- Clients
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mIRC, an IRC client for Windows, written by Khaled Mardam-Bey. mIRC is a friendly IRC client
that is well equipped with options and tools.
mIRC is shareware, which means that you can download mIRC and try it out freely for 30 days to
evaluate it. If during, or at the end of, the evaluation period you decide that you would like
to continue using mIRC, you must register your copy.
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HydraIRC is an open-source IRC client with an attractive and easy to use interface. It supports
DCC Chat and File transfers, Connecting to multiple servers, Dockable Floating Tabbed Windows,
Autohiding Windows, DLL Plugins, Channel Monitoring, Message Logs, Event Viewer, Themes,
Color schemes, Buddy groups, Audible and Visual Notifications , Reg-Exp Highlighting,
Favorites and much more.
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BitchX was started by Trench and HappyCrappy as a script for the ircII client.
Around Christmas of 1994, the script was patched directly into the client by Colten Edwards,
aka panasync (this was around the time of BitchX-36).
Now, nearly ten years old in its client form, BitchX continues to expand and change around the
IRC of today.
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Xchat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems. Xchat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant
operating systems. (This includes windows). Xchat is a graphical IRC client. It runs under the
X Window System and uses the GTK+ toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use Gnome.
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ViRC 2, a high-performance IRC client. ViRC's strengths: multiple simultaneous server connections,
a clean and customizable interface, Turbo DCC file transfer, and powerful Versus scripting with
ObjectVersus (OVS) extensions.