ANN: Experimental Chat System

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

I've been playing around with an idea for a peer-to-peer chat system using 
UDP as the protocol and XML as the packet delivery method.  I realize that 
this isn't an Apple II application, but since I'm an Apple II user, and you 
all are Apple II users, maybe a few of you might want to give it a try and 
see if we can get an open Apple II chat community going.

The software is for Windows, you'll need the DotNetFramework 2.0 on your PC 
for it to run. I've tested it on WinME, Win2k, and WinXP.  If it works well 
enough, i'll open up the source so any Linux or Mac programmers out there 
could write a client.

Anyhow, if you do use it, let me know how it works.  I do expect problems as 
I know UDP isn't a "reliable" protocol, but I am interested in finding out 
just how well it performs, or doesn't perform.  It works perfectly on my 
LAN, but I haven't tried it over the internet.

You'll have to be able to set Port-Forwarding on your router and configure 
your PC's firewall, but the average Apple II user is more than comfortable 
messing with stuff like this.

Anyhow, to download the program: 
http://boycot.no-ip.com/software/boycot_chat_client.htm

To create yourself a chat account: http://boycot.no-ip.com/BoycoTChat