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Allakhazam IRC Network

Congratulations! You've decided to join our wonderful IRC community! For those who have just happened to come upon this guide, IRC is a type of chat room that we use here at Allakhazam. This guide was written to allow for people who have never used IRC before to easily get connected. Currently it's Windows only and one for other platforms may be written sometime in the future (You can still connect and a similar principle can be used on Macs and Linux.) There are several software options you can use such as x-chat but Trillian and mIRC will be used in this guide for their ease of use. You can also use the Online Gaming Radio's browser embedded IRC feature, which ties to our IRC server.

How to Set up Your IRC

After you acquire an IRC program, add a connection and give it a name, you can use Allakhazam for example. The following information should be standard for all IRC's programs.

IRC Client Settings:

  • Host Servername: irc.allakhazam.com
  • Port: 6667, 6668, 6669, 5667 or 7000 (any one will work). Alternatively, SSL-enabled ports: 6697 or 5697

Choose an IRC Identity

  • Nickmame: Your Allakhazam website user name
  • Alternative: Any username
  • Email Address: E-mail

We've integrated IRC with the website, your site user name is your IRC nickname. When you first join IRC, you need to make nickserv aware of your login name. You do this with the register command. You will only need to do this with your first login, whenever you change your login password, or if nickserv is reset for some reason.

/msg nickserv register ''PASSWORD [EMAIL]''

Email is an optional field and is useful if you need to recover your IRC password.

Thereafter, when you connect, you just need to identify yourself. It is important for you to do this to keep others from using your registered name while in chat. Nicknames are forced, anyone who doesn't register and login is renamed to a random guest name. The goal is to make it difficult to appear to be someone else.

/msg nickserv identify ''PASSWORD''

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IRC Channel Information

Once you log in, you can join one of these channels by typing /join followed by the channel name:

For example: To join the Wikibase discussion channel, you would type the following:

/join #Wikibase

If you want to chat in multiple rooms, put a ; in between each additional statement

/msg nickserv identify YOURPASSWORDGOESHERE; /join #channel1; /join #channel2; /join #channel3

In the chatrooms, you will notice several different types of users:

  • Operators: @ are people who own the channel. In all the main supported channels the @'s are the people working for Allakhazam, or those users set as "Op" by an Allakhazam employee.
  • Halfops: % are helpers to the channel staff. They watch a channel and keep people from harassing you and ruining your chat experience.
  • Voice: +'s during times of moderation people with +'s get to still speak in the channel. This privilege is, however, usually suspended during Dev Chats.

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Setup Instructions

Trillian-Specific

Trillian is current at Trillian 4, This guide is for Trillian 3, It will be updated shortly.

This guide shows step by step instructions for how to use the Allakhazam IRC network with Cerulean Studios Trillian 3 basic, a free IRC chat client program. You can download the latest version of Trillian basic here and Trillian also comes in a Pro version, however the specific settings are slightly different and there are more options.

For inital installation it self-explanatory, if its confusing head over to the Offical Trillian Website

The Main window will load after the splash screen. From there, go to the Trillian menu, then select Manage my Connections... option.

Click on Add a new connection...

And select IRC from the list.

From here, see the information listed above for How to Set up Your IRC.

For additional Trillian settings, see the following instructions.

In the new window that opens in the "Perform buffer" section check the check box, and add the following text:

/msg nickserv identify YOURPASSWORDGOESHERE; /join #channel and any other channels you'd like to join automatically.

On that same page, also check the "reconnect on disconnect" box so that if you are disconnected for some reason, Trillian will reconnect you automatically as soon as it is allowed. To do this select the Miscellaneous tab, then select Rejoin Channel when kicked and on connect.

Now press Save settings, close Trillian, then restart Trillian. The following window should appear:

Use the syntax /msg nickserv register USERNAME PASSWORD to log in and register.

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MIRC-Specific

First step is to go to www.mirc.com, download it and install it.

When you first open up mIRC you should get the options window if you don't click Tools and then Options.

Here you should fill in your Full Name, your Email Address, your Nickname (Use your Allakhazam user name), Alternative (Usually some variation of your Nickname or add clone to it.)

Now you should click Servers on the left and then click the Add button.

From here, see the information listed above for How to Set up Your IRC.

Now click Connect on the left and then click the Connect button.

If this is the very first time joining IRC a window called "mIRC Favorites" will pop-up. I suggest unchecking Pop up favorites on connect and then clicking ok.

Now you are connected to IRC!

In the box at the bottom window type /join #channel and press enter on your keyboard.

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Online Gaming Radio Web Chat

To begin, go to Online Gaming Radio's Web Page and click "Chat" in the upper right hand corner under the Podcasts link.

Enter your preferred user name in the nickname field where it says "Guest???" and click "Chat!" This will take you to the Online Gaming Radio dedicated IRC chat room.

By clicking the word "Channels" at the top or bottom of the chat window, you will be shown all the channels that you can join. Some are not listed above as they are newly created or private. To enter another room, type /join #roomname.

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