Thunder
| Filename | thunder.hqx |
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Thunder is a Battle.net chat client for the Macintosh by Seth Lowe, distributed through Info-Mac's game tree because it targets Blizzard's online gaming service. It brings the kind of robust chat and bot features long enjoyed by Windows users to Mac players of Diablo, StarCraft, and other Blizzard titles of the era.
A Mac Bot for Battle.net
For most of the late 1990s, the Battle.net chat scene was dominated by Windows 9x bots: clients that did far more than the official Blizzard chat allowed. Thunder is the Mac answer to that imbalance, letting Mac users join the same channels and run the same kinds of automated commands their PC counterparts had taken for granted.
Chat and Command Handling
The client adopts conventions established by the Windows bots, so commands and channel etiquette translate directly. The author's own description highlights that Thunder "allows you to chat and receive commands from users on Blizzard's Battle.net online gaming service" - the receive-commands part being the bot side of its personality.
Why It Lives in the Game Tree
Thunder is not a game itself; it is a companion utility for online play. It is filed under Info-Mac's game directory because its entire reason for existing is the Battle.net ecosystem around Blizzard's titles, and it would be useless to anyone outside that community.
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