A Hotline client written in Qt featuring Shift-JIS support and other stuff.
The Obsession Hotline client aims to be a modern alternative for Windows users. It supports Shift-JIS and UTF-8 encoding for Japanese users or for browsing Japanese servers. It is written using Qt and should compile and work out of the box on Windows, macOS and Linux. Check out other clients in the Hotline Wiki.
Note: This repository includes Qt 4 and Qt 6 branches. Choose the one that best fits your platform.
You can get Windows builds here.
You can find Obsession on MacPorts.
You can find Obsession on the AUR.
You might need to download and build/install Qt 4 for your platform, as well as other libraries or frameworks necessary to build Qt projects. On Windows download MinGW, and use the MinGW variant from the previous link.
- Download this repository and unpack it.
- Create a
builddirectory inside the directory where you unpacked the source if it doesn't exist. - Run
qmake -config release ../Obsession.profrom thebuilddirectory. This will generate a Makefile for you. - You can then run
make(ornmake, etc. depending on your build setup) normally in order to build your binary, which will appear in thebuilddirectory.
You can also set up modern Qt Creator by creating a kit with Qt 4.8.7 after you have installed it from the link above.
You can get started by opening the trackers dialog (Connection -> Trackers...) and adding hltracker.com. This will load a list of servers to which you can connect.
Check out https://hlwiki.com/ for more.
Posting news is not implemented. Folder uploading and downloading isn't either.
Please note that this is an alpha build. It's pretty stable, but it may lack some features. Use this program at your own risk. Should you find any bugs, please post a bug report.