not an icq-client, it's a jabber-client with support for icq. And I appreciate the fact that it's available, otherwise I wouldn't be able to connect at all. But I don't use jabber, I don't use any of the other protocols, I'm not interested in those. Just ICQ, and preferably as advanced as possible.

So if your application along with an ICQ-plugin would provide a bit more funcionality than using a jabber-client, then I'd find it very, very interesting. I wouldn't mind giving it a go as soon as possible, so if you do indeed have ICQ-support in the works, a "pre-release" would be most welcome!

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@Slash

Great! This is very intersting! (even more interesting of my AMIShots )!

A date for a preview?

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Looks nice so far Slash. Something I've always wanted to be able to do on JabberWocky is to have the ability of having individual protocols on or offline at my request. I know it's early days but could you look into the possibility of this?

eg. Having MSN online while AIM is offline.

In other news, how is Homer coming along on OS4? I haven't seen the Homer page for a while & I'm looking forward to him wandering around my Workbench bumping his head on low hanging windows & saying the obvious

Keep up the good work!!!

FuZion.

I've just updated the Epistula website with a FAQ... hope that answers a few of your questions

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would Reaction support a GUI like the one you have developed here with MUI?

Looking at the screenshots I can't see any GUI feature ReAction isn't capable of.

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@Slash

ohh FAQ..great,great,.now you can upload fisrst beta to public :)))

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@Slash
hey there,
great to see you developing. keep up the good work an all, but I have a question
i'm not too sure, but it seems like epistula and jabberwocky are doing the same thing. any chance of some unity in development? could you guys club together and work on one program that does all the instant messaging things.
in the past there were different web browsers and some did some things and others did other, but there wasn't one universal one that did everything you needed. i think the same could be said for email clients.
i know it's great to have variety, but it would be nice to have a simple amiga world for the next generation of users where there was one program for each task (to start off with at least) that does all that it needs to do.
i'm a fine one to talk as i dont even have a working amiga, but we need to build a strong platform and i think that unity and developers putting their heads together is the way.
what do we think?

cheers
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i'm not too sure, but it seems like epistula and jabberwocky are doing the same thing

Nah, they're not the same Jabberwocky has it's own servers which connect to the various other protocols, Epistula connects directly to these protocol, i.e. you don't need a Jabber account to use MSN or AOL, or ICQ.

I know where you're coming from but they're quite different, well as far as I'm concerned anyway.

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@Slash

cheers for clearing that one up.
even so, would it still be a possibility to share ideas and work in unison to create programs that don't overlap?

it must be nice to know that your cause is something that others feel strongly for and want to solve too.

cheers
niceguy1979

@Slash

I almost forgot to ask. Do you have plans to support file transfers? I have buddies on AIM that keep on pestering me to get a PC so they can transfer files to me (You don't wanna know how many times I've told them about e-mail, ftp, irc etc... But no, AIM is the ONLY way... Apparently).

FuZion.

@FuZion

That's the plan dude

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@Slash

Add http(s) proxy support so I'm able to use it, and you've got a winner :)

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

@Slash

When you planing upload fisrt demo version to public?:))

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@Slash

Or more to the point, when do us OS4 beta testers get a copy to play with?

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@Slash
Wow cool!

Great work.

Webcam functions would be cool to and something I saw on another chat program: a world map which shows the location and the picture of the buddies you're talking to. (3D with poping up pictures would be cool)


Don't forget to give OS4Depot a demo

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