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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: blakespot on June 19, 2011, 10:52:07 PM
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I have an A2000 '020 with OS 3.1.
What's a good IRC client to use? Thanks.
bp
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AmIRC and WookieChat are the best clients for Amiga imo.
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Though AmIRC apparently is riddled with backdoors and security holes.
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Though AmIRC apparently is riddled with backdoors and security holes.
Some links to this effect would be interesting.
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AmIRC and WookieChat are the best clients for Amiga imo.
+99
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Amirc and wookiechat is quite resourcehungry so i think i would prefer grapevine on a slow 020 machine even if thats a quite bad irc client. but test with amirc first. a 68020 might be enough to run it smooth, on 68000 it's painfully slow and on 030 it's ok
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I use the netconnect package. Brilliantly easy. AmIRC and TCP stack.
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Amirc and wookiechat is quite resourcehungry so i think i would prefer grapevine on a slow 020 machine even if thats a quite bad irc client. but test with amirc first. a 68020 might be enough to run it smooth, on 68000 it's painfully slow and on 030 it's ok
Having 1 or 2MB fast ram should do.
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There is also BlackIRC available for free from Aminet. I have never used it but the documentation makes it sound great.
What is the most interesting Amiga IRC channel these days?
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Though AmIRC apparently is riddled with backdoors and security holes.
There's no backdoor that I can think of. AmIRC has two hidden features though:
- It's possible to query the serial number via specially crafted CTCP. This can be used to identify people using pirated versions.
- AmIRC refuses to DCC SEND its' keyfiles. That's reasonable enough measure I'd think.
Neither of these amounts to a backdoor or security hole IMHO.
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On a few of my setups, AmIRC seems to have some memory leak bug where it will just start eating all my RAM until it's gone, on a 32MB and a 128MB machine it happens. I wish I knew how to stop it because AmIRC is much faster than WookieChat, although WookieChat is still what I use on my 030 A1200. I use Grapevine on my 2MB 68000 A600 and it works great too.
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Never noticed a memory leak in AmIRC... I would use it for between six to 12 hours at a time. In fact, for a while I was leaving it on for days at a time. Could it be one of the MUI classes leaking?
The last time I used it regularly was probably a good three years ago. Saw heavy usage bewteen 1997-ish and 2004, with Kuang11 installed. I would assume several of the MUI custom classes used by AmIRC have seen updates if not out-right replacements since then.
It still runs very well for me when I fire it up, but it seems that the IRC social channels have all but been abandoned.
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I have an A2000 '020 with OS 3.1.
What's a good IRC client to use? Thanks.
bp
http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-amiga.html
Try them out and let us know which one works best etc.