Roareye wrote:That's legendary Windows9X!
I wonder if there's a way to integrate voice chat into the Companion (not soon, but sort of as a long term plan). Playing Phantasy Star Online with people is fantastic but a little lonely, typing on the keyboard can be a pain where voice chat would make it so much better. Obviously implementing it directly through the DC would be nigh on impossible, but using the Companion to connect players might be a great alternative.
It's just an idea, I have no idea about implementation but I am offering to help research stuff. But as it stands I'm spitting out an idea only. It just seems to be a great way to get people chatting online together even in games that don't traditionally support the DC Microphone.
I wish, but sadly it's just not possible. I'm a single entity, not a 'multi-person' company.
Voice chat requires bandwidth and servers; DreamPi has none of that. It's just not possible for >me< and this is why skype, discord, overtone, facebook etc exist; to chat. This is why Nintendo made a phone app for voice chat; Switch is P2P play, not server based in terms of interaction. Some Nintendo games, like Fortnite, have in-game voice, but it's handled by their servers.
Best i could do was add notifications, which i think is a good trade off considering no other service, including the official DreamPi and it's website, contain notifications/following/collection viewing etc.
So, i tried my best to offer up something unique as well as being convenient to desktops among all platforms.
Anyways, i'm finishing up; 'll bundle up the latest builds for each platform and put 1.0 on source forge, after testing.
Author of original DreamPi Companion..