Obsession

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.

Downloading and installing

Windows

You can get Windows builds here.

macOS

You can find Obsession on MacPorts.

Arch Linux

You can find Obsession on the AUR.

Building

Windows

This repository includes a convenience script that deploys a release package on Windows (x86) using Qt 4.8.7 and MinGW 4.8.2.

• Download and install MinGW 4.8.2.
• Download and install Qt 4.8.7.
• Download this repository and unpack it.
• Copy deploy.ps1.example with the name deploy.ps1.
• Open deploy.ps1 with your text editor, and adjust the $mingwPath and $qtPath variables to point to the bin directories for your MinGW and Qt installations, respectively.
• Run .\deploy.ps1 from the root directory of the repository.

This will produce an obsession-alpha-qt4-windows.zip file, ready for distribution.

Note: In order to be able to run the script, you might have to enable unsigned script execution by running the following command in an elevated PowerShell prompt: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned.

Other

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.

• Download this repository and unpack it.
• Create a build directory inside the directory where you unpacked the source if it doesn't exist.
• Run qmake -config release ../Obsession.pro from the build directory. This will generate a Makefile for you.
• You can then run make (or nmake, etc. depending on your build setup) normally in order to build your binary, which will appear in the build directory.

How do I find servers to connect to?

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.

This is an alpha

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.