IRC clients other then mIRC.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:35 pm

I've been using mIRC pretty much forever just because that's what I started out on, and I'm wondering what else is available. What IRC clients do you guys use for Windows?

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:15 pm

xchat

Defender · Post by **Defender** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:30 pm

When I used IRC, I used mIRC, but Trillian also supports IRC.
Give it a shot.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:51 pm

are you just fed up with mirc because of its blandness or is it a deeper problem? you can just try a wrapper that changes the look and adds alot of different scripts that do various things. my irc client barely resembles mirc at all.

if its something else thats the problem, i don't know, sorry.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:52 pm

I just use Chatzilla (Firefox extension).

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:35 pm

I used to use XChat. Now I find myself using Chatzilla because it's there and I'm too lazy to get a different one.

Another good IRC program is IceChat. Though it's a bit too flashy, it has a lot of substance.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:39 pm

I just want to see what else is available. I never thought there was anything missing from IE untill I tried Firefox, so maybe there's something like that out there for mIRC.

That and the mIRC trial period thing is starting to piss me off.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:39 am

I use Trillian and xChat, though I never get on IRC enough for it to make a big difference.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:49 pm

Theres also the IRC plugin for Miranda IM. Its OK for basic IRC purposes, but I prefer mIRC. I have no idea if its still freely available or not, but theres VIRC, BitchX, and another I can't remember the name of that I used a few years ago.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:35 pm

Tried Chatzilla, but it seems a little to simple. Seems like Xchat is pretty popular, so that's next up for evaluation.

Keep the sugestions coming if anyone has any.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:52 pm

the lastest windows version of Xchat is shareware, so note that.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:09 pm

Note that I wasn't particularly thrilled with XChat. It was just something to hold me over in between mIRC and the discovery of IceChat.

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:26 pm

Actually X-Chat is still free for Win32. Please check out SilvereX.org

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:34 pm

Bitchx.