ICQ/OSCAR protocol (version 7,8,9,10)
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This page is © Copyright Rüdiger Kuhlmann, (co)author of mICQ, the portable text based ICQ client. It is similar in spirit to a page by Douglas McLaughlin; a good deal of the data in this database was copied from that page.
If you want to ship your ICQ client with a copy of the static part of this web page (all *.html files), you need to ask me for permission first. This is such a static copy; you cannot set preferences, nor edit the page.
Links to other documentation
- Massimo's v7/v8 notes
- AIM/Oscar protocol information, ZIP
- AIM/Oscar protocol information, sourceforge
- ICQ database spec, ZIP
- Massimo's page, requires JavaScript
- ICQ v7/8 tutorial, in Delphi, in Russian.
Links to clients
- Massimo's v7/v8 notes
- AIM/Oscar protocol information, ZIP
- AIM/Oscar protocol information, sourceforge
- ICQ database spec, ZIP
- Massimo's page, requires JavaScript
- ICQ v7/8 tutorial, in Delphi, in Russian.
| name | version | date | licence | platform | comment | |
| mICQ | 0.5.0.4 | 2005-06-05 | GPL v2 | C | line-based | very portable |
| Jimm | 0.4.3 | 2005-11-18 | GPL | Java | cell phones | |
| GnomeICU | 0.99.5 | 2004-03-28 | GPL | C | Linux (GNOME1/2) | |
| Kopete | 0.10.3 | 2005-08-08 | GPL | C | Linux (KDE3) | |
| alicq | 0.8.9 | 2004-10-14 | GPL | Tcl/Tk | ||
| Miranda | 0.4.0.1 | 2005-06-20 | GPL | C | Win | |
| licq | 1.3.2 | 2005-10-21 | GPL | C++ | Linux (Qt) | |
| Ayttm | 0.4.6-17 | 2004-06-26 | GPL | C | Linux | |
| icyjuice | 1.0d6 | 2004-05-29 | GPL | Obj-C | Mac OS X | |
| centericq | 4.21.0 | 2005-02-09 | GPL | C++ | menu-based | |
| YSM | 2.9.6 | 2003-10-02 | GPL | C | line-based | |
| SIM | 0.9.3 | 2004-??-?? | GPL | C++ | Linux (KDE2/3) | |
| ickle | 0.3.2 | 2002-07-21 | GPL | C++ | Linux (GTK+) | discontinued (?) |
| KXicq2 | 0.7.6 | 2002-01-04 | GPL | C++ | Linux (KDE2/3) | discontinued |
| StrICQ | 2.8.2 | 2002-05-29 | no licence | C++ | AmigaOS (MUI) | disappeared |
| vICQ | 0.4.1 | 2002-04-15 | GPL | Perl | line-based | discontinued |
| everybuddy | 0.4.3 | 2002-07-11 | GPL | C | Linux | disappeared, see Ayttm |
| proteus3 | 3.0.3 | ??? | commercial | C++ | Mac OS X | disappeared |
| &RQ | 0.9.3.9 | ??? | no source | Win | discontinued | |
| SmartICQ | 1.2 | 2003-01-02 | no source | Win | disappeared | |
| Trillian | 3.1 | 2002-09-10 | commercial | Win | incapable of sending type1/4 messages if type-2 fails, broken unicode support | |
| imici | 2.2.5 | 2002-09-27 | commercial | Win/Linux/FreeBSD | requires online registration (which doesn't work), cannot register a new ICQ account | |
The following clients do not support the v8 protocol: gimbicq, gicq, kicq, cicq, eicq, xicq, gtkicq, zicq, icqnix, nicq, icqsend, icqmail, Net::ICQ, MyCQ.
Links to ICQ libraries
| name | version | date | licence | platform | comment |
| ooimlib | 0.3beta1 | 2003-07-29 | LGPL | C++, Java | |
| jcq2k | 1.0.5 | 2003-04-18 | LGPL | Java | |
| xorkeygn.zip | |||||
| TICQClient | 1.21 |