WookieChat allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat networks (IRC) and chat with other users in a text medium in real-time. Some of the server groups are preconfigured to join an Amiga chat channel upon sucessful connection. Executables are provided for AmigaOS 3.x,4.0, MorphOS and AROS
WookieChat is uncrippled SHAREWARE. If you like this piece of software, please register! Registration is NOT mandatory! No feature is disabled!

Download beta versions of WookieChat here! These are the executables + catalogs only. Please install the full package first, then run the beta exe's from that directory!

25th August 2008 - WookieChat 2.10 emergency bugfix now available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

Over the last few months, I found that the tabs in wookie were messing up on ocassion, and I could never reproduce the errors on demand... until this month! It turned out opening a private tab manually was the cause. It would cause weirdness that eventually led to a crash. It's now fixed!

Also two minor tweaks..
- When a netsplit is repaired, mode changes by the server are now accepted by WookieChat.
- The toggled menu items have a tick now, instead of a radio button.

24th July 2008 - WookieChat 2.9 now available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

Lots of changes, in particular:

- Pasting delay, to send lines of text slowly to prevent disconnection
- Charset support works better now, using a Find Best codesets.library function
- Tabs can be sorted alphabetically now, a side effect is that channels and private tabs are grouped together
- The Main Settings window looks a lot nicer now, I put a lot of effort into making MUI layout things nicely
- Less unnecessary refreshing of the display happens when you switch tabs, which feels a lot nicer on slower machines
- Fixed a problem where heavy incoming traffic was being written outside of the receive buffer (whoops)

.. Plus many more weird bugfixes. Click here for a full list of changes in v2.9

17th December 2007 - WookieChat 2.8 now available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

Fixed an error with disposing of a datatype sound object. It caused crashing under MorphOS if this sound was played repeatedly and quickly. The object is now disposed of then allocated again when prefs are retrieved, rather when Wookie needs to play the sound.

16th December 2007 - WookieChat 2.7 now available for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.0, MorphOS and AROS.

Lots of changes in this release. Optional graphical smileys with themes and smiley popup chooser, graphical nicklist, configurable charset support, unread messages counter, automatic changing back to primary nick if you're disconnected and you reconnect before your primary nick times out, various GUI enhancements and options, nick completion works in private tabs now, an alpha quality AREXX port, enhancements and improvements to the Colour Settings (loadable themes, pictures able to be used in backgrounds), the /away command now affects all networks you're connected to rather than just the one being displayed, the IRCNet and BitlBee networks work better now because Wookie is no longer hardcoded to channels beginning with "#", added a "Clear all buffers" menu item, attempting to open a private tab to someone when one already exists will not open a duplicate anymore and instead switch to the existing one, there are quit/join notifications in private tabs now so you can see when someone you're chatting to privately has left IRC, added autojoin and nickserv password fields to the Servers window, bugfixes, and more.

Click here for a full list of changes in v2.7

Release Notes:

Graphical smileys have a transparent background under MorphOS and OS4, but not under OS3. For this reason, I have included two additional smiley sets with black backgrounds, and white backgrounds.

The ARexx port is very buggy. If you want to play with it, read the docs on how to enable it. But its turned off by default due to being quite crap. I might work on it in the future though.

When using listview-style tabs some users report crashes when enough tabs fill the display to cause a vertical scrollbar to be created. Please change your NList vertical scrollbar setting to "Auto" or "Always", as it seems to crash with "Full auto".

Zune is still a bit weird with WookieChat, i.e. when configuring colours, and when remembering window size and positions.

Some users have reported random disconnection. Turning off event sounds can fix this. It seems the datatype system waits if it cant play audio straight away, such as when the MAME arcade emulator is running. In this situation, when the IRC wants a response from your machine, it doesnt get it.

Screenshots:

Previous Releases:
2.6 OS3, 2.6 OS4, 2.6 MOS, 2.6 AROS, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2.1, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.9.3, 1.9.2, 1.9.1, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.62, 1.61, 1.6, 1.53, 1.52, 1.51, 1.5, 1.4, 1.3 OS4 beta, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1b

WookieChat was originally going to use Reaction, but I've switched to MUI for various reasons.. but if you want to try this early version, you can get it here: ReactionChat ..I have also given the source code to a friend who hopes to develop it further.

I'm usually online on AmigaworldNET #Amigaworld as jahc. You can /msg me if you want. My email address is also listed in the readme in the archive if you need to email me.

(If the buy now button fails, or if you wish to send an alternative amount of money/donation/whatever to me, please send it through paypal to james.carroll at xnet.co.nz)

Enjoy.