Roger Wilco (software)

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Roger Wilco was one of the first voice-over-IP client programs designed primarily for use with online multiplayer video games. Roger Wilco enables gamers to talk through a headset or other handsfree device instead of typing messages to each other.

Roger and Wilco are procedure words which, in radiophone communication, mean "I understood your message and I will comply".

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Development and release

Roger Wilco was developed by a US startup company called Resounding Technology. Three of the company's four founders were roommates when they were undergraduate students at Princeton University: Adam Frankl, Tony Lovell, and Henri de Marcellus.

The company began publishing pre-release versions of the software in the autumn of 1998; the first general availability release, Roger Wilco Mark I, followed in May 1999. The company distributed both the client and server as freeware. The server software, Roger Wilco Base Station, was developed for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 9x, and Windows NT. Development of a client for Mac OS never progressed beyond the alpha phase.

Mpath Interactive, a startup company in Silicon Valley, acquired Resounding Technology later that year, and renamed it to HearMe, Inc.

In December 2000, GameSpy bought the Roger Wilco intellectual property. In early 2001, they integrated an updated version of the client software into their game server browser, GameSpy Arcade. Players could use the Roger Wilco software if they bought a subscription to GameSpy's Game Tools suite.

GameSpy published the final version of the Roger Wilco client for Windows on July 8, 2003. That year, a vice president of consumer products at GameSpy Industries told The Boston Globe that Roger Wilco had about 5 million users.

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References

Teamspeak Client ~ Software Customer Care

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External links

Official website (archived)

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Roger Wilco (software)

Rabu, 09 Mei 2018