Chat... Take 2!

Brian McLean · Post by **Brian McLean** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

All right gang, it's been about a year since the whole chat idea has been tried, yes? MARP's grown a lot since then and I think a channel would work, now... (Assuming that's why it died in the first place, if it was over some strife or something I'll just be making an ass of myself, but hey! Life's more fun this way.

Anyway, just letting everyone know that I will be hanging about on EFNet on #marp as Taz or something like that. Stop on by and we'll find something to talk about. Or if not, I can flex my pecs like Super Macho Man! Top that!



Cheers,

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Chris Parsley · Post by **Chris Parsley** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

Idea here,
perhaps MARP chat died because it was on Mirc, instead of something
more accessible to all, like a java chat room or something to that
regard. If we want a chat room for MARP, there are many free sites
that will provide one.

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Dave Kaupp · Post by **Dave Kaupp** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

Chris.


There are some java based IRC clients out there that you could
connect to effnet.



Here is one, just change the default channel name to #marp.
http://www.kernel-panic.com/irc.html?



I've seen some betters ones, this is just one I know about off the
top of my head.



PS: for everyone, I'm rewd on the channel.

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Zwaxy · Post by **Zwaxy** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

The MARP channel which failed was on an IRC server with a Java client interface linked from the page, so that's not the problem. Maybe the problem is that we'd all rather play games than chat in our spare time?


Chris.

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Chris Parsley · Post by **Chris Parsley** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

I am not saying anything is wrong with Mirc, heck I personally have
many channels I am on. The problem is, that, as MARP continues to
expand, more and more of the people we will draw in will be people
who don't know as much about emulation and computers, and something
like connection to Mirc will be very, very foreign to them, and they
won't. Something like a text based, or java based chat would be a lot
easier to draw more people into a chat discussion.

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Crash · Post by **Crash** » Thu Oct 14, 1999 12:30 pm

Heck, mIRC or Pirch or whatever you want to use is a complete doddle
to set up. I'd say if someone can record a game in mame, they can use
irc. There's usually 50,000 people online around the network, so ok
it's still a minority thing(!) compared to ICQ etc.



If anyone struggles that badly I'll even help them set up mIRC.



Crash.

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Ian Gledhill · Post by **Ian Gledhill** » Thu Oct 21, 1999 12:30 pm

Sounds like a great idea - and I'd love to give it a go.
But because I'm behind a firewall, I can't get through port 6666-7000
at all (I can do 5555, which is fine for my amiganet irc'ing, 'cos I
know the sysop, but is no good for efnet because no-one uses that port
there).
Are there remote IRC clients around, kind of web-based ones that
create the connection on port 6667 at *their* end rather than at mine?



BTW, Hi to everyone here. I got my HotRod joystick today so expect
many hi scores (heh heh!).



See you on the hi-score table.... (though it seems to be down at the
moment...)



(BTW, for those that feel surrounded by computer programmers - I'm a
computer game programmer! Muuhahahahahaaa!!!! )

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Dave Kaupp · Post by **Dave Kaupp** » Thu Oct 21, 1999 12:30 pm

I posted a link to a web/java based irc client a few message
previous to this one.



Hola fellow Amigaian.

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Ian Gledhill · Post by **Ian Gledhill** » Thu Oct 21, 1999 12:30 pm

Fraid the link posted earlier is no good - it's just a Java applet
that runs on the client side: i.e. here behind the firewall.



I need an IRC client that runs on the *server* side which I connect to
on port 77 (or whatever http: is), otherwise it can't connect as port
6667 is still being firewalled....



Tricky, huh?



(BTW - good to see other Amigans here - must be because we share good
taste in games and don`t get fooled by all the 3D nonsense around
these days!

)

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Dave Kaupp · Post by **Dave Kaupp** » Thu Oct 21, 1999 12:30 pm

Interesting, I just tried it an it shows the me as as coming from the
host that has the java client.



[09:01] ApircUser (user9842@209.75.98.3) joined #marP.



I wonder if the java irc is using another port other than 80 to
return the information. I'll see if I can find something else to run
on my machine at home.



(PS: I tried playing games in windows but spent more time crashing or
recovering from crashing or getting my sound card to work or getting
my video card to work, than actually playing games so I gave up after
6 weeks.

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