AIM client for Win98

I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling me that in
a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with my old computer
unless I upgrade to the latest version...that requires Windows 2000 or
XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant Messenger
with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the time to pass links to my
new computer or to communicate with friends while I'm in the middle of
a game on my newer system.

I also use the file transfer feature from time to time. Especially if
a friend has a corrupted .dll or otherwise and needs an old file to
get his legacy system working. I can't think of much else I use
regularly besides the away messages. I don't use chats much, maybe
once or twice a year and usually on my newer system.


So are there any clients for win98 that will work with those features?
Chats are unimportant, and the public chats haven't worked in a while.

I apologize for cross posting this, but gen_discussion seems to be the
only active group remotely relevant post-shutdown.

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other older
microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

SlickRCBD wrote in

ups.com:

I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling
me that in a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with
my old computer unless I upgrade to the latest
version...that requires Windows 2000 or XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant
Messenger with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the
time to pass links to my new computer or to communicate
with friends while I'm in the middle of a game on my newer
system.

Miranda is nice. I used it for a little while until I got sick
of chatting/messaging. I don't know if it still works on 98 but
you have dozens of alternatives.

Wikipedia lists them all with most of their + and -'s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._messaging_cli
ents

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and
other older microsoft products now that the newsgroups are
orphaned?

No idea. If I have problems, I'll ask in 24hoursupport.helpdesk.
Once MS finally fishes their hatchet job (I reckon a year or
two, considering their organizational skills and their strict
adherence to scheduling in general) DL the updated NG list from
your server and search it. As it is, there is alt.windows98 and
others.



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as it requires us to show great respect for everybody, whereas
most people deserve none at all; and again in so far as it
demands that we should feign the most lively interest in people,
when we must be very glad that we have nothing to do with them.
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SlickRCBD wrote in

ups.com:

I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling
me that in a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with
my old computer unless I upgrade to the latest
version...that requires Windows 2000 or XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant
Messenger with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the
time to pass links to my new computer or to communicate
with friends while I'm in the middle of a game on my newer
system.

Miranda is nice. I used it for a little while until I got sick
of chatting/messaging. I don't know if it still works on 98 but
you have dozens of alternatives.

Wikipedia lists them all with most of their + and -'s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._messaging_cli
ents

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and
other older microsoft products now that the newsgroups are
orphaned?

No idea. If I have problems, I'll ask in 24hoursupport.helpdesk.
Once MS finally fishes their hatchet job (I reckon a year or
two, considering their organizational skills and their strict
adherence to scheduling in general) DL the updated NG list from
your server and search it. As it is, there is alt.windows98 and
others.



--
Of course, it is no easy matter to be polite; in so far, I mean,
as it requires us to show great respect for everybody, whereas
most people deserve none at all; and again in so far as it
demands that we should feign the most lively interest in people,
when we must be very glad that we have nothing to do with them.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"SlickRCBD" wrote in message
...
I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling me that in
a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with my old computer
unless I upgrade to the latest version...that requires Windows 2000 or
XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant Messenger
with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the time to pass links to my
new computer or to communicate with friends while I'm in the middle of
a game on my newer system.

I also use the file transfer feature from time to time. Especially if
a friend has a corrupted .dll or otherwise and needs an old file to
get his legacy system working. I can't think of much else I use
regularly besides the away messages. I don't use chats much, maybe
once or twice a year and usually on my newer system.


So are there any clients for win98 that will work with those features?
Chats are unimportant, and the public chats haven't worked in a while.

I apologize for cross posting this, but gen_discussion seems to be the
only active group remotely relevant post-shutdown.

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other older
microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

You can access your AIM account as well as other IM accounts with the
legacy version of Trillian 3:
http://cerulean.cachenetworks.com/tr...-v3.1.14.0.exe

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+
http://dts-l.net/

"SlickRCBD" wrote in message
...
I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling me that in
a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with my old computer
unless I upgrade to the latest version...that requires Windows 2000 or
XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant Messenger
with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the time to pass links to my
new computer or to communicate with friends while I'm in the middle of
a game on my newer system.

I also use the file transfer feature from time to time. Especially if
a friend has a corrupted .dll or otherwise and needs an old file to
get his legacy system working. I can't think of much else I use
regularly besides the away messages. I don't use chats much, maybe
once or twice a year and usually on my newer system.


So are there any clients for win98 that will work with those features?
Chats are unimportant, and the public chats haven't worked in a while.

I apologize for cross posting this, but gen_discussion seems to be the
only active group remotely relevant post-shutdown.

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other older
microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

You can access your AIM account as well as other IM accounts with the
legacy version of Trillian 3:
http://cerulean.cachenetworks.com/tr...-v3.1.14.0.exe

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+
http://dts-l.net/

SlickRCBD wrote:

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other
older microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

For win-98, go to the newsgroup alt.windows98. Or keep using this one -
there is no technical reason why it or other microsoft will disappear
from usenet.

Or go to the win-98 forum on msfn.org.

SlickRCBD wrote:

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other
older microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

For win-98, go to the newsgroup alt.windows98. Or keep using this one -
there is no technical reason why it or other microsoft will disappear
from usenet.

Or go to the win-98 forum on msfn.org.

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:34:19 -0700 (PDT), SlickRCBD
wrote:

I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling me that in
a few days I won't be able to log on to AIM with my old computer
unless I upgrade to the latest version...that requires Windows 2000 or
XP.

Why would anyone *WANT* to use AIM (or for that matter, AOL)????

YUK !!!! AOL SUCKS THE BIG ONE !!!!

While I agree with you, it is possible (in UK anyway) to connect to AOL
without using the AOL software, but any ordinary email software (and a
browser for the web). I recently set up someone with a new(er) computer,
and managed to persuade her - though she wanted to stay with AOL,
possibly so as not to have to change her email address - to let me set
it up with something normal (I think I used Thunderbird, though it might
have been Outlook Express; I certainly used Firefox). The AOL software
suite is indeed bloatware of the first water.

I _think_ there are even ways to connect to AIM without using the AOL
software - though I'm not sure about that. (This wasn't important in my
friend's case, as she didn't use it.)
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On Jun 17, 5:20 pm, "glee" wrote:
"SlickRCBD" wrote in message

...



I just got an automated message from AOL yesterday telling me that in
a few days I won't be able to log on toAIMwith my old computer
unless I upgrade to the latest version...that requires Windows 2000 or
XP.

What alternate client can I use to connect to AOL Instant Messenger
with my windows 98 computer? I use it all the time to pass links to my
new computer or to communicate with friends while I'm in the middle of
a game on my newer system.

I also use the file transfer feature from time to time. Especially if
a friend has a corrupted .dll or otherwise and needs an old file to
get his legacy system working. I can't think of much else I use
regularly besides the away messages. I don't use chats much, maybe
once or twice a year and usually on my newer system.

So are there any clients for win98 that will work with those features?
Chats are unimportant, and the public chats haven't worked in a while.

I apologize for cross posting this, but gen_discussion seems to be the
only active group remotely relevant post-shutdown.

P.S. What other free support areas are there for win98 and other older
microsoft products now that the newsgroups are orphaned?

You can access yourAIMaccount as well as other IM accounts with the
legacy version of Trillian 3:http://cerulean.cachenetworks.com/tr...-v3.1.14.0.exe

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+http://dts-l.net/

That trillian link didn't work. The installer performs an illegal
operation almost immediately when I try to use it. I've redownloaded
twice.
I've been hoping somebody would respond with a program that actually
works.
I can't figure out how to get Miranda to work.

On Jul 17, 7:39 am, Michael Romes wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) schrieb:
...

I _think_ there are even ways to connect toAIMwithout using the AOL
software - though I'm not sure about that. (This wasn't important in my
friend's case, as she didn't use it.)

Trillian?

Please give me a link to a version that will install on Windows 98SE.
The link in this thread does not work. It performs an illegal
operation.