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,

-- Brian McLean (bmclean84@hotmail.com), October 14, 1999

Answers

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.

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), October 14, 1999.

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. :)

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 14, 1999.

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.

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@mail.com), October 14, 1999.

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.

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), October 14, 1999.

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.

-- Crash (crash@tcp.co.uk), October 14, 1999.

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!!!! )

-- Ian Gledhill (IanG@amiganet.org), October 21, 1999.

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

Hola fellow Amigaian. :)

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 21, 1999.

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! ;-) )

-- Ian Gledhill (IanG@amiganet.org), October 21, 1999.

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. :-)

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 21, 1999.