Need help with Grapevine IRC client (or alternative for A600)

[Colani1200]

So I was happy to get Grapevine up and running on my A600 the other day. It connects fine to the Freenode servers, however I am unable to join any channel. I always get the error "Not enough parameters MODE":



Any ideas? Or any other IRC channel that will work on A600 with OS 2.1 and 2 MB chip RAM? I already tried those from Aminet:

http://aminet.net/package/comm/irc/AmIRCii-2.8.2
http://aminet.net/package/comm/irc/ChatBox1_164

But I couldn't get any of them to work.

[Colani1200]

What happens on other IRC networks? E.g., irc.abime.net / #abime.net

Different problem: Connection to the server gets lost immediately.

"<> Connection to server irc.abime.net lost (Error code not set)."

[Colani1200]

You could try Chatbox?

http://aminet.net/search?query=chatbox

I couldn't get that one to work.

[Colani1200]

You could try Chatbox?

http://aminet.net/search?query=chatbox

OK, I got it to work with the help of SnoopDOS. Obviously it was looking for button.gadget in the wrong place...

I am able to connect to irc.abime.net and #abime.net with it, but not to any channel on Freenode. I get the same error as in Grapevine ("not enough parameters MODE"). Any ideas?

[Colani1200]

So ... maybe the issue is that Grapevine and Chatbox are just issuing "/mode colani" without any parameters

I sniffed this with tcpdump and apparently, Chatbox issues a "MODE" command without any parameters at all. :confused:

- is there a setting in the app to customise log on mode parameters? You could add +R, or set /umode Colani600 +i

I didn't find any...

[Colani1200]

you would think that the software would be clever enough to not do that, or issue correct commands.

True. RFC 1459 is from 1993, Grapevine from 1995 and ChatBox from 1997, so you'd expect them to be compliant.