AmTALK II has the following features:

• fully multithreaded for several talk sessions at once.
• auto answer facility to accept talk requests and store incoming messages. Can be triggered manually or by a user-definable timeout. Optional auto answer information icon on workbench displaying number of new and unread messages.
• "Locate" function to locate an AmTALK II user on a dynamic IP address even if you don't know the exact IP number he is using right now.
• history of last used talk addresses for easy access.
• user configurable sounds for notification of incoming talk requests and successfully established talk links and more...
• userlist to store frequently used talk partners, with aliasing for easy talk start and specificable access privilleges (override auto answer, refuse/ignore always, locate always etc.)
• can be started from inetd, or reside resident in the background, activated by hotkey.
• supports clipboard Copy & Paste from talk windows.
• keeps a full log of incoming talk requests.
• supports session log save in ANSI or plain text mode
• nice and friendly GUI to start talks, control operation and configuration
• handles incoming talk requests with "wrong" usernames gracefully.
• keyboard resethandler to gracefully close active talk requests upon a soft reset.
• works with Genesis, AmiTCP, Miami and as225r2-derived TCP/IP stacks.