mIRC Starcraft channel details and how to connect.

RoyalMarine

Ok, so here is a quick guide on how to join the Starcraft channel on mIRC.

Download mIRC from here.
http://www.mirc.com/get.html

Install mIRC

Open mIRC

you will now see this screen pop up inside mIRC



Fill in the required details such as username, etc.

Then click on the server tab



Scroll down the list until you find Quakenet. Double click it, and select random server. Click OK.



Click the connect button.

This screen will then pop up.

Just click OK.



Now type in the following command

/j starcraft.ie and press enter.



Thats it! you should now be connected!

Hope this helps some of you who have never used mIRC find our channel!

Silverfish

I started a channel last year for someone, who then disappeared...

#starcraft.ie on quakenet.

Stingerbar

Okay cool, I'll try starcraft.ie this evening and over the weekend, if anyone is on we can have some games

TheDoc

I'll setup my irc shizzle again and hang about, be easy to organise some custom practice matches

RoyalMarine

Ill be in starcraft.ie when anyone finds it

Shzm

found it

String

Il be hanging around in starcraft.ie

Im LEGEND|

Stingerbar

Just to remind everyone, get on IRC if you fancy some games, we've already had boards.ie 3v3's and they were great games

server is irc.quakenet.org

#starcraft.ie

silvine

How do I get set up on IRC? Never used it before. On a mac.

EDIT: Saw the above. You must have been updating the post while I was writing this. Thanks!

RoyalMarine

yeah sorry, i was merging 2 thread's together.

see you there!

Matthewthebig

irc is the protocol, mIRC is a client...
</pedant>

koHd

You have to pay for this crap after 30 days? Mega-lame-ology. Surely there is a free alternative we can use?

Burgo

koHd wrote: »

You have to pay for this crap after 30 days? Mega-lame-ology. Surely there is a free alternative we can use?

nobody pays for mirc.

RoyalMarine

koHd wrote: »

You have to pay for this crap after 30 days? Mega-lame-ology. Surely there is a free alternative we can use?

if you choose not to pay, then you can just wait a few seconds and it connects anyway.

TouchingVirus

Or use a free IRC client like ChatZilla, Mibbit or Smuxi

Dacian

I downloaded mIRC.

I installed it.

I opened it.

I filled in username/alternate.

I found and double clicked Quakenet and then random sever.

When I hit connect I wasn't sure what screen was supposed to pop up. So I typed in /j starcraft.ie anyway. Joined something that has just me I think. A window with my name on the right?

Am I in?

RoyalMarine

if it only has your name on the right, then sadly your not in the right place!

at the moment, there are 18 people in there, and there are always a few on at all times of the day.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

you have to type /j #starcraft.ie

the # goes before the name of any channel you want to join

docetes

just tried an addon for firefox called Chatzilla. It seems pretty sweet

VenomIreland

I'm using ChatZilla for my IRC needs

Grimebox

grimE has arrived.

(to the tune of 'carrier has arrived')

TheDoc

Got back in the channel today so ill be around from now on

Grimebox

http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=starcraft.ie

just wanted to post this for myself so I can easily find it rather than searching through old tourney threads

VikingErik

I'm being told I need authentication to log into the IRC chat. What's up with that?

RoyalMarine

not quite sure... someone (not me) was messing around with everything and i think it was set to private/invite only...

should be fixed now

IRL_Sinister

It's not.

#starcraft.ie Cannot join channel (+r): this channel requires authentication -- For details of how to obtain an account visit http://www.quakenet.org/getauthed

(I've only tried from Webchat mind you and not an official IRC client)

Funky

Fixed now I think.

Icarus152

Is there a built in chat feature with the game?

IRL_Sinister

Yes. Starcraft.ie is the channel.

EDIT: You access it by clicking the little icon beside your friends list.

jonasvalent

its changed a bit since this was first posted but not so much a little help from teh google machine didnt get me on there last night, looking forward to chatting to you guys more