Anyone an old-school user of Xircon?
reddit / irc

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lagerea · 2021-03-09 07:15

So I used to use Xircon w/Kano back in the early 2000s and I suppose
on a nostalgic kick I did some digging and found it again.

I wasn't able to find the last version but I did manage to find the
1.4b, the kano script installer crashes but fortunately, it seems to
copy most of the files.  I was wondering if either someone can locate
the last version of xircon or was familiar enough with TCL programs
that could help me fine-tune this puppy?

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theredkrawler · 2021-03-09 12:17

I loved Xircon with Kano. It was the ultimate Windows IRC client back
in the day.

Last time I used it I ended up putting it on a Windows XP VirtualBox
image. Never did get it running properly under Windows 7/8/10.

Also I thought 1.4b WAS the latest ...

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lagerea · 2021-03-09 12:33

There is a FAQ for a 1.6b: http://www.irc.org/ftp/pub/pub/irc/clients/
msdos/win3/xircon/tcl/xircfaq.html

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crimsaq · 2021-03-09 13:47

I loved using it back in the day! The same problems plagued me
recently, and I've had to resort to irssi on linux, and hexchat in
windows. IRC for life! ;)

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shubjero · 2021-03-09 15:16

I remember Xircon w/ Kano. It was a solid alternative to others at the
time. I cut my teeth with mIRC and ircN script and for a brief period
remember using Xircon w/ Kano. On Linux I used BitchX. These days I've
stopped using irssi in favour of Weechat. On Windows if I don't feel
like opening up an Ubuntu terminal (awesome btw) I'll just use
Hexchat. Hexchat is a fairly recent discovery for me and I just use
the version made for Windows 7 since it's free. I still use IRC every
day to talk to some life long friends I met on IRC in the 90's but
also professionally since I work with a lot of big open source
projects and many of them live on FreeNode.

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[deleted] · 2021-03-10 01:43

I used it, but I think I always preferred mIRC

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mrstevemosher · 2021-04-28 14:35

Ahh loved it with Kano back in like 98 :)

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IntuitiveNZ · 2021-05-25 11:05

Yes. It was the first IRC client I ever used, then I moved to mIRC,
and now to XChat. :)

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IntuitiveNZ · 2021-05-25 11:06

and I can't find a copy of the original website on archive.org but, I
didn't find a Windows binary on the Debian site:


http://ftp.be.debian.org/ftp.irc.org/clients/windows/xircon/

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highbaud · 2022-09-01 13:40

Xircon was great

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lagerea · 2022-09-01 13:42

Unrivaled.

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