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IRC clients other then mIRC.

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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?
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xchat
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Post by Defender »

When I used IRC, I used mIRC, but Trillian also supports IRC.
Give it a shot.
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Post by kurupt »

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. :P
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I just use Chatzilla (Firefox extension).
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Post by Kyouryuu »

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.
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Post by Mr. Perfect »

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. ;)
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Post by Nitrofox125 »

I use Trillian and xChat, though I never get on IRC enough for it to make a big difference.
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Post by MD-2389 »

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.
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Post by Mr. Perfect »

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. :)
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the lastest windows version of Xchat is shareware, so note that.
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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.
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Post by SkyNet »

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