BORGChat
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Developer(s) | |
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Stable release | v1.0.0 b438 (March 31, 2007 )
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Operating system | Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP |
Type | LAN Messaging clients |
License | Proprietary / Freeware |
Website | borgchat.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has achieved a relative state of popularity and it is considered to be a complete LAN chat program.[1][2] It has been superseded by commercial products which allow voice chat, video conferencing, central monitoring and administration.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[]
- ^ Softpedia pick award, rewarded 5 of 5
- ^ "Brothersoft editor's pick". Archived from the original on 2008-12-24. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ^ BORGVoice extension, BORGChat download page
- ^ BORGChat features
External links[]
- LAN messengers
- Online chat