| Click here to select a new forum. |
| AOL Instant Messenger on Macintosh Plus/SE |
Posted by: bedroom on 2023-03-15 19:10:52
hi, guys. i was wondering if there is any way to install an aim client on an se or plus. i checked out macintosh garden/repository, but 2.0.5 only works with 68030 macs, which unfortunately i don't have. is there any way i can get aim running on these machines, and if not, are there any alternatives i could use? |
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2023-03-15 23:18:42
From what I remember, back when AIM (1997-98 timeframe) was something I used, the memory requirements were such that it wouldn't run on a machine with less than 8MB of RAM. I also had the misfortune of having AIM freeze up solid. Froze up enough to actually scramble the boot blocks on my hard drive. Had to reformat the drive and restore from a backup that was about three years old at the time.
Possible that an early version of ICQ might run on a 68000 Mac. |
Posted by: AndiS on 2023-03-16 00:30:17
If you choose to run IRC instead, there are several clients available. It's different but still a chat.
Is the AIM network still operational even? |
Posted by: joshc on 2023-03-16 00:59:02
I didn't think the AIM servers were still running? |
Posted by: bedroom on 2023-03-16 07:47:02
Is the AIM network still operational even? I didn't think the AIM servers were still running? There is a group called AIM Phoenix that runs their own servers which can be accessed using official versions of AIM. This is their website.
Once I can get a raspberry pi set up so I can get the machine online, I'll experiment with ircle. |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2023-03-16 07:53:44
Ah, a bunch of conspiracists, I see. |
Posted by: bedroom on 2023-03-16 08:30:54
Ah, a bunch of conspiracists, I see. Yeah, lol. It's really disappointing actually. I used it about a year ago with a few of my friends and it was great, but revisiting the site and seeing scrolling Info Wars headlines was a pretty serious let down |
Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-03-17 23:24:51
Ah, a bunch of conspiracists, I see. I've met a few of them. It's not worth the effort to know them because they're so unyielding in their, ahem, "views." One I met was so bad, I couldn't talk about anything without getting some sort of conspiratorial response. Not even the weather (probably one of the dullest, most boring smalltalk subjects I know of). Even the English language itself was subject to a conspiracy. It's a madness!
Yeah, lol. It's really disappointing actually. I used it about a year ago with a few of my friends and it was great, but revisiting the site and seeing scrolling Info Wars headlines was a pretty serious let down They really know how to ruin a good thing, don't they?
Is their implementation of the new AIM server backend open source? It might be useful to establish some new servers and get some mainstream (such as, say, retrocomputing?!) discussion going.
c |
| 1 |