BitComet Gets Closer to Version 1.0

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

January10th2008

BitComet, originally called SimpletBT, between versions 0.11 and 0.37, is one of the many BitTorrent clients available for the Windows platform, and its first public release was 0.28, almost 5 years ago. Despite its pretty long life, BitComet didn't reach version 1.0 yet, but it got really close to it with today's release, 0.98...
BitComet 0.98

Last version of the program was out on the 7th of December, 2007, and now, only a month after it (a month and 3 days, in fact...), version 0.98 brings us only two steps away from the 1.0 milestone. While this last version only brings some GUI fixes and improvements, and a couple of fixes to the core of the application, I must repeat the fact that version 0.98 is very close to the version that should show that BitComet reached its maturity to everyone.

If you didn't use BitComent so far, then it would be good to know that this BitTorrent client has support for no less than 43 languages, an internal Internet Explorer window which allows you to search for torrents from within the program, support for downloading eD2K links (it uses a plugin which is a modified version of the open source eMule program for this), and its features also include an embedded media player able to play Flash Video files (.flv and .swf files), called BitComet FLV player.

BitComet is completely free to download and use, being designed to work on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Since the hardware requirements section from the official page says "tested on AMD K6 266MHz MMX, 128M RAM", I am sure everyone with a decent computer for the operating system they are using should also run BitComet without any problem. To download this program, simply click here and be careful what you download, RIAA has its eyes on you!(just kidding, but be sure to check twice before downloading something)