[JDEV] [Fwd: Cool idea! (Jabphone ;-)]

[Julian Fitzell]

On 21/07/00 at 3:10 PM David Waite wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
>> Appleweed
>>
>> Also, you might take a look at http://www.rogerwilco.com/
>>
>> Roger Wilco is a standalone app that does exactly what you are talking
>> about. *Many* people in the gaming community use it as a means to
>> communicate while playing MMORPG (Massively Multiuser Online Role Playing
>> Games) and other types of online games. Once again, I believe you
>> could use
>> Jabber as the means for individuals to find one another and
>> create a client
>> that launches Roger Wilco appropriately for real-time communications.
>
>Yes, amazingly enough there are enough people who like Roger Wilco that
>Microsoft has decided it would be really innovative to create something
>exactly like it. There is voice transmission stuff in DirectX now, although
>I don't know where. If they use any standard encoding methods whatsoever, it
>could be interesting to support that as well.

Yes, Microsoft bought ShadowFactor's BattleCom and integrated the technology into DirectX.  I used BattleCom for quite a while before this and my opinion was that it was generally better than Roger Wilco (although the Linux version of the RW server won me over in the end <g>).

Julian