Want a Y!Messenger Counterpart? Try GYACHI!

It’s been difficult not having a Yahoo! Messenger counterpart because most of my contacts, including my mom, are always using Y!M. It’s not easy to communicate if I can’t even do voice and video chats with her. I forgot all about GYACHI until I read this blog entry about how to install GYACHI on Ubuntu.

you could have voice and video with Y!M contacts using GYACHI!

So far, the webcam on my Acer Aspire One works well with it. I tested with one of my co-workers this morning. But — here are some things I have to figure out first:

• The voice chat. It’s been looking for a tsd32.dll and tssoft32.acm. A guide says that I need to copy those files from Windows machines. Hrmm. I wonder if it doesn’t matter which Windows version it is. Must get to a Windows machine first!
• Sending Audibles seems to make it hang. I don’t know if it’s just on my machine though. But I ended up killing the GYACHI process. I don’t mind not having audibles. Oh well.

Other cutesy stuff:

• There are environments but they don’t seem to be animated, compared to the Windows ones.
• The emoticons are the Y! emoticons. Really fun to use with friends.
• You could see who’s logged in but are in the invisible state. I am not sure how GYACHI does it but it’s like that.

If you’ve never tried GYACHI, then maybe it’s about time.