Re: Future of Risc OS
- From: News poster <mistymornings@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:59:06 +0200
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Jess Hampshire <phantasm_39@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <slrn.2007-03-26.14-35-32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>I am not sure how slow slow is, but Skype 2.0.0.2 seems to run fine with
Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I tried skype on my mac as a result of this comment.
It doesn't work very well. It crashed several times. Wouldn't seem to
do video, and the speech sounded like a cyberman. All this on a slow
mac, but one that is normally stable and runs iChat videoconference
quite well.
video on a 1.25GHz PPC mac mini (512MB). The first video enabled version
was a bit iffy but the above one seems fine.
I thought you needed a .Mac account to run iChat?
Cheers
Stan
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