BORGChat

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BORGChat
Developer(s)
Stable release
v1.0.0 b438 (March 31, 2007; 14 years ago (2007-03-31))
Operating systemWindows 98/Me, 2000, XP
TypeLAN Messaging clients
LicenseProprietary / Freeware
Websiteborgchat.softnews.ro

BORGChat is a LAN messaging software program. It has achieved a relative state of popularity and it is considered to be a complete LAN chat program.[1][2] It has been superseded by commercial products which allow voice chat, video conferencing, central monitoring and administration. An extension called "BORGVoice" adds capabilities to BORGChat, the extension remains in alpha stage.[3]

History[]

BORGChat was first published from Ionut Cioflan (nickname "IOn") in 2002. The name comes from the BORG race from Star Trek: The Borg is a massive society of cybernetic automatons abducted and assimilated from thousands of species. The Borg collective improves by consuming technologies, in a similar way wishes BORGChat to "assimilate".

Features[]

The software supports the following features:[4]

  • Public and private chat rooms (channels), support for own chat rooms
  • Avatars with user information and online alerts
  • Sending private messages
  • Sending files and pictures, with pause and bandwidth management
  • Animated smileys (emoticons) and sound effects (beep)
  • View computers and network shares
  • Discussion logs in the LAN
  • Message filter, ignore messages from other users
  • Message board with Bulletin Board Code (bold, italic, underline)
  • Multiple chat status modes: Available/Busy/Away with customizable messages
  • Multi language support (with the possibility of adding more languages): English, Romanian, Swedish, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, Italian, Bulgarian, German, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Czech, Danish, French, Latvian, Portuguese, Urdu, Dutch, Hungarian, Serbian, Macedonian.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Softpedia pick award, rewarded 5 of 5
  2. ^ "Brothersoft editor's pick". Archived from the original on 2008-12-24. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
  3. ^ BORGVoice extension, BORGChat download page
  4. ^ BORGChat features

External links[]

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