How-to: Connect to IRC using mIRC (with pictures!)

[nindanjoe]

Channel: #lazytown
New Server: irc.synirc.net
Old Server: irc.dal.net

If you already have a mIRC installed, click here to connect to the server and then the channel: irc://irc.synirc.net (use irc://irc.synirc.net/lazytown if the first one doesn't work)
We'll be at the old one for awhile: irc://irc.dal.net/lazytown


This will be a basic guide on how to use mIRC to connect to the Official Get Lazy IRC Chat. I recommend the links at the end of this post for more information and better guides. ;) I'll probably add more details to this post in the future if anyone needs it.

1) Go to www.mirc.com to download and install mIRC (current version is 6.21) from the Download mIRC section.

2) Now that mIRC is installed, open it up. There should be a shortcut on your desktop, if it's not there go to the folder you installed mIRC to. This should be the first dialog box that pops up:



If it's not, that's fine, just click on the Connect category on the left to see the image above. You don't have to put truthful information in the Full Name and Email Address areas. As you can see, I put in John Doe and [email protected] in the respective areas. The Nickname will be your online name, like in AIM; it can be whatever you want as long as someone else didn't register it, which we'll get to later. Alternative is your alternative nickname in case the first one is taken. Invisible mode is optional, if you do turn it on, people will not be able to find you on IRC unless they already know your nickname (scoutlink.org).

3) Next up, click on the Servers section under Connect. This is where you choose which server to connect too. In this case it's DALnet: Random Server:



There are other DALnet servers and it's recommended to choose one close to you if the other servers don't work so well. Click on the Connect To Server and let mIRC connect to DALnet. You can usually tell if you got connected when there's a "Welcome to DALnet" or something. Now type /join #lazytown and push enter (or return) and you're in! Alternatively you can go to the Commands menu up on top, choose Join Channel, and type in #lazytown.

For the MAC:

I don't have a MAC, but here are some links that can help with IRC and the MAC:

MacIRC.co.uk - Apple Mac OS X IRC Resource.
"How do I use IRC on a Mac?" from the Ask Dave Taylor! Tech Support Blog

MAC Clients and Software:
Mac IRC Clients
Pure Mac: IRC, MUD & Instant Messaging - Software for Macintosh
IRC Clients for MacOS
Macintosh IRC Software
Ircle Setup Guide

Other PC IRC clients:
IRC Clients for Windows

How to register your Nick:

In the Status window (the first window you run into), type:

/NickServ REGISTER <password> <email>

Where <password> will be your password and <email> will be your actual email address. Typing /NickServ Help will also give you information on everything NickServ can do.

Sources for information and formats (which I copied):
http://www.kasshin.net/ (Cool Flash Guide here)
http://ronin.soldats.net/
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/47221
http://www.scoutlink.org/pages.php?show ... anguage=EN

[warez]If you need a serial number, use this:
Name: www.serials.ws
Key: 12010-1205142[/warez]

Easy and free solution, as suggested by Sir Finkus:

Even easier, if you have firefox, install the chatzilla plugin ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/ ) and merely click the link the irc thread. It will automaticly open up the program and connect it to the server.

If I recall correctly, Trillian has IRC and AIM. There's also other free Windows IRC clients too, you don't have to use mIRC.

[Vespasian]

great, but what about the 30 day limit?

[Stevilito]

30 day limit doesnt matter, you just have to wait a tiny bit longer to connect after its up

[Vespasian]

Ah ok, everything's good then.

[Sir Finkus]

Even easier, if you have firefox, install the chatzilla plugin ( http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/ ) and merely click the link the irc thread. It will automaticly open up the program and connect it to the server.

[ChemKneazle]

*Does Not Compute*

I obviously have a different version downloaded than the one pictured. Can't see the DALnet: Random Server option. I think I completely screwed it up to begin with, though, trying to put that link in the options.

Will uninstall and reinstall later.

*Sigh*

<-- Used to know this stuff.

[Victoria]

Just click this link:

irc://irc.synirc.net/lazytown

[ChemKneazle]

Did that...but then I get this:



And also this:

[Victoria]

Umm...install mIRC first?

[ChemKneazle]

I did.

I'm thinking it's either one of two things:

A. Even though I get those error messages, it still works because the mIRC stays open and does look like it goes to the irc://...whatever.../lazytown.

2. It only looks like I've been sent to the right place. And the reason I say this is because the channel I end up in is "#lazytown [1]" and it's the [1] that makes me think I"m not in the right place.

I will keep fooling with it. I'm good at eventually getting stuff to work. I just didn't know if it was something simple I was missing.

[ooozmin]

omg, everyone knows that the LT AIM chat is teh pwn!

[Victoria]

AIM is for faggots.

The AIM chat is nothing but a constantly moving, random pile of nonsense.

It is not even there 24/7. One day it will be under the name Chat 187321312, the next day it'll be CJs****Farts. It's completely random and nonsensical.

The IRC chat is open 24/7, and you can go in without waiting for some douche nozzle to invite you. Only mouth-breathing, Internet Explorer-using retards can't figure out how to connect to an IRC chat these days.

[ChemKneazle]

Only mouth-breathing, Internet Explorer-using retards can't figure out how to connect to an IRC chat these days.

As a mouth-breathing Internet-Explorer-using retard, do you suggest Firefox in place of IE?

[Mosheddy]

requesting mirc for MAC

in the mean time, see you on AIM

[ooozmin]

requesting mirc for MAC

in the mean time, see you on AIM

Tru dat! also, firefox with the ifox smooth skin = teh sex