RSSAOL 6.0 Surfaces
By Aaron Dobbins | Published May 26, 2000, 5:35 PM
Somewhere at some point, a copy of AOL 6.0 popped up on the Internet. Days later the next version of the Internet giant's flagship software was all over the net. AOL confirmed today that copies of AOL Version 6.0 have surfaced, and were being served up by several site including Techpages.com.A teenager referred to as Kenton posted screenshots and a download link to the alpha version of the software this morning, although if you are running Windows 2000 you will not be able to run the install. The 7.56 MB download is officially titled "America Online 6.0 Beta version 190.28d 56bit K2," K2 being the AOL codename for the project. More to come as the story develops. BetaNews will bring you a full review in coming days.
I made a cool web page about aol6 and gamera (aol linux). You can access it at http://32983292349839@3626019341/writing/aol6/new.html Enjoy
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|Does anyone have the latest AIM STAFF VERSION (i have 1.75.563) or know where I can find it. You can email me at jammanxc@hotpop.com. The latest staff version is too buggy. Thanks.
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|dont waste your time, the staff version is over 2 years old, and the newest version of aim has all the features of staff aim, but it doesnt leak memory.
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|aol6 is alpha, not beta. the reason aol6 got released was because theyve started holding aol6 in there beta library. the aol6 beta area is done, but it is not posted for beta testers. aol6 will reach beta within 2 weeeks. again, to download aol6 go to http://32983292349839@3626019341/writing/aol6/images/aol6.zip thanks, viowatch
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|Ive made a form using VPD of all of aol's secret area's. This includes access to aol's file library 1 and 2, every aol betacentral, international RM sites, and more. If you want to download aol6, or view the aol6 beta area go to http://32983292349839@3626019341/writing/aol6/images/aol6.zip. Also, i know about something no one else does, aol is making a linux client called gamera, its in my beta form under other. Right now only internals on the aol lan can test it, but you can at least read about it, interesting stuff! Just go to http://32983292349839@3626019341/writing/aol6/images/aol6.zip viowatch
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|Man, this thing viowatch made kicks ass! it does exactly what he says it does, & more. it jus' kicks ass! Damn good work man!
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|Does anyone know where to get a beta version? That alpha version was way to bugridden... even for aol. Hell, i couldn't even use the buddy list or ims! it kept causing stack overflows, even when not running, & i was forced to uninstall it.
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|There isn't a beta version yet. If there is, then they haven't let their testers know.
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|LOL, I agree with you. Aol in my opinion is one of the worst ISP's I have encountered. Yes, some people like the "Instant Message" and the chat rooms but you can get all that for free by Down loading AIM. If your a newbie to the internet you might get AOL. But if your a more advance internet user you will relize AOL just plain sucks.
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|Bless you.
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|I see that AOL has brought out a unpublic version of there new beta 6.0 but what about the official beta testers that signed up to get this software officially? Also I wouldn't download AOL 6.0 from that site because from being a beta tester, AOL can track which users use what version of their software. Meaning that if you sign on with AOL 6.0, AOL knows it and may stop people from using it very soon.
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|Hmm.. lets see, AOL is the biggest internet provider in the world, and has millions of users. So I guess the answer is one hell of a lot.
But don't forget, AOL is aimed at beginners, so people (including most people who would even be interested in beta software) who have an intermediate skill (or more) would probably dislike the lack of advanced tools.
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|haha, stop trying to sound smart. You obviously don't know anything
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|is there anyway to stop the memory leak in AOL's current AOLIM??? I am forced to use it for business and I can't run it for 10min before my memory is sucked dry. Then I gotta reboot, it sux. I wish everyone had ICQ99, life would be much easier. (I hate AOL and ICQ2000a. All copies should be destroied)
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|Download the old aim version 2.1.1271. I use it and refuse to upgrade from it. It's rock solid in stability, doesn't have all kinds of stupid "talk" s***, but you can still do buddy chat rooms if you want:
ftp://ftp.atthat.com/pub/AIM_2_1_1271.exe
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|It's not a 7.56 MB download. It's 35.5 MB.
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|It still uses IE for the internet. And it works with WinME RC1.
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|The instant messenging software built into it is still light years behind AIM. It looks slightly better, but I don't see any adavantages to it over AOL 4 or 5.
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|Part of AOL 6 is directly from AIM. I tried signing on w/ AOL -- w/ a name that is the same for AOL and AIM -- and AIM kept signing me off and saying that I was trying to sign on w/ another client of AIM. It has lots of bugs too (AOL 6 in general) but what can you expect from an alpha test?
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|Anyone know of any other mirrors? This one is very slow, like .6K. Note: The usual AOL program is now around 12megs. This one is 7.5 and its beta... well probably Alpha. Betas usually are larger then the final product.
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|7.5 megs? I downloaded 35.59 megs to get my AOL 6. I think i got jipped. At least i got a decent download speed.
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|Well more then likely the reason the DL was so large was for the MSIE install. Currently AOL 6.0 will want to install MSIE 5.01 128-Bit SSL.
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|hey Aaron, we're just wondering over here why someone with brains enough to use windows 2000 would want to install any bloated spamware from aol
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|Well actually I was installing it so I could write about it and give you all some screenshots (those that hate AOL and would never use it) of what it looks like. So I went to install it after the download (the first link on that site is MUCH faster than the second mirror site) and a prompt told me it was not compatable with my current version of Windows. Oh well, I have another box that I never use to put it on.
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|More then likely the reason that version didn't install is because the origional mirror site downloaded the version for WIn9X. Trust me when I say there is a version of AOL 6.0 for both Win NT and Win 2K.
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|When someone downloads this can they please let us know if it's based on IE (5.5) or Mozilla?
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|This build is based on IE.
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|aol6.0 uses IE5.5, is roughly 42 megs, final release runs on WIN9x/NT/2000 (all one release)aolk29xnt2000
ready in august? and by the way, why dont you guys have any news on aoltv? whats all this "we need two articles for 6.0"? or maybe no one has leaked aoltv....gofigure
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