Why use ViRC 1.1 over the competition?

What competition - who else offers real time video/audio conferencing over IRC...

ViRC combines top-notch functionality and features found in few other IRC clients with unparalleled ease of use.

Some IRC clients present the user with a visually-appealing interface which is easy to use. However, the actual client itself is not very powerful, and the experienced IRC user quickly becomes frustrated at the lack of scripting, or the limited customizability.

Other clients go to the opposite extreme. They include a powerful scripting language and are highly flexible, however, they appear very daunting, even hostile, to the average IRC user, and their built-in capabilities may be limited, as functionality is controlled by user-written scripts, which the novice would have no experience with.

ViRC '97 brings you the best of both worlds - and real-time audio chatting and video conferencing too.

It features undoubtedly one of the easiest interfaces ever seen on an IRC application, and makes simple customization easy for even the most novice of users. However, beneath the surface lies the most powerful scripting engine ever written for an IRC application, ViRCScript, which experienced users can employ to extend the functionality of the client in any way they wish, releasing their scripts to other, possibly less experienced users for them to benefit too.

ViRC '97 also includes a great deal of built-in functionality that is either not present in other clients, or only available through the use of add-in scripts. For example, ViRC '97 allows you to connect to multiple servers simultaneously, and also features a built-in XDCC server for creating an IRC file server, a feature only available in most other clients as an add-on script.

Related Topics:
Video Chat - Visual IRC Help