Roger Wilco

Roger Wilco is a small Windows chat tool designed specifically for helping you talk to your friends while you play games. It can be used with various games, such as Quake III, Half-Life, and Diablo II, and offers support for web and ICQ integration.

The program implements a wizard that helps you tweak several settings. This approach comes in handy especially for less experienced users, as it helps them follow the integrated steps in order to finish the configuration process.

You may opt for WAV or DirectSound recording, choose the playback and recording device, automatically pick the microphone, as well as test your voice by speaking for five seconds and adjust the input level (in some cases you may have to change the system settings in order to make Roger Wilco work properly).

Plus, you can make the utility check if your sound card supports Full Duplex (transmit and receive) or Half Duplex (only receive), assign a hotkey in order to enable the recording mode, choose your Internet connection speed and alter the UDP port number, use less CPU (it reduces the audio quality) or run the tool at high CPU priority, and enter a nickname that appears to other channel members.

Roger Wilco sports a multi-tabbed layout that gives you the possibility to easily switch between the key parameters of the program, namely channel, transmission, adjustments and host base station.

The program gives you the possibility to create a new channel by specifying the authentication parameters (name and password).

You may launch the base station every time Windows starts, allow Roger Wilco users to host channels on this base station when it’s idle, and hide the base station from the public directory.

Roger Wilco keeps a list with all your channels and lets you join or leave the selected channel, kick users, work with a built-in channel browser to help you find other users, tweak the voice sensitivity, and adjust the speaker volume and microphone input level.

Roger Wilco comes with several handy features for helping you talk to your friends while playing games. On the downside, the program hasn’t been updated for a long time, so it may cause compatibility issues on newer operating systems.