IRCjr is a small IRC client designed for early IBM PCs and similar
machines. The features and coding style were chosen to make it very
usable even on the oldest and smallest of machines. Features include:
- CGA, MDA, EGA, and VGA display support with resolutions
from 80x25 to 80x50
- Standard 'split-screen' layout: chat area on
top, 1 status line, 3 lines for user input
- User configurable backscroll buffer tested up to 1000
lines
- Toggleable beeper, timestamps, and logging to a file
- Fast - very usable on the oldest 8088 based systems
Details can be found in ircjr.txt.
Below are a
screen shot of it running in a DOSBox on a Windows 2000
machine and a YouTube video of it running on an IBM PCjr. (The YouTube
video can be viewed in higher resolution on the YouTube site.)
Note the TCP/IP statistics (colored in cyan, obtained by hitting Alt-S)
- over 100,000
TCP/IP packets in and out during this session! (I finally ended the
session after a week.)
IRCjr is not a replacement for a full featured modern IRC client. If
you need file transfer capabilities, multiple connections to different
servers, etc. then you probably want a modern IRC client on a modern
machine.
Download!
IRCjr is included with the other mTCP applications. They can
be
downloaded from the main mTCP page
here.
Created June 20th, 2008, Last updated July 18th,
2010
(C)opyright Michael B. Brutman, mbbrutman@yahoo.com
