ICQ

Roger Wilco

GameSpy GameSpy

Bigfoot E-mail

Required Items :

ICQ:
(required)
Before you apply to our Club you will be required to download ICQ (a 4Mb FREE download). There are 2 versions of ICQ , "ICQ Lite" (1.7MB) and "ICQ Pro" (3.8MB), you can use either. We use ICQ to send instant text messages when needed. It will let you know when other players are "online". You will get your very own FREE "ICQ number".  It's also our text backup to Roger Wilco. Its great for leaving individual text messages for people when they are not online, we use email for long or important text messages, but ICQ is faster for short text messages. If you want more info on what is ICQ, just go to the What is ICQ, Changing your ICQ Nickname, ICQ Help web pages.


Roger Wilco:
(required)
Before you apply to our Club you will be required to download Roger Wilco . The latest version of Roger Wilco is "Roger Wilco Mark 1D rev3" (763KB). It's a FREE download, it takes less than a few minutes to download at 56k. If that link is down, try this [TiC] Clan sponsored  Roger Wilco download Roger Wilco Mark 1c backup site#2 (older version, 360KB). In 15 minutes you can have it downloaded, installed, tweaked, and be talking on it.

The the older versions of Roger Wilco required registration, but the newest one (RW Mark1c or later) does not ("RW" = Roger Wilco). You do NOT need to buy the registered version of Roger Wilco, the shareware version works okay. All you need is a computer (that is connected to the internet) that has a sound card, a microphone, and speakers (or a headset). If you do NOT have a mic yet, you can still listen. Spend some time testing your mic volume setting, before joining a RW channel. "Mic-headset combos" are highly recommended. You can usually purchase a good quality headset for about $25 or less (a Labtec Axis-502  mic-headset cost $25 U.S. at "Best Buys" or "CompUSA" computer stores.  Plantronics headsets are good and they have some for around 25$ too.)

There are only two RW menu buttons you need to know, the CREATE button makes a channel (give this IP number to other players so they can JOIN your RW channel) and the JOIN button (put in the IP provided to you by other players). It's that simple. Get the latest soundcard tips & software drivers for your sound card if you have any problems with your Roger Wilco. Go to the Roger Wilco Trouble Shooting Page if you still need help. If you still have problems email us and we will gladly help you get it going.

Other Neat Stuff :

GameSpy:
(optional)

You MAY find that downloading GameSpy3D (a 1.9MB FREE trial download) (SCROLL down to the TRIAL version on that page) might be REALLY handy. You can use it to MAGICALLY FIND which game servers your "buddies" / "mates" are playing on. See our [TiC]Clan GameSpy Tab page for more GameSpy related items.

Game Name Email:
(optional, unless you have a "clan job")

You may like to get a FREE Game Name EMAIL account at BIGFOOT.com . It can be setup to AUTOMATICALLY forward your "Game Name Email" to your real email account (NO WEB logon needed). You can set it up to use your "Game Name " and not your real name (example: evil@ticclan.com ).

Again this is optional, but if you want to  get a "game name email" account you might want to look at  at the "web based free email accounts" at Hotmail or Yahoo instead.

For a complete list of more GREAT FREE STUFF, go to our LINKs Page.

This page was originally created 11-25-99 as part of the JOIN Page. Last updated 04/17/03.