Microchip-chat is a customizable, New World-inspired chat replacement for OctoWoW's modified World of Warcraft 1.12 client. It keeps live chat compact while making older messages easy to find, without the default WoW chat window taking up screen space.

Screenshots

Live chat — a compact chat feed with tabs and auto-hiding controls.

Chat history — the same window expands upward to browse earlier messages.

Screenshots show an earlier version of the toolbar branding.

Features

Minimal live chat: Messages scroll upward, include timestamps, and can fade after a configurable number of seconds. Message fading can also be disabled.
Expandable history: Scroll through previous messages in the same window, jump to the oldest or newest messages, and configure retention separately for each channel. Older messages are loaded on demand for smoother browsing.
Custom chat tabs: Create tabs with their own channel selections, message colors, font sizes, and filters. The default chat tab enables supported channels except LFT.
Combat Log: A separate combat tab with All Events and What Happened to Me views.
Built-in filtering: Block words or phrases and filter World chat advertisements independently for each tab. No separate WorldChatFilter installation is needed.
Class-colored names: Player names use class colors when the client can identify their class. Names remain clickable for whispers and other player interactions.
Clickable links: Supports WoW item links and web addresses. Clicking a web address opens a text field so you can copy it with Ctrl+C.
Customizable appearance: Adjust window, button, and interface-text colors; move, resize, or lock the chat window; and configure the auto-hiding toolbar.

Installation

Extract the Microchip-chat folder into World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/.
Check that Microchip-chat.toc is directly inside the addon folder.
Start the game and enter /mchat options to customize the interface.

Use /mchat history to toggle expanded history. The older /osc command is also supported.

Credits

Includes a built-in World chat filtering implementation adapted from WorldChatFilter. See WORLDFILTER_LICENSE.txt in the addon for attribution and license details.