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Chicken of the VNC is a popular, free Mac program, being part of the category Internet software with subcategory Remote Control.
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Chicken of the VNC is a popular, free Mac program, being part of the category Internet software with subcategory Remote Control.
More about Chicken of the VNC
It’s available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and prior versions, and you can download it in English. The current version of the program is 2.0 and the latest update happened on 1/20/2006.
Since we added this software to our catalog in 2006, it has managed to obtain 71,784 downloads, and last week it achieved 5 downloads.
About the download, Chicken of the VNC is a slick program that takes up less storage space than the average program in the section Internet software. It’s very heavily used in Germany, China, and Mexico.
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Publisher’s Description
Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you.
Chicken features automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; listen mode for navigating through firewalls; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; remappable, smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.
This program is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!
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Publisher’s Description
Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you.
Chicken features automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; listen mode for navigating through firewalls; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; remappable, smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.
This program is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!
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out of 53 votes
- 5 star
«Could not get it to work on Mac OS X 10.3.9»
«Could not get it to work on Mac OS X 10.3.9»
nturrill May 24, 2011 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b4
2011-05-24 22:14:49 | By nturrill
It has a useful function for older Macs.
I could not get it to work connecting from an Macbook with Mac OS X 10.6.7 to an old iMac with Mac OS X 10.3.9 using the «Listen for Server. » feature.
«Mac OS 10 VNC client (a.k.a. viewer)»
«Mac OS 10 VNC client (a.k.a. viewer)»
hunter3740 July 30, 2009 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b4
2009-07-30 13:46:50 | By hunter3740
Small and totally does the trick (for VNC server, whether Mac or Windows, and if Mac OS 10.4, can turn on the VNC in the Advanced part of the «Remote Desktop» checkbox in the Sharing System Preferences). Used it on many machines.
not a server (but doesn’t claim to be either, so not really a con)
Small and Simple VNC Viewer
Updated on Feb 23, 2010
Just FYI, for OS 10.5 and 10.6 users, you can still turn on «Remote Management» in the Sharing System Preference; i.e. and in that settings, check to allow VNC clients.
But as far as a viewer, go to the System folder, then Library, then CoreServices, and run «Screen Sharing»! Super simple (e.g. would have to manually port forward 5900 over 22 for stuff like that), but does the trick if you just want vnc (without any added software).
«This is a solid performer»
«This is a solid performer»
wealthychef January 03, 2006 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b3
2006-01-03 14:12:01 | By wealthychef
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I’ve used this client for a long time and it is the best out there for the Mac in terms of performance and features. I use VNC every day, several times per day.
«Works well connecting to Win2K servers»
«Works well connecting to Win2K servers»
casaic November 30, 2005 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b3
2005-11-30 08:41:39 | By casaic
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Works well connecting to Win2K and 2003 servers running TridiaVNC server. Connecting by IP address on in network and out of network machines, this is fine. Thank you for a useful app.
brunosky1 June 10, 2005 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2
2005-06-10 18:17:49 | By brunosky1
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I’ve tried, in the order, Timbuktu, VNCViewer and Chicken of the VNC, with Tiger, remotely controlling my Toshiba laptop: really the competitors can’t stand the comparison with Chicken of the VNC!
It is faster and stable, while the others two are slow and repeatedly freeze.
There is a synthetic and useful html documentation accessible from the Help.
I love this software! 🙂
rocteur_dotmac January 16, 2005 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2
2005-01-16 05:01:09 | By rocteur_dotmac
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
On iMac G3 500 MHZ running 10.3.7 it simply dissapears when you come out of full screen with control/option/apple/tilde
Kind of an invisible CRASH.
pdsi December 28, 2004 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2
2004-12-28 15:17:26 | By pdsi
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
. and is less filling! I routinely maintain a number of Windows boxes remotely and the Chicken is the client I’ve settled on. I’ve tried others but never found them as reliable or as configurable as this one.
«Supports a 3 button mouse»
«Supports a 3 button mouse»
jaredstack_dotmac December 15, 2004 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2
2004-12-15 11:20:33 | By jaredstack_dotmac
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Which is something it’s competitors can’t do without using a key + mouse workaround. Much faster than version 1.xx.
«Best VNC viewer so far»
«Best VNC viewer so far»
pedz November 22, 2004 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2
2004-11-22 09:11:27 | By pedz
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I tried two other vnc viewers for the Mac. For me, the keyboard is the critical question. Chicken of the VNC allows the shift, control, option, and command key each to be send the modifier that the user wants. These settings can be saved into profiles and each connection can specify which profile to use.
This seems to be the most complete implementation I’ve tried but I have used each of the three versions only a few days each.
The mouse tracking seems a little slow compared to the others. The feel seems very solid.
Also. the source code is available so that is a very nice plus.
spiffin August 28, 2004 / Version: Chicken of the VNC 2.0b2