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| http://www.vapor.com/amirc/ |
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AmIRC is a client for the IRC Internet Relay Chat protocol written by
Oliver Wagner (owagner@vapor.com). It is a part of the VaporWare suite
of Internet applications. For more information on AmIRC or any other
VaporWare products, please see our website - http://www.vapor.com/.
AmIRC is *SHAREWARE*. You can register it easily with the included
registration utility at any of our registration sites around the world.
These include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the
United Kingdom, and the USA.
To use your Credit Card or First Virtual account to register online,
just point your browser at http://order.vapor.com/cgi-bin/regform. This
is a secure site. All Credit Card orders are processed through the UK
registration site, at current UK prices. All First Virtual orders are
processed through the USA registration site, at current USA prices.
Although AmIRC 2.0 contains numerous more hours of work and thus is
slightly more expensive than AmIRC 1.x, there is *NO UPGRADE FEE* --
your legal AmIRC 1.x keyfile will continue to work. The free upgrade is
our "Thank you!" to all the people who already registered AmIRC 1.x,
instead of using cracked versions, pirated key files or "evaluation
periods" of several months or even years. Registrations at the AmIRC
1.x price are no longer accepted as of this release.
This is the seventh public release of AmIRC. Although it has undergone
thorough internal testing prior to release, some bugs may well have
remained. If you encounter a bug, please submit a bug report to our
online BugTrack database, at http://www.vapor.com/bugtrack/. Thanks!
The executable comes in two versions: One, called "AmIRC", is compiled
for OS 2.x and 68000 CPUs, the other, "AmIRC020" is compiled for 68020
CPUs (and up) and for OS 3.x systems. The install program should select
the right executeable for your CPU.
Special thanks to all ATO members who provided translations for AmIRC.
See http://ato.vapor.com/ato/ for more information on the Amiga
Translators Organization. Please note that not all Catalogs have yet
been updated for AmIRC 2.0, but this will happen soon.
(For changes since v1.69, please see below).
AmIRC v2.0's features include:
- Works with Miami, AmiTCP and as225/inet225, no additional libraries.
- Built-in highly optimised DCC drivers for SEND, TSEND and MOVE, with
asynchronous file I/O and threaded network handling. Supports drag &
drop sending of files, and DCC RESUME.
- Tranparent DCC CHAT routes all /MSGs via DCC CHAT if possible. There
is an option to automatically accept DCC CHAT connections.
- Supports secure encrypted DCC CHAT (SCHAT).
- Ultra fast text output and scrolling. Supports copy & paste for the
list text, and allows the use of proportional fonts.
- Internal CTCP flood and DCC bomb protection.
- Full Undernet IRC extensions (reply codes and additional commands).
- Intuitive channel display, with userlist and channel mode overview.
Channel modes can easily be changed and the banlist inspected via
these gadgets. The configurable user action list allows you to
perform whatever action you like on user(s) in channel by the press
of a mousebutton..
- Uses query windows for private chat.
- Supports "smart" banning.
- Versatile AREXX port includes server message parsing (event trapping)
and commandline/script interaction.
- Easy to use command line aliasing.
- Built-in IdentD, which is automatically disabled if another IdentD is
already running.
- Nickname notification, highliting, ignoring and kickban.
- Versatile event handling, allows you to bind sound effects, auto-
deiconify, or ARexx scripts to certain events.
- Server phonebook.
- Last nick history stores the nicknames of the last nicks you've sent
MSGs to, received MSGs from or addressed publically with "nick:".
Use the ":" placeholder in all commands which require nicknames,
(e.g. /MSG, /OP, /DEOP), for automatic expansion.
- The TAB key automatically cycles through the list of last used nicks
with a /MSG prefix.
- Nickname completion. Pressing TAB after typing a partial nickname will
automagically match nicks in the current channel, just like in your
favorite CON: handler.
- Auto rejoin channel on /KICK, and auto reconnect to server facility.
- Auto /AWAY after a user-specified idle timeout. Also, auto unaway after
sending public and/or private msgs is possible.
- URL grabber for interfacing with the Voyager WWW browser (or via an
ARexx script for other browsers)
New features since AmIRC's last public release (1.69) include:
- Query and channel windows can now be iconified individually to a
"tray" window. Tray window button labels turn bold when new messages
are received, white when a highlight occurs, and carry information
about the number of messages in each window.
- New low-level Plugin API. Documentation of the API is available from
www.vapor.com or Aminet, in a separate archive. An example plugin,
WallChop.AmiPlug, is included.
- Server list is now a ListTree object with subgroups for different
networks.
- Can now use MIMEPrefs to automatically view & save files received via
DCC. Activate the "Use MIMEPrefs to view?" or "Use MIMEPrefs to save?"
menu options.
- "Lag-O-Meter" (tm ;)) probes the IRC server every 30 seconds and shows
the current lag from 0-10+ in a gauge below the userlist. The Info
window also contains the three most recent measurements and the
average.
- Heavily improved logging. All channel and query windows now have an
"L" button to the right of the input gadget, which is a toggle button
to activate the logging to a user-specified directory.
- "Favorites" window added to store the names of channels you use
regularly. Click on the channel name in a window to open.
- AmIRC now uses NList.mcc (if available) for its listviews. NList is
written by Gilles Masson (masson@iut-soph.unice.fr).
- Stronger CTCP flood protection.
- DCC connections now work with Miami's SOCKS support.
- Files received via DCC are opened in shared mode during transfer,
so you can play or view them partially while the transfer is still
in progress (esspecially for all you mp3 freaks out there :-)
- DCC receives now have the options to Replace a file. Both the send
and receive windows have Cleanup buttons, to remove old closed and
failed connections.
- DCCs now show the estimated remaining time of a transfer based
on current throughput.
- Query windows now have an N button to change the nickname the window
is currently bound to.
- Background color of AmIRC's main listviews can now be configured.
- /AWAY messages are now filtered, and only shown once to avoid screen
cluttering when talking to someone who is set /AWAY.
- special "Invite" and "Oper" requesters
- Can now automatically accept DCC Send requests.
- Now sends pertinent information to query windows, such as /nick and
/QUIT messages from that user, as well as CTCP and DCC messages.
Known problems, their reasons and their cures:
- You absolutely MUST install SetPatch 40.16 (or higher), otherwise you
will stumble over the broken pool functions in 3.0/3.1 exec.
- Spurious crashes when having an ObtainGIRPort hack installed. These
hacks break a few of the ROM internal BOOPSI gadget classes (perhaps
most notably the propgclass which is used by AmIRC for it's scroller)
and MUST not be used. Older versions suggested to install such a hack
to avoid MagicMenu lockups; this was before the system hostility of
the ObtainGIRPort hack was unveiled.
- Neither HILITE, IGNORE nor URL-Grabber work on text written by you.
This is due to internal reasons, I'm not sure if it is worth changing.
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