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^ 'Davix's blog – Ubuntu es Divino : Includes an official reply from Miquel Olavarria who was responsible for the technology used'.Iradier, AMSN Founder and Lead Developer – OSNews 'aMSN 0.95 released after more than a year – TechSpot News'. ^ 'aMSN una alternativa gratuita para el Msn Messenger'.'New version of aMSN is available with new features'.

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^ '6 Alternative Chat Applications for MSN on Mac OS X'.

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^ 'Linux software reviews on Softpedia'.

^ 'aMSN Messenger Clone Ported to OpenSolaris'.

^ 'Top Downloads – For all time, updated daily'.

Archived from the original (PDF) on Febru.

^ 'aMSN in Linux on Linux Magazine' (PDF).

A message in the chat window informs you when the person closes their chat window.

A chat window pops up when the other person opens a window with you, even if they haven't typed anything yet.

Automatic storing of contacts' display pictures.

Encrypted chats (from the third party Kryptonite plugin).

Note that newly added contacts will show up as if they don't have you in their list, but older contacts will show up as they have you in their list.

This is no longer possible since Microsoft fixed this bug in its protocol.

Shows when contacts don't have you on their list, as well as contacts that have you on their list but are not in yours.

Plugins offer various other features as well.

Games that can be played between two aMSN clients (from a plugin).

Custom statuses that can include auto-messages for when user is away.

Complete emoticon support, including custom emoticons Įxtra features not present in the Microsoft client.

A plugin allowing the program to check non-hotmail POP3 addresses is also available

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Ability to start a conversation while appearing offline.Display pictures, including a manager that saves old display pictures like the one in the official client.Webcam send and receive (No longer functional due to removal from official client).

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Full voice and video conversations (no longer available due to changes in Microsoft SIP servers).

Nudges (included as a plugin where you may adjust various options).

Replication of Windows Live Messenger's look and feel.

Offline messaging (fully functional in development release).

Contact list and display name retrieval from Microsoft servers.

'What I'm listening to' personal messages (from a third-party plugin includes support for music programs like Amarok or XMMS in Linux).

Support for the MSN Protocol 15 (although it also allows use of both old and new protocols).

Features Features present in the Microsoft client In late 2010, Microsoft released Windows Live Messenger 2011, which removed one-way webcam functionality, meaning that aMSN is left with no practical webcam function. As a result of this, the video call function to aMSN was made unusable and was removed from versions 0.98.3 and 0.98.4 of aMSN. These changes included the use of P2P SIP instead of using an external server. With the release of Windows Live Messenger 2009, Microsoft made changes to the protocol used by Windows Live Messenger. Removal of video call and webcam functionality

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Its releases have appeared on several well-known blogs, its developers have been interviewed, and it has even appeared on a few TV series internationally. It has been reviewed by many software-specialized websites. For example, it is the only client that supports video conferencing on Mac. Today, the project keeps going thanks to the effort and help of an increasing number of developers, translators, and designers.ĪMSN is well known for quickly implementing most of the official client's features, often being the only third-party client that supports them. More developers joined the project, like Philippe G. ccMSN/aMSN was in fact the last of several free and open source projects in which Didimo worked. Grimaldo decided to take leave as a developer due to other pressing responsibilities and lack of time. The first version of aMSN was released on May 22, 2002, on SourceForge.Īfter several successful releases of their join effort, Didimo E. Grimaldo was also working on his own branch of ccMSN until both Alvaro and Didimo heard of each other in a development forum and decided to merge their improvements into one version. Alvaro Iradier made a fork of the development with his own version, aMSN (Alvaro's Messenger). Features in this application were quite limited and development seemed to be stopped. 2 Removal of video call and webcam functionalityĪMSN was based on a previous application named Compu's Messenger (ccmsn), released on September 21, 2001, by Dave Mifsud.