FW: Rant, Rant, Rant....

[Gregory Davis]

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> From: Gregory Davis <grgdavis at swbell.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:24:10 -0600
> To: mac games list <MacGames at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Rant, Rant, Rant....
> 

> Ok.... I have a question/Rant to ask/go on.
> 
> Does anyone use Roger Wilco (used Roger Wilco)?  I used to use it all the time
> with my old 8500.  But since I¹ve got to OS X I haven¹t looked back.  The only
> software I miss is the old Beta of Roger Wilco for Mac OS 9.  I used to use it
> with my friends every day.  We would spend 2 hours a day playing any Blizzard
> game and just talking away.  (i.e. When one of them wasn¹t having problems
> with their PC recognizing their microphone or various other PC related
> conflict problems that they always had with the software.)  I never had a
> problem with the Mac version of the beta software.
> 
> But then again I don¹t have to mess around with the IRQ settings and all the
> other nasty stuff that they did in Windows 98 or 2000.
> 
> Anyway I really miss not having a OS X native (Cocoa) version of this
> software.  Recently I went out to http://www.rogerwilco.com and noticed that
> it didn¹t look like it had been updated in a long time.  I wonder why?
> 
> There is even a Linix version of the software.  Would it not be pretty easy to
> port the Linix version to OS X?
> 
> Is there not some kind of voice chat software that will allow OS X Mac¹s and
> PC to chat while keeping down bandwidth and allowing you to play a game?
> 
> Does Game Ranger allow for this kind of chatting?  Then again Game Ranger is
> Mac ONLY and it is a great service but I doubt that my friends will ever buy a
> Mac no matter what they could do with them.  It¹s too bad too because they are
> both kick-ass programmers who could make a killing porting some of this
> software over.
> 
> Please someone port Roger Wilco or tune me into an alternative?  I¹d gladly
> pay if it works correctly.
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