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Ben Shimmin

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More options 26 Mar 2007, 15:51

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From: Ben Shimmin <b...@llamaselector.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:51:47 +0100

Local: Mon 26 Mar 2007 15:51

Subject: Re: Future of Risc OS

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Jeremy Brayshaw <jer...@brayshaw.org.uk>:

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> We're drifting a bit off a RISC OS topic here, but there are MSN
> clients for MacOS which do make use of a webcam - Microsoft's own
> version doesn't, but try aMSN, which is the one I use on the Mac.
> Maybe that could even be ported to RISC OS, as I think it is
> open-source?

There are actually two open-source MSN clients for the Mac which support
webcams for audio and video -- aMSN and Mercury Messenger. Predictably,
since they are multi-platform affairs, they are fairly horrible. Better
than nothing, but fairly horrible. I generally try and encourage people
to use AIM, so I can just use iChat. Skype is also surprisingly pleasant
to use on a Mac.

aMSN is written in Tcl/Tk and Mercury in Java: neither tremendously helpful
from a RISC OS perspective, I think.

As someone else said, you have to worry about getting USB webcams to work
too. Even on Macs, this was rather non-trivial until last week, when Apple
included support in OS X for UVC webcams (before that, you had to install
additional third-party drivers and software).

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