Ircle

Infobox_Software
name = Ircle


caption = Ircle running under Mac OS X v10.4 showing several open windows.
developer = Onno Tijdgat
latest_release_version = 3.5a6
latest_release_date = November 17, 2007
operating_system = Mac OS X, Mac OS
genre = IRC client
license = Proprietary
website = http://www.ircle.com/

Ircle (formerly rendered as "IRCle") is an IRC client developed by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. The client is scriptable with AppleScript, can support multiple channels and servers, and up to ten distinct connections at once.

Ircle is shareware. Upgrades are free.

Ircle was originally written in Pascal by Olaf Titz [http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/dev/src/ircle-151-p.hqx.txt] in 1993 and the source code released under the GPL. After version 1 Titz sold the code to Tijdgat who continued development privately, rewriting it in C and updating it for the then-new Power Macs. Ircle 3.0 was released in 1994.

Tijdgat announced in December 2005 that extensive work was underway to update Ircle for the new iMacs with CPUs made by Intel. These (unspecified) upgrades will be backward compatible and thus usable on iMacs with older CPUs. However, development for older (pre Mac OS X) versions of the Mac OS will cease. (A characteristic of Ircle development had been that the program had thus far remained usable on older versions of the Mac OS.)

On September 21, 2006 the Intel compatible (universal) version was released with a number of new features.

External links

*http://www.ircle.com/
* [http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Abstracts/dev/src/HyperArchive.html Ircle 1.5.1 code at the Info-Mac HyperArchive]