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ZAM 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 ZAM. This guide is written to allow for people who have never used IRC before to easily get connected and It is currently available on Mac's and PC's. There are several software options you can use and below we will explain how to get that software and configure it.

How to Set up Your IRC

After you acquire an IRC program, add a connection and give it a name, you can use Allakhazam. 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).
    • Alternative SSL-enabled ports: 6697 or 5697 (if you wish to use SSL)
Choose an IRC Identity
  • Nickmame: Your ZAM 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.

Nickserv

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:

Channel Game Join Code to use in client
#Aion Aion /join #Aion
#DAoC Dark Age of Camelot /join #DAoC
#EQ EverQuest /join #EQ
#EQ2 EverQuest II /join #EQ2
#EQOA EverQuest Online Adventures /join #EQOA
#FFXI Final Fantasy XI /join #FFXI
#FFXIV Final Fantasy XIV /join #FFXIV
#FR Free Realms /join #FR
#GuildFans Guild Wars 2 /join #GuildFans
#LotRO Lord of the Rings Online /join #LotRO
#Rift Rift: Planes of Telara /join #Rift
#SWG Star Wars Galaxies /join #SWG
#TERA TERA /join #TERA
#WoW World of Warcraft /join #WoW
#Wikibase Wikibase* /join #Wikibase
*General discussion and live help with all things Wikibase.

Example

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

/join #GuildFans

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

Below are installation instructions with specific software's

Software Version Link
Colloquy (Mac) 2.3 Click Here
MIRC (Old) Click Here
7.15 Click Here
Trillian 3.0 Click Here
4.0 Click Here
5.0* Click Here
mibbit.com** ?? Link Soon
*This is the Recommended IRC Client
**This is a web-based Client that requires Javascript enabled and use of Firefox, Chrome or Safari

MIRC

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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IRC with Mac

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