Sorry to hear about your continued troubles with AmIRC. Must be something really wrong. For alternate clients, do a search on your favorite Aminet web site for "IRC client" without the quotes. There are quite a few that show up.
-- Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morgan Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: [amirc] Re: AmIRC crashes horribly > On 29/08/2003, you wrote: > > > The same thing happens on my A4000T (specs here - > > http://mikerye.homeip.net/about_my_computers.html). I believe it's a > > bug in the "current" version of AmIRC. It hasn't been updated in a > > long time. I think the only thing you can do is try an older > > version. I believe you can find older versions in the "old" > > directory on VaporWare's FTP site (ftp.vapor.com). > > > > Well I have tried every version available on ftp.vapor.org, right back > to the oldest (v2.2). Same result every time, a lethal crash that > completely corrupts my memory and on one occasion even unvalidated > my entire hard drive. Every partition, and I use SmartFileSystem!!! > > Fortunately I was able to repair it without error. > > Since I ran the program from RAM the only partition it should be even > trying to write to is my System partition as this has ENVARC: on it. > > I then took out all my accelerator and additional hardware, so that I > was running a bare 1200. I then put in a old 40MB HD (using FFS). On this I > installed nothing but OS3.1, MUI, and AmIRC. > > Ran it, saved prefs - crash, unvalidated HD, corrupted memory. > > I have no other problems even close to this magnitude with any > other software, especially nothing capable of unvalidating an entire > SFS HD. > > So I'm come to conclusion that either I have a really wierd problem > with my motherboard, or that there is something seriously wrong > somewhere in AmIRC. > > So I'm not going to try anymore, it's just not worth it. Can anyone > suggest an alternate IRC client for the Amiga? > > -Morgan >
