IRC client for OS 3.1 / AmiTCP?

[blakespot]

I have an A2000 '020 with OS 3.1.

What's a good IRC client to use? Thanks.




bp

[Christian Johansson]

AmIRC and WookieChat are the best clients for Amiga imo.

[odin]

Though AmIRC apparently is riddled with backdoors and security holes.

[LoadWB]

Though AmIRC apparently is riddled with backdoors and security holes.

Some links to this effect would be interesting.

[ChaosLord]

AmIRC and WookieChat are the best clients for Amiga imo.

+99

[smf]

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

[stefcep2]

I use the netconnect package.  Brilliantly easy. AmIRC and TCP stack.

[itix]

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.

[ChaosLord]

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?

[Piru]

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.

[Cammy]

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.

[LoadWB]

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.

[HotRod]

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.