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Chicken of the VNC - 2.0b1

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All Time:	(3.6)
Version 2.0b1:	(2.0)
Selected Version:	2.0b1
Release Date:	2004-08-18
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 2.0b1):	2,699
Downloads (all versions):	203,655

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Product Description:

Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.

Chicken features CPU performance throttling; Rendezvous server discovery; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.

This program is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!

What's new in this version:

New connection manager that stores commonly used servers.
Auto-discovery of servers via Rendezvous.
Added keychain support.
Added support for keyboard commands when connection windows are not the frontmost windows.
Added support for customizable menu key equivalents.
Clarified menus. rearranged them, and made them more "Mac-like".
Drastically improved documentation.
Added timers for mouse button emulation that help prevent accidental emulation.
Added ability to specify connection options from the command line.
Shift-Tab now works properly on Windows machines.
Capslock now works on Windows machines.
Resolved errors when connection to RealVNC using ZLibHex encoding.
Resolved errors when connecting to OSXVNC using Tight encoding.
Miscellaneous other encoding fixes.
Tight encoding is no longer the default encoding.
Widened "Port (or Display)" text field so it can hold 5 digits.
Port numbers below 100 are now interpreted as a display number, instead of numbers below 10.
Mouse tracking no longer breaks after exiting from full-screen mode.
Resolved an issue that could cause Chicken to crash if the server connection unexpectedly died.
When a server connection dies, Chicken now notifies the user with a sheet so that the user can see which connection it was.
Removed the "Quit" option from the notification presented when a server has died.
Changed release date in "About Chicken of the VNC" for 1.3.6 to properly reflect the year 2003.
New VNC graphics in About dialog by Tobia Conforto tobix@linux.it

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0b1:
Overall Rating:	(2.0)	Features:	(4.2)	Support:	(2.2)
Ease of Use:	(2.8)	Quality / Stability:	(2.2)	Price:	(5.0)

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chicken of the vnc - Version: 2.0b4, 6/3/2008 08:08AM PST

johnallen

I have been using Chicken of the VNC for a year or so now. Works great.

I just read about a faster VNC client - JollysFastVNC 0.96.30 and in the few minutes I have been using it, it is faster than Chicken.

Works great for me - Version: 2.0b4, 5/30/2008 11:29AM PST

iMacMike

This is the best FREE VNC client I've tried. I'm connecting from an iMac Duo Core running Leopard 10.5.2 to 4 WinXP computers running the free version of RealVNC Server 4.1.2 thru a Cisco VPN tunnel and cable internet. I can connect to all 4 remote servers simultaniously too! This works much better than Remote Desktop Connection.

When will the bugs be fixed, when will be release the new version (if any)? - Version: 2.0b4, 11/9/2007 07:11AM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

Christian Gras

Many bugs have been pointed out (see forum) and still no new version. The current Chicken of the VNC is still 2.0b4 and is 2 years old.
Does it mean that this program is not maintained any more?
For me the most important bug is the keyboard problem:
For non-US keyboard, the mapping is completely messy.