Clients

OberChatten

About

OberChatten is the official client for OverChat on the Win32 platform. It is up-to-date and often has experimental features which you won't find in other clients. However, often being a testing client, it is sometimes unstable.

Requirements

  • Windows 9x, Windows NT/2000/XP
  • A small amount of disk space, around 2MB .
  • An OverChat account. (Requires registration)

Features

  • Private conversations - Yes
  • Group chats - No
  • Chum notification - No
  • File transfer - No
  • DCC converstions - No
  • Encryption - Yes
  • Disconnection notification - Yes
  • Full privilege support - No
  • Offline user errors - Yes

Download

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  Servers

OverChat (official)

About

This is the official OverChat server, written in C, based on the Blake library. It is a portable server which is being ported to many different architectures.

Requirements

  • Linux, FreeBSD or possibly other Unices
  • Several libraries (listed on the compile page)

Features (latest release only)

  • Message relaying - Yes
  • Chat room ready - No
  • Msg2 text/sub-protocol - Experimental
  • Chum notification - No
  • File transfer - No
  • DCC converstions - No
  • Encryption - Yes
  • Pre-emptive multi-threading - Yes
  • Windows NT support - No
  • GNU/Linux support - Yes
  • FreeBSD support - Yes
  • Full privilege support - Yes
  • Offline user errors - Yes
  • MySQL support - No
  • PostGreSQL support - No
  • Stable - Yes
  • Considered enterprise ready - No

Download

Main downloads site