DCEmulation:IRC Chat

Please join us in our IRC chat room channel for off-topic chat!

Address: irc.foreverchat.net
Channel: #dcemulation

If your questions relate to Dreamcast development or other Dreamcast-related topics, you will probably have greater success at irc.freenode.net #dreamcastdev

If you are new to IRC chat, please read below for more information.

Introduction

The purpose of the following is to document ways to connect to the IRC channel--the chat room--using several popular clients. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. IRC allows you to chat almost instantly with people all over the world. IRC uses networks, servers, and channels to get you to where you want to go. DCEmulation has a channel on the ForeverChat server. Other popular networks include EFnet, Freenode, and DALnet. Upon joining a network, you can join a channel by typing the command "/join #channel", without quotes and replacing #channel with your desired channel.

Connecting to DCEmulation IRC

To connect to our channel under any IRC client, type the following: /server irc.foreverchat.net Wait until messages stop scrolling by in your client, then type /join #dcemulation It's that simple. After joining the channel, feel free to ask us for help in using IRC. To keep other people from registering your desired nickname, type the following: /msg nickserv register password email replacing password with your desired password and email with an email address where you can be contacted. When you connect, you will need to enter /msg nickserv identify password This proves that you are the owner of the nickname, and this is how you gain ops or voice in channels automatically. If someone else is using your desired nickname, or if you got disconnected and your nickname is still in the channel, you can type /msg nickserv ghost nickname password and that name will be disconnected.

Popular IRC Clients

IRC is a very old protocol, and therefore there are many clients you can use. Some clients are really good... and some are very bad. Rather than show you how to use each individually, we have provided links to tutorials made by other people on using these clients.

mIRC

mIRC is the most popular Windows IRC client. It can be obtained from mirc.com. IRCBeginner.com has a pretty good tutorial showing how to connect this popular client to the Undernet IRC network. The only difference is in the Servers box you will need to click the add button, and put in irc.foreverchat.net.

XChat

X-Chat is probably the second most popular IRC client out there, and it is widely used on Linux, *BSD, Unix, and Mac OS X systems. X-Chat is open source, so there are many versions of this client. The official build can be found at XChat.org. A very good unofficial Windows build can be found at Silverex.org. A universal binary of X-Chat Aqua for Mac OS X can be found at its sourceforge.net page. XChat.org has a document that shows the basic functionality of the client.

Dreamcast PlanetWeb

Do you use your Dreamcast for internet access? If so, the PlanetWeb browser has an IRC client built-in! All you have to do is type pwchat://irc.foreverchat.net:6667/#dcemulation into the address bar.

Web Chat

Don't want to install anything? Are you on a public computer or are you at work or school? You can use the IRC @ Work website to get to the chat room. Put in your own Nickname and use irc.foreverchat.net as the Server and #dcemulation as the Channel.

Other Guides and Closing Thoughts

If we don't have what you are looking for in this document, don't worry! IRCHelp.org has tons of guides that can help you which are probably much more complete than this one. This guide is in no way complete, nor will it ever be. We hope that you have found this guide useful!