Project - Rival Messenger
Rival was a long running project, written in VB. It spanned 5 versions and had quite a lot of public success. Started January 2001, it was one of few Jabber clients at the time.
It was one of my first serious development endeavors that had interaction with other developers. At that time, the Jabber community was a very fun and exciting place to be. So Rival development was very quick paced, with a lot of functionality added on a daily basis.
I stopped working on Rival when I made the transition to Mac. I think eventually I will pick it up again as it was a unique user experience, something that hasnt been introduced to OS X yet.
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I havent tested the status of these installers.