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Dear gIRC users,

I would like to thank the previous gIRC team for handing over the Gamers.IRC to continue it. And everything went so smoothly.

About me: My name is Patrick (on the IRC with Nick Thoraxx), I am 34 years old and live in Lower Saxony.

The homepage and the forum run as usual under the well-known addresses and can now be used again. It is now actively being further developed at Gamers.IRC.... read more

Dear gIRC users,

now the time is over. Gamers.IRC, which Felensis launched in 1999 and developed over many years, is being discontinued.
The deadline of May 31, 2020 to find interested People for the project has passed without success.

Our Homepage and Forum will be shut down - the new project page is:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gamers-irc/
On this page, gIRC is kept inactive in standby mode and you find the latest version for download.
gIRC is not actively developed further, its use is therefore at the user's own risk due to the fact that it is not up-to-date and possible security gaps.... read more

Hey guys,

you may have noticed that Gamers.IRC has become a bit quieter in recent years. There are several reasons for this, not least the shift of IRC from the gaming back to the development scene. But also we, the team behind Gamers.IRC, have changed. Since Felensis put us in charge of this great project over 15 years ago, our own lives have moved on just as much as the world of IRC: We simply don't have enough free time left to fulfill this responsibility.... read more

We, the Gamers.IRC team, wish all users a merry Christmas 2019 with their beloved ones and a happy new year. Of course, we will continue working on the next version of Gamers.IRC in 2019!

We ask for your understanding for the long delays in the development of the next version due to the real life of our developers. As known, Gamers.IRC is developed free of charge and in our spare time.

Good morning, Gamers.IRC friends,

only three years after the previous Gamers.IRC version 6.07 we’ve finally made it: Gamers.IRC 6.10 is ready!

Aside from the newest mIRC version 7.46 we also dare the jump into the modern age with support for emojis and Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 without giving up any of your favorite features.

You can find a complete list of changes with the downloads in our download area, the changes for mIRC 7.46 are listed on the mIRC website.... read more

We’re almost there: The second and probably last beta version of Gamers.IRC 6.10 was released to our beta testers a couple of hours ago. That means that the work on version 6.10 can be considered almost done. 😀

So soon – when it’s ready – we will be ready to deploy Gamers.IRC 6.10 over all known channels. Of course we will keep you up-to-date here and in our newsletter.... read more

Dear Gamers.IRC users and friends,

we are truly sorry for the delay of Gamers.IRC 6.10. The Summer of 2016 and a couple of random liabilities outside the Gamers.IRC project have distracted us from finishing the next great release in reasonable time. However, as you can see, we still haven’t abandoned your favorite IRC client.... read more

Hi, friends and users of Gamers.IRC,

don’t worry – we haven’t forgot about you. In fact, the work on the next version of Gamers.IRC, versioned 6.10, makes a slow but steady progress. We improved quite a lot of things inside Gamers.IRC and we are currently busy polishing our changes. Beta testers can already test the first prerelease version – if you want to join us as a beta tester, please read our forum for details.... read more

Dear Gamers.IRC users,

we’re still working hard on the upcoming Gamers.IRC release. Don’t fear, it will happen soon.

If you’re interested in using the latest mIRC version – mIRC 7.41 (http://www.mirc.com/news.html) has been released in February -, simply follow our guide (http://forum.gamersirc.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1231) to use it with your existing Gamers.IRC installation. Remember to exit Gamers.IRC first!... read more

You might think there’s not much happening here – but you can already stay tuned for the upcoming Gamers.IRC which will contain a couple of valuable improvements.

For now, the whole Gamers.IRC team wishes all users a merry Christmas and a happy jump into the next year.

The Gamers.IRC team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2014!

Good evening, dear users,

mIRC 7.32 is out, and so is Gamers.IRC 6.07. We made a couple of small improvements and added two new functions: You can register with IRC bots like Q and NickServ more easily now and view and change the list of automatically joined channels more comfortably. Furthermore, we added a new About tab concerning the IRC protocol’s 25th anniversary. Have a look and see how everything began! Just enter /about in Gamers.IRC or open the dialog from the menu.... read more

Dear users and friends,

don’t worry – GamersIRC.net is temporarily not as beautiful as you are familiar with. The reason for this are technical difficulties we hopefully can work out soon.

But there is also good news! For a couple of months we hid in our dark programming basements again to bring you something new:

The recently published Gamers.IRC 6.06 comes with a couple of Windows-8-related improvements, including a better installation system and some bug fixes. Also the new mIRC 7.29 which contains a few interesting changes itself was added: http://www.mirc.com/news.html... read more

24. December 2012

We, the Gamers.IRC team, wish all users a merry Christmas 2011 with their beloved ones and a happy new year.

21. December 2012

Using the new Windows 8 it may occur that a pure mIRC is started when you try to start Gamers.IRC. This is because – even if you installed it as admin – mIRC has no priviledges to access the Program Files folder.

This can be solved by granting mIRC administrator priviledges. In order to do that, please open the Gamers.IRC program folder (where you had installed it), right-click the file mirc.exe and choose “Properties”. A new window should appear, containing the tab “Compatibility”. At the bottom of that tab you can find the checkbox which automatically grants the needed rights to mIRC (and, thus, Gamers.IRC). After restarting mIRC the problem should be fixed.... read more

30. October 2012

Dear visitors and Gamers.IRC users,

maybe you have noticed the technical difficulties with the Gamers.IRC website during the past few weeks. They are mostly fixed now, but it is not possible to download Gamers.IRC via the IRC itself yet. We hope to be able to work around that issue soon.

For now we have a new toy for you:

Gamers.IRC 6.05 is released!

Most changes were made inside the engines. Among a couple of other changes we included the new mIRC 7.27 which fixes some bugs. Major changes will follow in one of the upcoming Gamers.IRC versions, stay tuned.... read more

21. June 2012

Dear Gamers.IRC users,

we recently received queries if we still worked on Gamers.IRC. We care about your worry about the future of Gamers.IRC, but be assured: If we would ever decide to retire from developing Gamers.IRC, we would let you know that in time.

Since Gamers.IRC 6.03 had been released, we continued coding, so today we can show you the new Gamers.IRC 6.04. This version primarily fixes small inconsistencies using an IRC bouncer, especially ZNC support had several issues. Also we added a new extension, the Setup Tree Editor, which enables you to change the symbols in the Gamers.IRC Setup dialog tree.... read more

28. January 2012 by Tuxman

Dear users,

we recently received a couple of freaked out comments saying that the installed virus scanner reports an infection by Gamers.IRC or its installer.

That alert is wrong. Before we release it, each new Gamers.IRC version is checked for possible malware which could have slipped in with VirusTotal as we – just like you – are not interested in being infected, so we can assure you that we don’t spread any known or recognized malware. The fact that some virus scanners already report mIRC as such is sad but known to us.... read more

24. December 2011 by Tuxman

We, the Gamers.IRC team, wish all users a merry Christmas 2011 with their beloved ones.

10. November 2011 by Sentinel

Dear users,

for the upcoming Gamers.IRC releases we are hiring new coders, beta testers and translators.

Required skills are some free time, creativity, (optionally) coding experience in MSL, TCL, MTS, HTML/PHP, or Delphi. Translators should fluently speak a language which is not a part of Gamers.IRC yet.

If you’d wish to apply, send us some email containing some information about you and why you think you could do it. Our address is contact1 [at] gamersirc [dot] net.... read more

24. October 2011 by Tuxman

Dear users,

we thankfully enjoy your bug reports. Gamers.IRC 6.02 had some small problems indeed which we had noticed too late.

Therefore, we have just released Gamers.IRC 6.03, fixing some things and equipped with the new mIRC 7.22 which fixes some things itself.

A list of changes in Gamers.IRC 6.03 is available with the downloads in our download area, the mIRC 7.22 changes can be found on mIRC’s website.
http://gamersirc.net/eng/girc#download http://www.mirc.com/news.html... read more

11. September 2011 by Tuxman

Dear users and prospective users,

Gamers.IRC 6.02 is now available!

Unfortunately there have been a couple of problems in version 6.01 like a crash in our Winamp control. These problems should be history now. Additionally we applied some tweaks here and there, and with “Daily Garfield” there is even a new add-on available for download.

If you want to share an add-on with us too, use the “Submit scripts” link in Gamers.IRC or click here: http://gamersirc.net/eng/contact/submit-scripts/
We appreciate every single submission!... read more

10. April 2011 by Tuxman

Dear users,

since we had upgraded Gamers.IRC to the mIRC 7 base, our internal update functionality is unfortunately broken a bit, so if you use Gamers.IRC 6.00 and want to update to Gamers.IRC 6.01, you will need to use the manual update installer which you can find here. http://gamersirc.net/eng/girc/#download

The problem will be solved in the next Gamers.IRC version, the version after that version is updateable internally again.... read more

03. April 2011 by Tuxman

Dear Gamers.IRC users,

regardless of the long term of testing, Gamers.IRC 6.00 had some tiny bugs, sorry for that.

Because of those we decided to release a new version today:
Gamers.IRC 6.01 fixes most of the regressions in version 6.00.

Among the several bugfixes we also added the new mIRC 7.19 which fixes some of its internal bugs, too. You can obtain Gamers.IRC 6.01 from the download area via web browser or eMule. http://gamersirc.net/eng/girc#download... read more

01. February 2011 by Tuxman

Dear visitors,

with the mIRC 7.1x release many things have changed in the mIRC world. Also Gamers.IRC was prospecting huge changes and we were preparing for a bunch of work. That work is now, finally, done, and today we proudly present the new Gamers.IRC 6.00.

Among the most important changes is the new mIRC 7.x base, a reworked settings dialog, support for the popular ZNC bouncers and many tiny bugfixes. We recommend you a peek into the change log before you download it. http://gamersirc.net/eng/girc/changelog/... read more