See the details in our Apple Retail Report . While portions of previous reports stand, sources report that the latest prerelease of the client software has undergone some major revisions, and in the processes gained a number of features. Threaded News Gets Integrated One of the long awaited features of Hotline 1.5 will be threaded news, in message board form. Previously Hotline Communications had been seeding the hotline client and threaded news as separate components, or Mac OS applications. Within each category, users will be able to post individual messages and responses.
Users only download the category listings and messages they want viewer.
Each message opens in its own individual window and is date and time stamped at the instant the user posts the message to the server. We anticipate that in time the threaded news client will allow backwards compatibility with servers running less than version 1.5. According to sources, Hotline 1.5 also boasts a number of handy chat features such as improved general chat, and private messaging. As each user logs into a server, the new version of hotline will display their nickname and time of login in the chat screen, similar to internet rely chat, one source said. The feature can also be deactivated at the users preference.