IRC
From Astro Wars
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a distributed, interactive communication network. People form channels to talk with each other, but also private chat rooms can be created.
Channels
On Quakenet there are several Astrowars related IRC channels. Official channels include:
- #astrowars (international)
- #aw.de (german)
- #aw.fr (french)
- #aw.es (spanish)
- #aw.pl (polish)
- #aw.nl (dutch)
- #aw.prt (portuguese)
- #aw.swe (swedish)
Clients
- Astrowars Java Chat ( http://www.astrowars.com/chat )
- Just needs some Java-enabled browsers.
- mIRC ( http://www.mirc.com )
- Properly the most commonly used one. Some consider it to be too complicated. Shareware. Windows only.
- Miranda ( http://www.miranda-im.org )
- Multi-protocol client. OpenSource. Windows only.
- Trillian ( http://www.trillian.cc )
- Multi-protocol client. Commercial. Windows only.
- XChat ( http://www.xchat.org )
- Easy to use and robust multi-platform client (Windows, Unix, MacOS X). OpenSource.
- Gaim ( http://gaim.sf.net )
- Another easy to use multi-platform and multi-protocol client. OpenSource.
