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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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Nickserv (Note essential but improves security against people using same 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 or whenever you change your login password.
/msg nickserv register ''PASSWORD [EMAIL]''
Example: /msg nickserv register ''chicken [testingbobsplace@tanknspank.com]''
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 into the command section:
/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 | Setup Instructions | Website |
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Colloquy* | 2.3 | Click Here | www.colloquy.info |
HydraIRC | 0.3.165 | Click Here | www.hydrairc.com |
MIRC | (Old) | Click Here | www.mirc.com |
7.15 | Click Here | ||
Trillian | 3.0 | Click Here | www.trillian.im |
4.0 | Click Here | ||
5.0** | Click Here | ||
mibbit | Web*** | Click Here | www.mibbit.com |
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