The Dubai Chat Room Page - How to Reach channel #Dubai

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The latest version of mIRC is now 5.8 and things have improved dramatically.

A chat channel set up for real life chatting in real time, with none of the update lags seen on Bulletin Boards and WWW chat areas. Sounds too good to be true ? Believe me it isn't. There are hundreds of thousands of us doing it everyday.

Without doubt the best available is mIRC. I have tried them all and nothing beats this. It is easy to download, easy to install, easy to configure, and easy to use.

You need a 32 bit version of mIRC if you are on Windows95/98 or NT. or a 16 bit version if you are on win3.1. Click on the icon below right to download mIRC from the official mIRC site. The 32 bit version download file is called mIRC58t.exe - 1116 KB ( 1,142,272 bytes ) and the 16 bit version download file is called mIRC58s.exe - 951KB ( 973,120 bytes ). Save it to a directory called c:\mirc or d:\mirc for best results. Click here to download -->
The Diagrams below show the installation of mIRC v5.7. Follow the exact same procedure while installing this latest version of 5.8 You will have downloaded a file called mIRC58t.exe ( for win95 or NT) or a file called mirc58s.exe ( for win3.x ). Find this file using Explorer in win95 or File Manager in win3.x, and run this exe file. Below is a section of what will popup.

Press the button, accept the copyright notice, and then you will see this: It will install the mIRC program to the directory c:\mirc or d:\mirc although you will have the option to change the directory by pressing the button. Once your directory is set, press the button.
This is what appears:
And on completion of that: You can tick either of the two boxes shown there, to Read the Help file, and/or launch mIRC immediately (good Idea) and then the button.
After it is installed a box with this icon in it will pop open. Just double click on the icon to start up mIRC, or alternatively run the program called mirc32.exe ( win95 ) or mirc16.exe ( win3.x ) , and the program will open.
You will see this box popup in the middle of your screen. Just click anywhere in that and it will go away. You can untick the box in the bottom left hand corner to stop the box appearing again. For a bit of fun try clicking on Khaled's nose. Or for even more fun type the word ARNIE and see what happens to Khaled's Picture!
After clicking on the image above, you will get this: Now you have to start being a bit creative. First you need to think of a nice bit of information that you want to display about yourself. You put that in the Full Name field. Something like "I love to chat and my email is happy@freemail.com". Then you fill in the E-Mail Address box. Some servers insist you have the real email prefix such as dumbo if your email is dumbo@emirates.net.ae but with most servers just put in anything funny without spaces in the word. Next you have to choose a fictitious Nickname. Think of a nice one here as this is the nickname you will be known by. For example my nickname is Free. Sometimes your nickname is taken and 2 people cannot have the exact same nickname, so put in an Alternative nickname. Mine is Free` and these are the valid characters for a nickname: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 ` ^ - _ ][ }{ \| \ There you go. You can't start your nickname with a number and the maximum length of a nickname is 9 characters in Undernet. Anything else goes. Now next step is as follows. Click on the image to see how I would have filled up the boxes.
Next you choose a chat server to connect to by clicking on the downwards pointing black triangle to the right of the IRC Servers: box, and in the box that opens up, scroll down till you see this appear. You choose the Undernet Server, and then next:
Scroll down and choose either the or the servers, though, many of the others work fine too. The USA based servers tend to give better performance. European and Canadian servers are often quite slow when connecting from U.A.E.
Next you put in another identifier that many people use to check if you are the real you when chatting. It is quite easy to get confused in who you are actually talking to since nicknames are available to the first user that chooses them. You put in your Identifier here in the User ID box. Most people put their preferred nickname in this space but you can put anything else also. Try to limit yourself to 9 characters. Also tick the two boxes that say and .Make sure you leave the System and Listen on port boxes as they are. You must now press the button at the bottom when you finish. Remember, don't use ChooseName, but change it to something you like.


Now The top line will look something like this. Click on the 2nd button from the left on the Button Bar. This is the set up info Box. Click on the image below to see the full screen view if you are interested. Press the connect button, and watch the screen.
You will see in the Status window: and you wait patiently until you are connected and this pops up:
At the top, you type in #Dubai - then click on the button, and then highlight the newly added #Dubai nad click on the button.
And voila, you are now in #Dubai's home channel, and this is what the channel looks like -

A bunch of people in the channel there, and all you need to do to join in is type your line on the bottom line and press the enter key.