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You can download any of the IRC clients listed below to connect to our IRC servers. Wikipedia have a great IRC client comparison which you can use to select your prefered IRC client to connect to the network with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IRC_clients).  A comprehensive list of IRC clients is also available on IRC Reviews (http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/) and for updated news on IRC client releases check out IRC 101 (http://www.irc101.org/news.php?client=archive)

Windows

• mIRC http://www.mirc.com
• XChat: http://www.xchat.org 
• dIRC http://www.dragonmount.net/software/dirc/
• Klient http://www.klient.com
• Leafchat http://www.leafdigital.com/Software/leafChat/
• pIRCh http://www.pirchat.com
• WiRC http://wircirc.cjb.net
• XiRCON http://www.xircon.com 

Unix

• XChat: http://www.xchat.org 
• BitchX http://www.bitchx.org
• EPIC http://www.epicsol.org
• ircII http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/
• irssi http://irssi.org/
• kvirc http://www.kvirc.net
• ScrollZ http://www.scrollz.com/
• sIRC http://www.iagora.com/~espel/sirc/sirc.html
• Zircon http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/ 

Amiga

• amIRC http://www.vapor.com/products/?prod=amirc
• Chatbox http://www.hut.fi/~samzait/chatbox/

BeOS

• Bardak http://207.16.16.37/Bardak/
• Baxter http://www.abisoft.com/Baxter/
• Bowser http://bowser.sourceforge.net
• LnIRC http://www.braprogram.com/LnIRC/

Macintosh

• IRCle http://www.ircle.com
• MacIRC http://www.macirc.com
• ShadowIRC http://www.shadowirc.com
• Snak http://www.snak.com/Snak.html

Palm Pilot

• PalmIRC http://www.pda.tucows.com/palm/preview/34464.html
• upIRC http://www.smittyware.com/palm/upirc/

WindowsCE

• IrcCE http://www.movsoftware.com/ircce.htm
• PocketChat http://www.sspocketchat.com/

You can try any of the following recommended websites, which provide great introductions to IRC:

www.irc-junkie.org IRC-Junkie is a non-profit website that is maintained by IRC users for IRC users. It provides articles and tutorials that serve as a source of information concerning technical, security as well as amusing aspects of using IRC. www.new2chat.com New2Chat is a great site for chat newbies. Visit here if you need to learn about how IRC works, basic IRC commands, client information, and much more. www.irchelp.org One of the most complete IRC help websites, containing over a thousand help files, FAQs, primers, guides, downloadable clients & scripts, and server lists. www.scriptheaven.net One of the few scripting sites with trojan/backdoor free scripts, bots and add-ons. In here you will also find links, information and multiple resources for mIRC scripts, bots, add-ons plus eggdrops and clients and much more. www.IRC101.org IRC101 is a very clean looking news site. It features IRC news, polls, forums and their own unique IRC stats for the major networks. www.hawkee.com A mIRC script website with hundreds of scripts, addons, popups and bots. ircimages.com IRC Images is a site that pulls urls from all the channels SearchIRC indexes, and displays the most recently added channel topics that contain graphics and shockwave files (SWF) in an easy-to browse format.