MaxxChat 1.3.0a

2.8 out of 5 stars 2.8 (14 votes)

(July 22, 2001)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 1,682 downloads

MaxxChat integrates AIM, MSN, and ICQ interoperability with IRC. Send and receive Instant Messages on ICQ, AIM, MSN, and IRC with this one product. Now with tons of other features ranging from built-in Internet TV and Internet Radio to news, stocks, weather, MP3 player, and Web Search facility all in a thin toolbar-type interface that fits neatly at the top of your screen.

Reviews of MaxxChat

  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    tem0

    Reviewing 1.0.8a (Nov 7, 2000)

    Heh 4mb oh the horror! You guys are babies bloatware is like 40mb not 4mb...Its a good idea and i hope more irc clients are available.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Latz

    Reviewing 1.0.8a (Nov 7, 2000)

    It works better than FreeMem Professoinal on my low ram (64 MB) Win2K system. And it's free!

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Edelbrock

    Reviewing 1.0.4a (Oct 12, 2000)

    Personally, _I_ thought it was kewl.

  4. 2 out of 5 stars
    Tridus

    Reviewing 1.0.1c (Sep 12, 2000)

    Ok... first of all, skin support is *NOT* an execuse to make the default interface terrible. It seems thats a growing trend, lazy developers just make it skinnable so they dont have to design a real UI, they can use the skins execuse instead.

    Second of all, this program is horrid bloatware. The download is what, *four times* that of mIRC? And for what? I'm not seeing anything here to justify all that extra space that should actually be in an IRC client.

    I don't expect this to challenge mIRC's throne in the IRC world, there are far too many IRCers who like a simple clean interface in a small non bloated program. This fails on all counts.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    lecatpuke

    Reviewing 1.0.0c (Aug 11, 2000)

    Just seeing authors use fake names to give their programs props and ratings makes me not want it. It's NOT a bad idea for yet another IRC client, but take the criticism and make it better. If there are good points, someone is bound to point them out eventually.

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