Disclaimer Introduction |
From the front page, click the "Download mIRC" link on the left, then choose the download link which is geographically closest to you - for me, this would be mIRC 6.16 in the UK. It doesn't really matter which link you choose unless you have a very slow connection, the file isn't very big. After downloading, just run the installer, hitting OK to everything. At the last screen, check "Run mIRC" and hit OK, and the program should start up. The first thing that you will see is this popup:
It's not necessary to register, the program will run exactly the same if you don't, but the pop-up will keep appearing. You can pay if you feel that the guy deserves your money, though. For now, just wait for "Continue" to become available, and then click it. A new pop-up appears:
Type in your nickname, and a secondary nickname (this is in case your primary nickname is already in use) and any other relevant details - the email address can be false if you want. Now you need to choose the server that you want to connect to - hit the button circled in red to progress to this screen:
Simply click on the top drop-down box, and change the server to "EntertheGame". The box below it should automatically change to "EntertheGame: Random server". Now all you need to do is connect to the server you have selected.. press the "Connect to Server" button. You should get some scrolling text, and maybe some beeping that looks something like:
After this, you should get a lot of black text containing various details about the ETG servers, the message of the day and the ETG legal disclaimer. You are now connected to the EntertheGame IRC servers. The last step is to join a channel! As an example, here is how we would connect to the Titan channel. This is easy - just type in the bar:
And you should see a new tab open, and you join the channel. The user list is on the left, you can see who else is in the room. The people with an @ in front of their names are the admins - apart from Chanserv, who is a bot which aids channel control. To talk to the channel, just type in the bar and hit Enter while in the channel tab. To alert anyone you want to talk to, you can usually just type their name (in mIRC, type the first couple of letters and then pressing Tab will do it for you). This will alert their highlights, if they have them on, and they'll come see what's happening if they're around. To enable your own highlights, go to Options, and navigate to the screen shown:
As you can see, if anyone says "mi5.ons", I will be highlighted. The "Enable Highlights" box must be checked for highlights to work. Click "Add" to bring up this screen:
Now you can add your highlight in the top box, and specify what you want mIRC to do when someone says that word. I have mine set to beep and flash orange. Notice the *spoon* highlight in the previous screen. The * is a wildcard - it can be anything. Thus if anyone says "spoon", whether by itself or inside another word (like ManofSpoon, teaspoon, etc) I will be highlighted. To talk to any user privately, double click their name in the user list, and a new tab should open up, called whatever their nickname is. You are now talking to them in a private message or PM, and no one else can read it. I hope to see some more of you guys in the Titan channel, it's great to hang out and chat about the games played and stuff. Drop by sometime, you can leave IRC running while you're playing, it takes few system resources. Connecting via UT2004's built-in client It's also possible to connect through UT2004... hit Join Game at the main menu, then choose the Chat tab to get this screen:
Just hit the Connect button to connect to the server, you should get the same scrolling text as before, except without the colored parts - just the message of the day and disclaimer. Finally, change the box which says "#ut" to the channel you wish to join, say "#titanonslaught" and hit Join! Your IRC nick when using UT2004 will be the same as your in game player nick, simple as that. Written by Spoonman |
