| 2006 | 2006 |
| July | Microsoft has finally went and removed the download files of the Comic Chat program from their download server. Therefore the links to download the program on Mermy's download page have been updated to reflect sourcing from the Phoenix-Online website. Enjoy! :-) |
| May | Kei-Nya's much loved Comic Chat characters have been restored to auto-download status on mermeliz.net: Four other download pages have also been restored. They are: IseShima Kirou-Ran Prince Alucard MissDipsy |
| February | Joey of the Comic-Reach Team has created a very usefull utility for controlling the Comic Chat program settings through a control panel. He calls it 'Microsoft® Chat 2.5 Information' v 1.1. Joey also provides a link to Microsoft .net Framework 1.1 which is a requirement for his program to function properly. For more information and download, click here: http://cchattool.endofinternet.net/
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| January | Happy New Year! Let's all pray for world wide peace! |
| 2005 | 2005 |
| December |
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
WANTED: Code Geek or Geekette who can make a control panel for a 16 bit commandline program which will allow it to function in a Windows XP environment. |
| November |
..23rd ..QDKathy has passed away and will be sorely missed. Visit: An Icon is Gone :((( |
| October |
Happy Halloween
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| July |
..A Japanese version of the MP3 Comic Chat exe file was added to the WinXP MP3 help/download page. ..Kaori recently got married and has not had the time that she would like to maintain her web site. Therefore she recently contacted Mermy through Stussy, (of ComichaStation), requesting that her site be mirrored on mermeliz.net. ..Kathy from the Comic-Reach Servers recently had a lightning strike and will be down for a while. The 'Reach' Server connections are still active and online! ..Mr.Fantas Founder of the 'Toonas Servers,' closed his servers and is moving on to other real life adventures. NOTE: Toonas was connected together with 4 servers. Mr.Fantas had 2 of them which are now closed. The other 2 servers are still online and active. Therefore Toonas is still operating! |
| January |
..Claire's (aka Clarisssa) Comic Chat characters (86) have been restored on Mermaid Elizabeth's Aqua World (mermeliz.net). ..Takobou's Comic Chat characters (54) have also been restored on mermeliz.net. ..Happy New Year! It is Mermy's wish that this is the year all of her web page visitors find Love, Peace, Joy, and the Lord in their lives! ..Moved the games that were newly added to the 'Cool Programs Page' over to the 'Fun Pages'. ..Also Added a 'Super Mario' Game to the 'Fun Pages' along with an amazing word puzzle. |
| 2004 | 2004 |
| December |
..Message Board has been restored! ..WindowsXP issues are addressed in a new  WindowsXP Help Section. Topics currently covered are: 1. Playing MP3 files in Comic Chat. 2. How to restore the mic:// prefix as an HTML Protocol after WinXP Service Pack 2. 3. How to install and use the Comic Chat Character Editor with WindowsXP...Phoenix-Online web site was moved to mermeliz.net as per Francine's, ( MetaJoy ), request. All content nowauto downloads from the new host site!..18 New Christmas backgrounds can be downloaded from Phoenix's Holiday Background Page...Mermy has used her time at home recovering from surgery to complete re-coloring mermeliz.com page theme.She owes thanks to the freeware program DeKnop formaking all of the new gradient graphics possible!..ChatCheck's web page also got a face lift thanks a freeware BOX making program called Scott's Box Shot Maker( Although Mermy doesn't care for the LAME! icon for the program so shereplaced it on her desktop with her own selected 'box' icon )...Cool Programs Page has 6 new freeware programs available for downloading. Some of the new programs include an awesomeCD/DVD burner program, a calender making program,and a couple of games. Mermy also added a download libraryfor the Visual Basic RunTime Libraries!..12th ..Updated the color and graphics scheme to this web site! ..Added 5 new programs to download from the Cool Programs Page.
..A VB Driver download section was also added to the Cool Programs Page.
..Phoenix-Online web site was moved to mermeliz.net as per Francine's, (MetaJoy), request |
| June |
..5th ..Updated the comic Characters Link Page as well as 'Chat Check's' search control file.
..Added 2 new links to the Character Download Page.
..Added a link to Sniffle's FAQ page to mermeliz.com main page. |
| May |
..2nd ..Updated the comic Characters Link Page as well as 'Chat Check's' search control file.
..Once again the best website for downloading Comic Chat characters and backgrounds, (Phoenix On-Line Foundation's Character Nexus), has gone off line. For now the status of this loss is unknown :-( ...The last time they were offline on 4 Feb 04, it was due to a server error.
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| March |
..22nd ..Added a freeware archiver program that handles all the major formats. Called 'Power Archiver 6.11', this program can be downloaded on the 'Cool Programs' page...Deleted the link to WinZip on the 'Cool Programs' page after adding the free 'Power Archiver' program. ..14th ..ChatCheck's control file update was completed this last weekend. It will once again skip over the dead web sites and go to good downloading sites for comic chat characters. |
| February |
..29th ..Unipeg's characters are restored and now available on mermeliz.net..Chibi_Lee's characters were also restored there. (Check the character link page here on this site for the links). ..20th ..MissBanji's new web site has been added to the Character's Link Page ..12th ..PizzaCat from Japan, has sent Mermy the last missing character that she needed to fully restore Momomo's Mirrored Site. The missing character was 2Chcat.avb. Upon receiving it, Mermy posted it on the mirror site on mermeliz.net. This makes the site complete. -- Thank you, PizzaCat! -- ..10th ..Phoenix-Online Foundation's website discovered they had a server error and are back online with their domain name. The good news out of this is that the characters that once auto downloaded from there will once again work. The bad news is that as Mermy was restoring the characters, she found 286 of the 633 that download from their web pages, do not auto download within the Comic Chat program. They were all 100% repaired under the new address, but since it is all now back to the 'pre-domain-loss' status, they once again will not auto download. :-((( ..4th ..Found the Phoenix-Online Foundation's new web url. It appears as if they lost the domain name for the moment. Although the web content is still available, the Comic Chat characters will not auto download unless they reactivate their domain name. This also includes all of the .BGB backgrounds. Phoenix's old url was http://www.phoenix-online.org/ It is now http://www.qouest.net/~phoenix/#characters until otherwise discovered. ..1st ..Restored the 'original' Comic Chat color replacement .AVB's. The 'restoration' includes a working auto-download url as well as restoration of the 'author' and 'copyright' information. All 22 characters can be found HERE: |
| January |
..15th ..Completed posting the download pages for Whiteswan's restored characters. All 90 of the restored comic characters are now accessable on Mermeliz.net. ..11th ..Whiteswan's Characters have been restored on Mermeliz.net. 90 of her 145 characters are posted on these pages. Currently only 12 of them are accessable via a webpage download. More pages will be added as Mermy finishes creating them. ..4th ..Happy New Year, everyone! ..Added HTML code for creating gradient backgrounds using HTML code alone on the HTML Tidbits Page. |
| 2003 | 2003 |
| December |
..21st ..Momomo's character download site has been 'mirrored' onto Mermeliz.net. All Momomo character lovers can get repaired/working characters from this mirrored resource. Momomo has emailed Mermaid Elizabeth and states that he is buried in school studies and has not been able to repair his own site. Mermaid is missing 1 of his characters in order to make it a total mirrored site. The missing character is: 2chcat.AVB. If anyone has this character, please email it to Mermy so she can complete the website. Thank you! (We were missing 5 characters, originally, but our Aussie friend, Joey, sent Mermy '2Chcat2' and '2Chcat3'. Kewpie sent Lineage_Prince_Man and Dettin, so we're down to 1 left to find. Thanks Joey and Kewpie both! :) |
| September |
..13th ..Added a freeware file splitting program, FineSplit, and a better Microsoft Agent .ACS file previewer, AgAnims, to the 'Cool Programs' page. ..7th ..Updated 'Sounds Link Page' as well as the 'Character's Link Page'. ..Added 'DarkEyes' Restored Download Page to ChatCheck as well as an updated page for 'Nifty's CharaCHAT' characters. (CharaCHAT's .AVB files have not auto downloaded for years. Mermy hexed them to update the autodownload url in them). ..For Those of you who do not know, The APCOMPAT.EXE program posted on the Character Editor/WinXP page can be used on any program that will not otherwise work in WinXP ..Just follow the same procedure as outlined on the Editor/WinXP Help Page. Use the navagational buttons located in the left hand column. ..Mermy recently read a review of her website where the author was giving her the credit for creating the mermaid character, 'MMD.AVB,' that she uses in Comic Chat. This character was originally created by a Japanese artist named 'ToyPoodle' in November of 1997. Mermy has adopted her since her creation, but does not claim any ownership of the .AVB file. See more of ToyPoodle's characters on mermeliz.net. |
| August |
..9th ..Updated ChatCheck's main control file to find more character .AVB files. ..2nd ..Added Syko Mama's new server for Comic Chat to the Server/Rooms page. |
| July |
..20th ..Wowsers! Sniffles has created a very comprehensive Help Page for using the Character Editor in creating your own Comic Chat Characters. Find the link to her new pages on the 'MS Chat Help Page'! (See the navagation buttons on the left). ..15th ..Added a link to a brand new server to the 'Server/Rooms Page' that just opened up this last weekend called 'Socket'. Go on in and say Howdy to 'Roshi' the host! ..12th ..Added a link to DanCCer's and Evil Steve's new room to the Server/Rooms Link Page! ..2nd ..Soft's All BGB's was suddenly closed down when her web host server was taken over by another company. She is moving to http://www.bmp2bgb.com/ |
| June | ..29th ..Updated the Character Links Page as well as the Servers/Rooms Link Page ..1st ..Updated the Column Navigation Buttons which are on the left side of this page. ..Also moved the site history logs prior to 2003 onto a 'Site History Archives' page. |
| April | ..5th ..The links for downloading the actual Microsoft Comic Chat program and the Character Editor are repaired and working again. If in the event one has future problems downloading from Mermy's links, downloaders can get the Microsoft Comic Chat and the Character Editor programs on the Phoenix On-Line Foundation web site. |
| February | ..17th ..Updated the 'Cool Programs' page and added a freeware Hard Drive copying utility called HDCopy created by Kurt Zimmermann. |
| January |
..5th ..Warmest Wishes for your New Year! Let's hope that we all remain safe!
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| 2002 | 2002 |
| December |
..7th ..Christmas is once again approaching us. This year Mermaid would like to place a link HERE for those who wish to Holitize their Desktop. This site has some very nice free Christmas themes. Some with matching screensavers and WinAmp skins. Happy holidays!
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| November |
..3rd ..IF WinXP users are getting a warning message while attempting to visit this site in regards to the old and dead 'Sokets de Trois' Trojan, then please READ THIS, then GO HERE! ..1st ..Friends, don't put their friends email address in their Windows address book! |
| October | ..23rd ..Added, A new server,
Comics Clubhouse
to the Server/Rooms Page. Their Premier Grand Opening will be Friday, October 24th. Come on over and meet Samson and Delilah.
..20th ..Added, a second REGISTRY file to the 'Server/Rooms' page for adding the IRCX-City Chat server group to your Comic Chat connection registry.
..4th ..Stussy, my dear friend from Japan who's web site is 'Comi-Cha Station' has created a link button for others to use on their web pages to create a link to this site, (mermeliz.com). Here is Stussy's wonderful work: |
| September |
..25th ..Big C is putting together a 'Comic Chat History' site, all contributions would be greatly appreciated. If you wish to help, please email your info to: smooth_criminal@ntlworld.com |
| July |
..25th ..Updated ChatCheck control file. Added many new character sites to it. ..Updated the Character Links Page. |
| May |
..25th ..Thanks to her dear friend, Snap2, Mermaid, has discovered the fun world of 'Peer-To-Peer', (p2p), file sharing! Here is a link where you can also find hours of fun when you can't find any of your friends in Comic Chat:  ..Updated Character download links page. We lost Agness' site, which apparently was closed. ..To Date, Mermaid has 157 character .AVB files posted on her FTP site that were restored to auto downloading status since she has opened this web domain 2 years ago. Although these files are there, she has never posted any download page for 'at site' public access. For now, she has decided to post a list for 'copy and paste' downloading. (You have to 'copy and paste' the url address into your web browser in order to download the character)! The list is here: Restored2Auto
..12th ..Soft has redone her background site as well as completed restoring all of the 'original' backgrounds from her former 'xoom/nbci' site. You can find the link to her pages on Merm's 'Backgrounds' page. |
| April |
..6th ..Phoenix On-Line Foundations Web Site updating efforts have finally been completed! They are back on a faster and larger server. See the Character Links Page for a link to their Web Site. ..Updated Character Links Page |
| March |
..18th ..Updated ChatCheck's control file and corrected some of the parameters that were causing errors. ..Restored LiL^Sugar's characters and her download page. Then added them to the 'Characters Link Page'. ..If anyone is searching for the Phoenix On-Line Foundations' Comic Character Pages, rest assured, they will be returning shortly. Fran, the founder, is in the process of upgrading their server. ..6th ..Added a link to the 'MS Chat Help' page. Bud-O's famous tutorials on how to create a Comic Chat character were restored to the Phoenix On-Line Tutorial pages. As well as a new area for advanced Comic Chat artists being developed called 'The Academy of Comic Chat Artists'. ..5th ..Updated the links on the Backgrounds Page once again. Bud-O has restored many old time favorites back to the 'Phoenix On-Line Foundations' Comic Chat background pages. One can also find many new backgrounds added to the pages as well. Bud-O has also reinforced his copyright claims to the backgrounds that are of his own creation. (see background pages 3 & 4 on that site). |
| February | ..20th ..Updated the links on the Backgrounds Page. Soft has added new backgrounds for download on her site. Also, Kewpie has added some more 'restored' backgrounds to hers. ..18th ..Added a Registry file for download on the Server/Rooms Page which, if installed, will add the server group IrcComicChat.Net to Comic Chat's Connection Table as a Group. ..17th ..Updated the 'Programs' and the 'Cool Stuff' pages. Started updating the 'Characters Link Page' on the 9th of this month. |
| 2001 | 2001 |
| December | ..A list of all .AVBs and .BGBs located in Mermaid_Elizabeth's Comicart folder has been added to this site. It can be downloaded Here for anyone wishing to view it who may be looking for a specific character or background! ..Racer has discontinued his domain name 'racernet.net'. Therefore Soft's main web site is also lost. Soft is closing her AOL account which means all her AOL content is also going to stop auto downloading. In light of all of this, we have moved all of her most recent 'AOL' content [auto downloading .BGB backgrounds] to a new domain. One must go to this new domain and download the 'restored' backgrounds from there in order to continue to have the most recent auto downloading backgrounds. Soft's older backgrounds which were on the xoom/nbci servers will also be restored here as well. (as time permits). The new address for Soft's restored backgrounds is here: http://www.allbgbs.com/index.htm |
| November | ..Added 'The Cajun Chat Networks' server to the server/rooms page. ..Updated Character Link Page (added 4 new sites). ..Updated Sounds link Page (added 9 new sites). ..Because of the discontinuation of the nbci.com free web hosting service, many of Soft's auto-downloading .BGB backgrounds have become dead non-autoing backgrounds. A restoration of these backgrounds is underway and will be relocated to http://allbgbs.com/ |
| October | ..ChatCheck web search file has been updated to reflect all the new web site changes. ..Added Kewpie's new 'Restored Backgrounds Page' link to the backgrounds page. |
| September | ..Updated Character Link page ..added 3 new sites. Some NBCI/XOOM sites still seem to work after NBCI's close down. Mermaid's guess is it's because they are probably on NBCI servers that the NBCI webmasters haven't gotten around to editing yet. ..ChatCheck, the Comic Chat Character Search program, has been updated to version 2.5f by Sqiz, the author. This new version will now function properly within the new Windows ME operating system. Read more about it and download it here!. |
| July | ..Added a Perl Script page that allows anyone to add their link to it for all to use! Come add your link Here! (20.Feb.02 ..Sorry had to remove this feature on account of some visitors were abusing it)! ..NBCI is rattling their sword about closing their services to free web site hosting. They are reporting that they will be closing July 15th. This will effect many many Comic Chat sites that have taken residence there. What this means for us is that there will be a time that some links on the Character link page will not work till all sites have relocated to new homes. Best wishes to all those effected! |
| June | ..Links on the Characters page have been updated. |
| April | ..Web Masters! You'll be happy to know a link to the 'must have' ..'WebGraphics Optimizer' has been added to the Programs page.
..Added links to nine new sites on the 'Characters' page. Added link on the Sounds page to 'Eaglet's Favorite Midi Sounds'. ..Happy Easter everyone! The Character page has been edited! The control files for ChatCheck have also been updated! ..Added a commentary ..'Crossing The Fence' |
| March | ..Character page has been updated! See sites with 12.03.01 date for new characters! ..MS Agent users should visit Cool Stuff page! Added .ARC extraction to WinZip Shell extensions on Programs page! ChatCheck Tip ..In order for a web page to be scanned by ChatCheck, it must have only one link per comic character on a page!
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| February | ..AS of 21 February 2001, MSN has closed their services to the Microsoft Comic Chat Servers ..No worries..There are plenty of other servers that support the Comic Chat client. Many of us have moved HERE! ..You can also find other servers and chat rooms by clicking the Servers/Rooms button in the left hand column!
..Added MacGyver's #Modern_Color Character Pages to the Character Download page! ..Added link button in column to Fun Pages! ..Also the Cool Stuff page has been updated! ..Phoenix/Nexus site has added 12 new backgrounds see the background page for the link to the site! ..Restored ChatCheck to full operational status. Download the updated version HERE ..Reposted the Microsoft .AVS files, for use in the Character Editor, for downloading. |
| January | ..Updated 'Character Page links' ..fortunecity.com has joined the ranks of free web site host servers that no longer support .AVB (Comic Chat Character Files)! |
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