Portable X-Chat Aqua is the X-Chat Aqua IRC client packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 5 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, server list, preferences and plugins with you.



Download:

• PortableX-ChatAqua_0.16.0_r2.1.dmg (2.9M) U

Old release:

 

• PortableX-ChatAqua_0.15.2_r1.0.dmg (1.5M) PPC
• PortableX-ChatAqua_0.15.2-Intel_r1.0.dmg (1.1M) Intel only
  

How to install

1. Drag "Portable X-Chat Aqua" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 5 MB of free space.

2. Clicking "Portable X-Chat Aqua" will open Portable X-Chat Aqua from your portable device, wait a while before X-ChatAqua start.

3. If a local copy of X-Chat Aqua is running an alert window allow you to quit it.

Using your data

You can copy your user preferences to Portable Audacity when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your preferences you already have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompt.

X-Chat Aqua application, preference file, folder and plugins are inside the bundle:
Portable X-Chat Aqua.app/Contents/Resources/app/

Know issue

Configure Download Folder path of DCC Settings in Preferences as "~/.xchat2/downloads"; be sure to have enough space on your portable drive or choose another folder.

Portable X-Chat Aqua is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus

Support Forum

Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum

Script code

• Portable X-Chat Aqua script source code page.

Change log

• 0.16.0 r2.1 (Feb 09, 2010)

• X-Chat Aqua updated to 0.16.0
• Fixed "Read-Only Volume:" check on OS X 10.6

• 0.15.2 Intel r1.0 (May 27, 2006)
  • Intel release with this binary.
    
• 0.15.2 r1.0 (May 26, 2006)
  
  • First public release.
  • 100% standalone.
  • Preference are automatically copied if desired.
  • Portable X-Chat Aqua ask to quit X-Chat Aqua copy already running.

Donations

• Donations page

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Portable X-Chat Aqua © 2006
Carlo Gandolfi - http://www.freesmug.org
Paolo Portaluri - http://plus2.it/~paolo/

This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.

X-Chat Aqua provided is an unmodified version of official binaries downloaded from xchataqua.sourceforge.net licensed under:
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991