Chatting about Sonic on IRC

Since Sonic is so popular, he has also found his way to Internet Relay Chat (IRC). All you need is an IRC program that allows you to connect to an IRC server.

Since most of you use Windows, I suggest getting mIRC is the best choice, since this is the most popular IRC client program at the moment, and very easy to use. You can find it on the Official mIRC Homepage, maintained by Tjerk Vonck, located at http://www.mirc.co.uk. Check it out for information on the latest version, ftp sites, bugs, fixes, links to mIRC-related pages, and IRC in general.

Once you have installed the program, simply click on File, choose Setup, enter a screen name in the Nickname field (what you want to call yourself while on IRC) and another one in the Alternate field (in case your first screen name is already in use by someone else). Entering your Real Name and e-mail address is optional. You should also enable Identd, since almost all IRC networks request it. Enter your nickname as User ID, use UNIX as system and 113 as port.

When all that is done, choose an EFNet-server from the list and click on Connect. If that server won't let you in, simply choose another one until you succeed. Make sure to use EFNet servers only, or you might find the channel empty most of the time. If you live in Germany, by all means try to use an IRC server in America, since the German side of EFNet for some reason isn't connected to the American side anymore since at least two years.

The available Sonic channels at the moment are

To join one of them, simply type
/join #channelname
for example
/join #sonic
For further information about mIRC and IRC in general, check out http://www.mirc.org/ or http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mirc/si.html.

The official SEGA Chat IRC Server:

For all those who haven't bought a Dreamcast yet but want to join the American Dreamcast Chat too (and all those unfortunate souls in Europe who are stuck with the crappy European "Dream Arena" that offers only an iChat applet on HTML basis for chatting), please use the following server:
irc.sega.com port 6667
But don't tell SEGA about it. :)

If the IRC servers listed in the mIRC program won't work for you, here an additional list of servers that you could use:

         irc.wu-wien.ac.at     137.208.3.30  Austria

     yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au      130.194.9.1  Australia
    speech.elec.uow.edu.au   130.130.88.116  Australia
           poc.dfat.gov.au     152.91.70.43  Australia

             irc.belnet.be    193.190.198.2  Belgium

           irc.magic.mb.ca    204.112.14.17  Canada
             irc.mcgill.ca    132.206.27.12  Canada
             irc.cs.mun.ca      134.153.1.2  Canada
          irc.vianet.on.ca    204.50.187.50  Canada
            irc.polymtl.ca      132.207.4.8  Canada

               irc.span.ch     194.51.197.1  Switzerland

         irc.blackened.com   192.195.240.63  USA, Arizona, Tucson
              irc.cris.com      199.3.12.20  USA, Michigan, Bay City
           irc.neosoft.com   198.64.213.130  USA, Texas
      irc.usa.pipeline.com        38.9.10.2  USA, NY, New York
            irc.portal.com    156.151.1.101  USA, California
          irc.voicenet.com    192.204.28.19  USA, PA, Ivyland
         irc.winternet.com   198.174.169.50  USA, MN, Eden Prarie
          irc.colorado.edu   128.138.129.31  USA, Colorado
           irc.rutgers.edu  165.230.224.131  USA, New Jersey
               irc.ais.net     199.0.154.13  USA, Illinois
            irc.bridge.net      204.253.4.4  USA, Florida, Miami
              irc.epix.net    199.224.64.19  USA, Pennsylvania
              irc.gate.net     199.227.0.17  USA, Florida
           irc.phoenix.net       207.43.3.5  USA, Texas, Houston
           irc.stealth.net    206.26.140.20  USA, NY, New York

          irc.felk.cvut.cz   192.108.160.15  Czech Republic
          irc.cis.vutbr.cz   147.229.245.10  Czech Republic

            sunsite.auc.dk    130.225.51.30  Denmark

             irc.clinet.fi      194.100.0.7  Finland
              irc.funet.fi     130.230.1.11  Finland
        irc.freenet.hut.fi   130.233.208.41  Finland
                irc.lpt.fi     193.166.64.3  Finland
               irc.otol.fi    193.64.225.62  Finland
               irc.oulu.fi   130.231.241.30  Finland
               irc.pspt.fi    192.98.38.220  Finland

            irc.eurecom.fr     193.55.112.8  France

                irc.bme.hu     152.66.116.1  Hungary

             irc.biu.ac.il      132.70.1.23  Israel
             irc.tau.ac.il      132.66.16.5  Israel

              irc.isnet.is      193.4.58.52  Iceland

         irc.cselt.stet.it     163.162.4.38  Italy
         irc.ccii.unipi.it    131.114.28.21  Italy

  irc.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp    133.62.128.16  Japan
      irc.kyoto.wide.ad.jp        133.4.8.5  Japan

            irc.agh.edu.pl    149.156.96.12  Poland
          irc.mimuw.edu.pl     148.81.12.44  Poland
             irc.lublin.pl    193.59.55.167  Poland

        irc.dd.chalmers.se    129.16.117.11  Sweden
            irc.swipnet.se    193.12.122.33  Sweden

         irc.fri.uni-lj.si      193.2.72.13  Slovenia
             irc.uni-mb.si     164.8.65.104  Slovenia

      irc.csie.nctu.edu.tw   140.113.17.161  Taiwan
           irc.seed.net.tw   139.175.251.50  Taiwan

       serv.eng.abdn.ac.uk   139.133.221.13  United Kingdom
        stork.doc.ic.ac.uk     146.169.43.2  United Kingdom
         serv.cs.man.ac.uk   130.88.229.190  United Kingdom
       dismayl.demon.co.uk     158.152.1.76  United Kingdom


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