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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.
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 |
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Choose an IRC Identity |
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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''
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 |
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#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 |
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:
Below are installation instructions with specific software's
Software | Version | Link |
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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 |
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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