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Hi, guys amazing program! I've used it for a bit but only recently has it started to crash every time it gets past the dial-up screen. I've tried recompiling it but it still crashes, is there a crash report this program makes or is it just broken?

Certain emails from companies like surf are completely blank. Any fixes?

For the channels I know the Kids Only section is the only one working. However, I came up with a solution for the other buttons to work. I added some things in the channels.cs and channels.designer.cs files. I was able to get the other buttons to go to websites relevant to those topics. I understand you would rather use a htm file like you had with the kids one but at least with the code I have you can get a head start with it and I also understand you mentioned in your youtube videos that this program is not associated with AOL in any way but I do have some from the AOL website because some things you can browse on their without being signed in. The 2 photos show my example with the Sports channel. The 2 text files are what I have added to the 2 cs files under the forms folder.
channels.designer.txt


channels.txt

I found out about this software due to a 2-year-long bump, However, it requires .NET 4.6.1, however, the last version for vista is 4.6, this means i'm one revision off from using this app.

Although, the solution for most people is "Dude, go update to Windows 7/8.1/10", i don't really want to update to those OSes are they're overrated.

I am not sure on what's the difference between 4.6 and 4.6.1, likely just a rebranded 4.6 to make some apps uncompatible with Vista.

Here is what the preferences menu needs to look like:

Can be opened with the master aol DB entry ID: 32-278

Preference button images:
passwords: 1-1-22461
www: 1-1-22459
spelling: 1-1-22458
font: 1-1-22456
general: 1-1-22455
graphics: 1-1-22454
language: 1-1-22453
mail: 1-1-22451
personal filing cabinet: 1-1-22447
chat: 1-1-22443
download: 1-1-22435
marketing: 1-1-27357

There's supposed to be a splash image upon startup.

When you click on toolbar images, they are supposed to change to a glow image. These are stored in the main db file. (main.idx) http://www.koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/dbview/

read mail (got mail): 1-1-25318
read mail (no mail): 1-1-25321
perks: 1-1-39192
quotes: 1-1-30988
weather: 1-1-30991
favorites: 1-1-25649
mail center: 1-1-25648
write: 1-1-25647
people: 1-1-25320
print: 1-1-25319
my files: 1-1-25317
my aol: 1-1-25316
internet: 1-1-25315
channels: 1-1-25298

The upper right hand corner icon is very low res. Even if the initial image could get higher quality, that would help. The loading animation is good enough.

Do the accounts work on a database or is it stored local to PC?

Double check that the you've got mail icon stays lit up when you have new email and check for other related minor bugs.

Using the proper IRC client quit function seems to take a very long time to quit.

os: win10
I have supplied a screenshot.

When writing emails I can type text and web links but cannot include images and the attachments button does nothing and I sent myself an email with an image in it. I opened it and the text shows but not the image.

https://imgur.com/a/RpBQOfp

Depends what system we end up going with. If we go with IRC, this should be simple.

This window opens when you click on the Welcome Chat icon.

Download and Install AOL 4.0: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/america-online-4-0 (backup link)

To install on Windows 10, click Existing Member > Creating an additional AOL account on this computer

Download dbview program and unzip: http://www.koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/dbview/ (backup link)

Open dbview program and open the main.idx file. Located in C:/America Online 4.0/

Teal boxes with text = Image resources
Dark blue tilde = Form code
Green circle = Hex code

I'm going to make a server that can handle accounts, emails, small apps, etc. with a rest API.

Hi.
I have Windows 10. When I try to create an account, I keep getting "account creation failed for unknown reason. Please contact [email protected]." Not sure what would cause this.

Running PiHole and having api.ipstack.com blocked causes a crash after the welcome screen appears.

Looks like the issue is probably here:

Make accounts able to sign in to their own accounts.

The error message occurs when trying to browse to a URL.

Even though CefSharp.Core.dll is present in the executable's directory, the error means it's having a problem opening the library.

The problem is, the library requires the VC++ 2015 Redistributable. After installing the x64 or x86 redistributable, it should start working.

Windows 32-bit -> vc_redist.x86.exe
Windows 64-bit -> vc_redist.x64.exe

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685

I need to add channels. I plan on making small HTML pages on aolemu.com to emulate them. They seem to be VERY small in height/width.

Some of the art assets are stored in the official aol db main (main.idx) file. I believe the finance section and kids section I've seen in there. http://www.koin.org/files/aol.aim/aol/dbview/

DB entries start at 1-1-28854 ends at 1-1-28933

If anyone has any features they would like to see, PLEASE let me know!

Build 2022-03-01T19:11:09.0000000Z

AOL welcome window (left icons) email, photo's and chat links aren't right.
mail center, does nothing
you've got pictures goes to email inbox
AOL channels goes to email inbox
Chat goes to aol pictures and get's stuck under the address bar.

those are the bugs I've found so far. Still can't chat or get weather.

Windows version 20H2, OS build - 19042.1526

Gives an SQL Lite DB error. This happens on both the self compiled and user compiled versions.

I wish I could get this project to be cross platform onto systems like MacOS and Linux, but Wine doesn't work well with x64 architectures. Most other languages don't have MDI (Multi-Document Interface) support. Not even Microsoft's own XAML or Maui have it, just WinForms. I know Java Swing supports MDI, but I'm very green to Java and I don't think I could completely re-design the form layouts to look closer to Windows 95 like we have now. Unless everyone would agree that we don't need the older style title bars.

NOTE: I was able to run the latest build of WineSkin to wrap it into a native executable, but it had some crash errors. I'll have to debug this later and see if I can get it working! :)

Needs to be removed:

Make a key word system to call up forms (windows).

When chatting to a buddy via IM, the program will work for a few minutes before randomly freezing and crashing. There's also no notification of any kind when a buddy messages you, and if your IM chat with them isn't open when they send it, their message won't be visible to you at all.

I'm unsure of what certain windows looked like or did when they were open. If anyone has video or screenshots of these, that would help tremendously!

This looks like a nice project to implement: https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovJqk-q71c

Chat still isn't finished. Still has lots of features missing.

I downloaded the live accounts release but nearly every time I click it freezes and it starts up very slowly.

I have email in my email box and it keeps crashing when I go to check it. Anyway to resolve this??

Thank you much

i am using the aol emu email ([email protected]) and when i send an email to my address from another email (example: gmail) it takes a long time to recieve the email, why is this? however the speed to send them from the aol emu is fine.

istarian on reddit:

A good place to look might be the sourcecode to some AOL IM clients. naim, which was a command line client and miranda im (the old one, not miranda-ng) might be a good place to take a peek. I couldn't get the latter to work with the server mentioned, but miranda connects just fine if you read the directions on the phoenix im forums/site? about a couple of settings that need adjusting.

It's not like it's got much happening but it is a real server that exists.

I mean you can always just make your own basic chat server and just provide an AOL like look on the client side, but there's nothing like a genuine experience.

P.S.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/dottoc/
^ here's a .NET library, no idea if i's functional though.

In my opinion, the titlebars aren't yet accurate to the classic theme. It also does not respect system colors. The skinned titlebars are quite useless to me since i already have the classic theme.

Show history of downloads, and display downloads currently available in the downloads folder.

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AAC
Access
Add2Cal
Ages
AH
Anywhere
AOL Book Shop
AOL Plus
AOL Tips
AOLTV
Autos
Best of AOL
Billing
Bistro
Blockbuster
Bookstore
Buddy List
VuddyView
Business News
Calendar
Call AOL
CBS News
CDN Smileys
Channels
Chic Simple
Click and Go
CNET
Computer Center
Computing Communities
Courses
Customer Service
Daily Download
defined
Destinations
Dictionary
Digital City
Download Center
Download Manager
Easy Designer
Email Finder
Ent News
Entertainment
Family Net
FastFacts
File Search
Fools
Friend
Game Shows
Games
Gay
Get Help Now
Global Meeting
going directly to
Groups@AOL
GS
GS Soccer
Guarantee
Hardware
Health
Help
Help Class
Help Community
High Speed
Hometown
House & Home
How to Download
Insider Savings
Instant Messenger
Intl Cultures
Intl News
Intl Travel
Invitations
Junk Mail
Keyword
Kids Only
KO
KO Help
LD Member
Leadeers
Lesbian
Life News
Live
Local Guide
Local News
Long Distance
Mail Controls
Member Opinions
Members
MNC
MO
Money Basics
Movefone
Movies
Music
My Boards
Neighborhood Watch
Netmarket
New
News Search
Newsgroup Scoop
Newsgroups
Notify AOL
number of
Online Learning
Oxygen
Parental Controls
Parenting
Parlor
Password
PC
People Connection
Peteersons
Photo Developer
Photo News
Pictures
Politics
PS
Quick Checkout
QuickStart
Real Estate
Reminder
Rewards
Roots
Savings Clubs
Scoreboard
Screen Names
searching for
searching list of
Send Page
Set My Place
Shop Direct
Shopping
Shopping Customer Service
SoftwareBuys
Speak Out
Teens
Thrive
Today in Health
TOS
Travel
Travelers Advantage
UCAOL
Upgrade Shops
US World
Virus
Virus Info
Visa
Weather
where to type
Web Page
White Pages
Women
Xtreme
Yellow Pages
TGP Help
You've Got Pictures

Here's how the latest Build 2022-01-31T21:14:32.0000000Z looks on my windows 10 pc.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Most Windows have the top bar oversized, cutting off buttons in the process. It makes for closing windows I open to be very hard, if not impossible to close. Included is a screenshot. I'm also using the latest build available

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfPMAoXEJ4Q

I could only find 1 real dial up example. Tons of fakes on YouTube.

no matter what i do, a few moments after logging in the program crashes without warning, i included a scuffed video in order to show what's happening.

I am using windows 10 and the latest version of AOL Emu. am i doing something wrong or is this a bug?

This is not an issue it’s more of a question. If we wanted to access for instance [email protected] on a third party application (like Outlook, Thunderbird, Spark or the Mail app on Windows 10) is that possible? Just out of curiosity.

Needs an update system for anyone who downloads pre-compiled versions.

Are you guys having problems with the email servers on your end? Because I am having trouble with the email. It was working yesterday but today I am getting this error in the screenshot called "Connection to Email Server Failed".