As may have become clear from this Web site, MacIRC has not been in active development for several years. This situation was a result of work-related commitments of Chris Bergmann, its author; MacIRC was never a full-time job for him.
For this reason, we will no longer be providing support for MacIRC, nor accepting shareware payments. Feel free to use MacIRC 0.9.7 and earlier for as long as you wish.
Two mainly feature-complete versions of MacIRC have been released; they are downloadable from this Web site:
An enhanced version of MacIRC 0.9.6, known as version 0.9.7, is the end of the line for the rewritten code base. Download it here. This version has successfully been used on Mac OS 9.0.4 and earlier versions, as well as under the Classic environment of Mac OS X.
A second complete rewrite of MacIRC is currently in progress. It will probably gain a new name, since it is neither a Mac-only program, nor simply an IRC client.
 Download MacIRC 0.9.6 |
 Download MacIRC 0.9.4 |
 Documentation |
 Other resources |
The About this Website page contains some information on the tools I used to produce this site. Thanks to Kriss for the new MacIRC title graphic.
In version 0.9.6, speech support, logging, bookmarks, faces, and time stamping are not yet implemented. There is no ban list or notify list as in 0.9.4 yet. The program is almost unusable in black and white.
In version 0.9.4, domain name server lookup is broken with Open Transport 1.1.1 and later in the PowerPC native version (cached IPs from previous versions of Open Transport or MacTCP will continue to work). If you're using Open Transport on a PowerMac, upgrade to MacIRC 0.9.6. The Ignore command in the Cmd menu and Names palette popup, and the arrange windows (Stack and Tile) commands in the Layout menu don't do anything yet. Dropping nicknames onto the connection list does indeed create connection entries, but with connection type ? they doesn't do anything when you try to connect. DCC sends are always in MacBinary format. The "incomplete" in the bot userlist voice popup means what it looks like: it doesn't work yet. /ctcp system misidentifies some hardware configurations and triggers some IRC clients' flood protection. There are several small refreshing problems when the Use Color preference is disabled (resize or close a window to get it to redraw).
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