Mac irc clients

[player1]

Well, back in the old days of Tribes, when I had Win98, I just dl'd mIRC, and I was all set. There are so many irc clients available now, it seems overwhelming. iChat seems fairly useless for this application, and the freenode page is more reading than I do in a month. So, here's my question: Ircle or Snak? All I want to do is connect to freenode or quakenet. It didn't used to be so much hassle. Am I missing something? I can't believe it was easier in Windows. Is it me, or is iChat kind of lame/useless for this? No irc? There's gotta be a simpler way. This is more stuff to configure than I really have time for.

Geez, is teamspeak gonna be this much trouble too? Dang laptop's got a built-in mic and chat client, why can't I get ahold of fellow players without reading a freaking encyclopedia first? Sheesh...

Suggestions?

Edit: It looks like there's a spot in iChat to change the server and port. But I need a freenode nick and password first. Arrgh! Alright, when in doubt, pull out the manual.

Oh yeah, mini-poll: freenode or quakenet?

Also, is Mac help the most non-gamer-oriented help I've ever seen or what? If I wanted to make a photo album of how schralping a s8r dewd I am, it would be done already. I wish they'd get a clue and release a Macbook bundled with Tremulous and the appropriate freeware/shareware. The gamer's version of the MacBook (since Trem is about what it will run well, from what I can see...). =) Somebody needs to put together a PC-switcher Prima guide. Playing Games on a Mac for Dummies (people who try to play games on a Mac).

which means I need to read up on iWeb now...
do something with the blog besides drag-and-drop
research some MacTrem threads...
another question: is the backport part of the latest Mac build? (20060704.dmg)
it needs to be dl'd and setup separately, no?
another day-and-a-half
then I need to try setting up a server...
still gotta finish the design of my key binds
this game is a full-time job!
next week:
more shotgun practice, and I attempt to learn goon!

four months in
so many questions
QVM?
SVN?
GUID?
cvar?

is this a good keybind system:
1 - granger/sell rifle; buy ckit, larmor
2 - granger+/sell rifle; buy adv ckit, helmet
3 - dretch/rifle
4 - basi/shotgun
5 - basi+/prifle
6 - mara/mdriver
7 - mara+/flamer
8 - goon/chaingun
9 - goon+/lcannon
0 - rant/psaw

F - taunt & medkit?
G - buy nade; itemact nade; echo team_chat:"^2NADE!"

P - build egg/node; echo "build <name>?"
O - barricade/medistat
I - booster/tesla
U - acid_tube/mgturret
; - hive/dcc
L - trapper/armoury
K - overmind/reactor
J - hovel/repeater

, - team_say: DEFEND!!!
. - team_say: ATTACK!!!
/ - team_say: Fall Back/Regroup/GTFOMW!!!
\ - team_say: SORRY!!!/My Bad/No Worries
= - team_say: Yes/Acknowledged/OK/Word!
- - team_say: No/Denied/No_Way/Not!
what do you think?

plus i gotta make two configs
memorize the exes
echo all the keybinds
disable alerts
what else?

[p0m]

Xchat Aqua or install fink and get irssi.

Teamspeex (That's the mac app version) works, but you'll need to make sure you ahve the right version (Intel Mac for intel etc).

[player1]

xchataqua?

or

fink and irssi?

no but me am stupid and lazy and busy
I remember when Dasprid suggested I install Linux to get Trem going...
I'd still be working on that, and wouldn't have played a game yet
thx tho

OK xchataqua don't look too bad
the very mention of error messages and tarballs scares me off
thoughts on the other two clients: Ircle & Snak?

Teamspeex looks promising. thx
there sure is a lotta freeware/shareware/betaware out there for this!
come a long way since '98...
plus I am a total mac n00biuscakez0rz

[TinMan]

Xchat aqua, irssi, or bitchx

[AKAnotu]

search for colloquy on the apple site

[stalefries]

search for colloquy on the apple site

Or... http://colloquy.info/

Hmm, post number 100

[player1]

thanks for the replies, y'all
just in case anyone was wondering
straight from the horse's mouth

it would be nice if the FAQ noted that mIRC does not work on Macs in the IRC section, and maybe suggest a couple of stable alternatives....
(I know, the Mac port is unofficial & unsupported)

thx again

hmm
1 vote for snak
2 for xchataqua or irssi or bitchx
2 for colloquoy
none for ircle?

edit/necro/bump/spam:

@AKAnotu/stalefries:

Are you guys actually using this?

It looks pretty much like OSX, and easy to use and connects to freenode and quakenet.... downsides?

@TinMan: the BitchX page looked pretty much like it was for people who know what the heck they're doing...
that would not be me :/
Colloquoy is the recommended IRC client on the AdiumX site (they do IM not IRC, now)
@TinMan have you tried it?
It looked more my speed....

[welterde]

It looks pretty much like OSX, and easy to use and connects to freenode and quakenet.... downsides?

it doesnt run in an screen, as irssi does?
so i vote for irssi^
but except that its fine

[benmachine]

I used colloquy for a long time but there are bugs and annoyances which eventually drove me away. It's kinda sluggish and big, and the applescript interface is, I swear, totally impossible to work out. So I switched to X-Chat Aqua and love it to bits, it's not as pretty but it gets the job done, and gets it done quickly and properly. Plus perl/C scripts > applescripts. I wrote one myself to get my itunes track.
I'd like irssi but it sounds like effort. I installed xchat non-aqua but it wouldn't work for me.

[Kaleo]

I vote for none.

Colloquy is for me

[player1]

thanks again for the reviews folks
I'm hoping to only have to install two or three beta/free/shareware apps just to connect to quakenet/freenode
thx iChat!!! :|

that makes it 3 xchataqua/irssi vs. 3 colloquoy
time to start a new poll
mini poll
screw snak & ircle
it's
XChatAqua/irssi
OR
Colloquoy
&
why?

[benmachine]

X-Chat Aqua because Colloquy is big and slow and (I think) more memory-intensive than X-Chat. Plus it's been bug-free for me so far, which is not something I can say for Colloquy.

[welterde]

irssi, because its console-based, so you can put into an screen session on a server(and idle 24h a day^^)

[doomagent13]

four months in
so many questions
QVM?
SVN?
GUID?
cvar?

What do you want to know?

is this a good keybind system:
1 - granger/sell rifle; buy ckit, larmor
2 - granger+/sell rifle; buy adv ckit, helmet
3 - dretch/rifle
4 - basi/shotgun
5 - basi+/prifle
6 - mara/mdriver
7 - mara+/flamer
8 - goon/chaingun
9 - goon+/lcannon
0 - rant/psaw

F - taunt & medkit?
G - buy nade; itemact nade; echo team_chat:"^2NADE!"

P - build egg/node; echo "build <name>?"
O - barricade/medistat
I - booster/tesla
U - acid_tube/mgturret
; - hive/dcc
L - trapper/armoury
K - overmind/reactor
J - hovel/repeater

, - team_say: DEFEND!!!
. - team_say: ATTACK!!!
/ - team_say: Fall Back/Regroup/GTFOMW!!!
\ - team_say: SORRY!!!/My Bad/No Worries
= - team_say: Yes/Acknowledged/OK/Word!
- - team_say: No/Denied/No_Way/Not!
what do you think?

plus i gotta make two configs
memorize the exes
echo all the keybinds
disable alerts
what else?

NO!!!!!
Number keys are up to you.  About that 'G' bind, nice base nading bind.

The tried and true nade bind is

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/bind <key> "sell gren; itemact gren; buy gren"I added a teamsay to warn about the grenade, and bound that all to "2".  3 & 4 are enemy s2 & s3 binds, respectively. 5 is yes, 6 is no, and 7 is enemy om/reac down.  Just my number keys.  Depending on your favorite server, if it has a custom qvm with some sort of command that tells you your base status, I would put that on 1.

I unbound anything I dont use, left 'M', and put jetpack to 'V'.

For irc:
Colloquy FTW!!