Comic Chat for macOS 2.5.0

A native macOS port of Microsoft Comic Chat 2.5 — running the genuine 1998 layout and protocol engine under a modern SwiftUI shell. It connects to the surviving hobbyist Comic Chat / IRC servers (including full IRCX) and exchanges poses, avatars, and whispers with real 1998 Windows clients.

What's in it

• Live comic-strip rendering by the original engine — multi-room with a native sidebar
• Emotion wheel with cooked outbound poses; say / think / action / whisper
• Character & backdrop pickers, persona + profile, avatar announce & auto-download
• Room list & ops, member list with avatars, hit-testing (click an avatar to talk to them, balloon tooltips)
• Sounds in & out, save/reopen JSON transcripts, PNG/PDF export, print, plain-text view
• Auto-reconnect, notifications + Dock badge, favorites, server console (MOTD)

Install

Download ComicChat-2.5.0.dmg below, open it, and drag Comic Chat to Applications. The build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no extra steps. Apple Silicon & Intel; macOS 14+.

Interop & etiquette

The community servers are small, volunteer-run boxes (The Crypt / crypthome.com is a memorial server) — please be a good guest. See the README for the server list.

Not affiliated with Microsoft. Built on Microsoft's open-source Comic Chat release; see CREDITS.md.