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Visual IRC

Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients, nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included IRC script, with the result that the program s behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source code.

= History =

*Visual IRC (16-bit) - Released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, written by MeGALiTH. This computer program had many built-in features, but it was also scriptable with VPL (ViRC Programming Language), the predecessor to ViRCScript and Versus programming language.

*Visual IRC 96 (and later Visual IRC 97, Visual IRC 98) - Released in 1996, written by MeGALiTH. This was the first 32-bit version of ViRC, written for Windows 9x/NT. Many of the features that were built into 16-bit ViRC were handled by the default script in ViRC 96. ViRC 98 contained some code contributed by Mr2001, particularly enhancements to the ViRCScript engine. The scripting programming language was incompatible with the earlier version. In later versions, voice chat and video conferencing features were added.

:Development of the second incarnation slowed down, and by 2000, Visual IRC appeared to be dead. The original author MeGALiTH (Adrian Cable) passed the source code to a user, Mr2001 (Jesse McGrew), who had previously contributed some code, and who had secretly been developing a clone called Bisual IRC (BIRC). Rather than restarting development of the ViRC 98 code base, he merged some of ViRC 98 s features into BIRC and released it as Visual IRC 2.

*Visual IRC 2 - First released in 2001, written by Mr2001 (just a coincidence!). This version s Versus programming language scripting language is based on ViRCScript, but internally it has been almost totally rewritten. In fact, ViRC 2 only shares a few hundred lines of code with ViRC 98. The voice and video conferencing features were removed in this version because the library (computer science) used to implement them were no longer supported.

Much of the source code to BIRC, ViRC 2, and the related utilities has been released through the project s web site.

=External links=

*[http://www.visualirc.net/ Visual IRC homepage] *[http://www.visualirc.net/features.php List of features and screenshots] *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualirc/ SourceForge project page] *[http://www.visualscripts.com/ Collection of ViRC scripts]