After Dash's thread about stats on Operating Systems and seeing the overwhelming amount of Mac users I was wondering if anyone uses ichat and if you use the audio chat for team play? TBM or TS?
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Napalm

Last edited: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 7:33:10 AM

I use iChat and have an iSight camera. I have never considered chatting during a game though since I imagine that it would eat up valuable bandwidth. Sure would be fun though.

I don't believe it will. If you use the video feature I believe it would be considerable. I as well have an isight. We sould try it during a pick up game and see if performance suffers. Whatcha think?
Napalm

Hmm… I don't use iChat, I use AdiumX. That is a GREAT idea about the audio chat while playing TTs though. Corey and I are getting our iSights in Jan so we'll definitely have to try it out w/ anyone that's willing :)

Yea I might try to get a hold of Wiz and check it out. I know he as well has a G5 with an isight. We do video conferencing but hvae not yet tried the audio chat in a team environment. Maybe I can find something out before the weekend. Great way to coordinate your team. We used it in battlemode but is was on Window using yahoo. The Mac client for yahoo does not as of yet support audio chat. There was a 3rd party product that wiz told me about that supposedly supports audio chat crsoo platform.

Napalm

@ LilAlienD (FU)

Does Adium support audio chat?

I use iChat. I know Jangles and Tally Ho used to use it during games but I can't remember if they noticed lag or not.

It would be cool to run iChat on my PowerBook while playing TT on my desktop Mac.

Hmmmmm.

Sniper

I didn't think of that. I could do that as well. Some testing needs to be done.

Adium doesn't support audio… it's a good program though, especially for work. It's fully customizable so it can be ultra condensed and quick to hide from an incoming boss :)

I use iChat and an iSight, but that's for talking to my dad when he's away on a business trip. Otherwise, I don't use both much, because you can't warn people and make profiles in iChat.

I have an iSight on my G4 iMac. I use iChat to video chat with my folks. I have had Activity Monitor running while in a video chat and it does take up quite a bit of CPU. I've noticed the same thing when I have TT running, it takes a lot of CPU. I doubt my machine could handle both apps running at the same time and that is just a CPU limit. I haven't even checked network bandwidth usage.

An audio chat should be less of a resource hog (CPU & bandwidth). It might work out okay with TT running at the same time. I think the current iChat only allows a video or audio chat between 2 people (no group chats like text messaging). I know the next iChat update (with OS X Tiger), allows up to 10 people in an iChat Audio Conference. That would be neat to have during TS or TBM games!

^ Didn't even think about that (10 person conference). Damn that's gonna be awesome, a whole 5 man team yelling commands back and forth at each other.

Can't wait.

Yeah I am a recent iChat adopter. It is really quite cool. You can drag over links, files and pictures -- they just appear on the other side - way cool!

Yahoo voice chat has already been done with multiple team members...works great

B

Apple's next OS named 10.4 Tiger will have a highly improved iChat app provided. Sounds like a fun idea. I'll join w/ yas when Tiger ships.

@ Bolo

Yes and it would be perfect if Yahooo for the mac supported voice but it currently does not. Of course if there are that many Mac and we are the mojority the PC's could just use AOL for pc just for the games which supports cross platform audio chatting. Last BM season more people on my team were PC based so I ran yahoo on my laptop and played TT on my Mac.

@ MJ

Sniper wrote:

That would take care of the cpu and all that would be in question would be the networking.

Napalm

Then get rid of those dam macs

B

Maybe after you get a job. Maybe~ XD