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There is also a growing number of "graphical" chat programs. Unlike text chat
rooms, they are based in 2D or 3D worlds which are much easier to move around in. In text
chat rooms, you have to type particular commands to move to a different room, but in
graphical chat rooms you can move simply by clicking in different parts of the room or by
using arrow keys.
And in graphical chat you can adopt an "avatar" or graphical image to represent
yourself and express your personality in the chat rooms. Some of these systems even let
you create custom avatars for various situations (such as a waving avatar to greet someone
who has just logged on and entered the chat room).
MS Comic Chat 2.5 (for Windows/NT) comes on the oceanfree.net CD-Rom. It works within
Internet Explorer and uses comicbook-style characters. Sometimes you may want to switch
between text mode and comic mode for various reasons. If a room is extremely active, it
may be hard to follow a conversation in comic mode. You can switch easily between the two
by selecting the icon on the MS Chat tool bar.
Another popular chat system using avatars is
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