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This really brought some nostalgic tears in my eyes. I asked Fable to create a Mac port this weekend: - https://github.com/TimBroddin/comic-chat-macos - Write-up: https://broddin.be/bringing-microsoft-comic-chat-to-the-mac-using-fable/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 783215264, "item_id": 48950954, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950954", "by": "psawaya", "date": "2026-07-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Great idea. Got it running on the web.", "excerpt": "Great idea. Got it running on the web. 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I have a vivid memory of my sister and my mom in Puerto Rico, on our packardbell computer, hearing it making dial-up noises for days or hour", "context": "", "use_case": "IRC chat client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 782987984, "item_id": 48936749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936749", "by": "superkuh", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC.", "excerpt": "Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC. I was just a kid poking around in system32 directory and found mschat.exe. It opened a whole new world. I still participate in IRC communities to this day. I regularly reference it. 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This really brought some nostalgic tears in my eyes. I asked Fable to create a Mac port this weekend: - https://github.com/TimBroddin/comic-chat-macos - Write-up: https://broddin.be/bringing-microsoft-comic-chat-to-the-mac-using-fable/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 783215264, "item_id": 48950954, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950954", "by": "psawaya", "date": "2026-07-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Great idea. Got it running on the web.", "excerpt": "Great idea. Got it running on the web. Come hang :) https://chat.elsewhere.zone/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 783034672, "item_id": 48939667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939667", "by": "outintospace", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it to create a presentation for my talk at a conference last year.", "excerpt": "I used it to create a presentation for my talk at a conference last year. https://standefer.com/agent-platform-comic/about.html", "context": "", "use_case": "creating a conference presentation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 783009760, "item_id": 48938110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938110", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is exciting for me, I will definitely be downloading and perusing the code", "excerpt": "...for years I've talked about this program here on HN! This is exciting for me, I will definitely be downloading and perusing the code when I get back home from vacation. Thank you to the original developers, and to the current team at Microsoft that made this release possible! I have a vivid memory of my sister and my mom in Puerto Rico, on our packardbell computer, hearing it making dial-up noises for days or hour", "context": "", "use_case": "IRC chat client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 782987984, "item_id": 48936749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936749", "by": "superkuh", "date": "2026-07-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC.", "excerpt": "Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC. I was just a kid poking around in system32 directory and found mschat.exe. It opened a whole new world. I still participate in IRC communities to this day. I regularly reference it. So it's a shame that microsoft is blocking non-corporate browsers from accessing this news release, \"The request is blocked. 20260716T162640Z-r17d8486fc4rbjkdhC1CHI16pc00000008m000000", "context": "", "use_case": "IRC chatting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"}, {"id": 745771344, "item_id": 46610709, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610709", "by": "nntwozz", "date": "2026-01-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Microsoft Comic Chat was the gateway drug that got me into IRC as a kid", "excerpt": "Microsoft Comic Chat was the gateway drug that got me into IRC as a kid, only later did I realize it was IRC and I switched to mIRC.", "context": "", "use_case": "IRC chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)"}]}