mIRC section

Welcome to my corner of mIRC-related stuff. Some of the things here are pretty old and only here for historical reasons, but most of it is still usable (and used!) today.

Subpage: the mIRC Internals Wiki (email me for an account)

Add-on packages

Name Description Updated

chanlinks.zip Customize channel name hotlink behavior 09/2006

Misc. scripts

Name Description Updated

authexec.mrc Look up someone's auth and execute a command when done 09/2003

charmap.mrc Dialog that imitates Windows Charmap (screenshot) 01/2004

cidr.mrc Display and convert CIDR blocks and their properties 06/2005

iml.mrc Keep track of list channel modes such as +e and +I 11/2003

ip2country.mrc IP address to two-letter country code conversion 01/2011

...ip2country.db Database for ip2country.mrc, put it in the same directory 12/2018

isupport.mrc Store and later retrieve information from the 005 server numeric 10/2003

localinfo.mrc Set your external IP in mIRC, even if behind a router+bouncer 10/2003

nslookup.mrc Perform all kinds of DNS queries (e.g. IPv6), bypassing mIRC's /dns 09/2006

...nslookup.dll Optional DLL to look up the nameservers Windows uses 07/2005

perform.mrc Simple perform management through commands 09/2003

queue.mrc Generic queue creation/management 09/2006

shoutcast.mrc Retrieve basic information from a shoutcast server 07/2005

spamcalc.mrc Host spam value calculation - mIRC port of spamcalc 12/2003

...spamcalc-data.zip The data files needed for spamcalc (including Garion's original Perl script) 01/2014

tcp-ip.mrc Mostly line-based TCP connect/listen script 01/2004

upnp.mrc Add, delete and enumerate UPnP NAT entries 12/2005

url.mrc Various URL-related functions: URL parsing, encoding/decoding... 01/2005

Small snippets

Name Description Updated

float32.mrc Interpret 32-bit floating point values 10/2011

killdrone.mrc Crash Drefir (and variants) drones as they join channels 11/2006

pedump.mrc Dump the function import and export tables of EXE/DLL files 05/2021

stime.mrc Get the IRC server's unixtime 07/2005

week.mrc Get the week number from a unix time value 01/2005

DLLs and stuff

Name Description Updated

devices.exe List the reserved DOS names that mIRC won't accept in filenames 08/2021

fullscr.dll Detect fullscreen, screensaver, and DirectX exclusive-mode windows 03/2006

idna.dll Encode and decode international domain names 10/2011

io.dll (mirc 6) Catch, block and fake any command from and to the IRC server 10/2008

io.dll (mirc 7) Catch, block and fake any command from and to the IRC server 07/2015

...chaninfo.mrc Display one-line size/mode/topic/etc information about other channels 03/2006

...kpart.mrc Part a channel without closing the channel window 07/2005

iphlpapi.dll Workaround for mIRC 6.16 (and 6.17!) crash in iphlpapi.dll 07/2005

ping.dll Send ICMP Echo packets, to ping and/or traceroute IP addresses 03/2006

power.dll Get notifications about suspend/resume power changes 09/2011

priority.dll Set and retrieve the priority class of the current mIRC instance 09/2006

sha2.dll SHA-2 family of hashing functions 10/2011

sigmirc.exe Send a signal to running mIRC processes, from the command line 03/2006

spaces.dll (mirc 6) Display text, get input, send commands, all without losing spaces 10/2008

spaces.dll (mirc 7) Display text, get input, send commands, all without losing spaces 11/2024

spopup.dll Create simple popup menus 03/2006

table.dll Create table (listview report) dialog controls 03/2008

Other

Webform to safely decode $decode-worms

Fixedsys Excelsior 2.00 patched to display $chr(160) and underline, and a better version

Some information about QuakeNet's /who command

Picture of mIRC being used to visualize TCP packet flow

Updates log

Date Changes

06-11-2024 mIRC 7.78 released! Updated spaces.dll.

11-06-2024 mIRC 7.77 released! Updated spaces.dll.

12-01-2024 mIRC 7.76 released! Updated spaces.dll. Once more, this update took longer because mIRC's new internal reworkings broke almost everything. And, once more, if mIRC continues to change heavily between releases internally (due to compiler optimizations), the future for spaces.dll will be bleak.

27-08-2023 mIRC 7.75 released! Updated spaces.dll.

02-08-2023 mIRC 7.74 released! Updated spaces.dll.

18-06-2023 mIRC 7.73 released! Updated spaces.dll.

27-11-2022 mIRC 7.72 released! Updated spaces.dll.

01-10-2022 mIRC 7.71 released! Updated spaces.dll.

18-07-2022 mIRC 7.69 released! Updated spaces.dll.

02-04-2022 mIRC 7.68 released! Updated spaces.dll.

02-10-2021 mIRC 7.67 released! Updated spaces.dll.

30-08-2021 Updated devices.exe to support today's larger device names lists.

29-06-2021 mIRC 7.66 released! Updated spaces.dll.

08-05-2021 mIRC 7.65 released! Updated spaces.dll.

11-12-2020 mIRC 7.64 released! Updated spaces.dll.

17-08-2020 mIRC 7.63 released! Updated spaces.dll.

29-07-2020 mIRC 7.62 released! Updated spaces.dll.

02-03-2020 mIRC 7.61 released! Updated spaces.dll.

09-02-2020 mIRC 7.59 released! Updated spaces.dll.

23-12-2019 Updated pedump.mrc snippet, with both a bugfix and a small improvement.

28-07-2019 mIRC 7.58 released! Updated spaces.dll. My apologies for the delay--internal reworkings of mIRC made this update much harder than usual. If mIRC continues to change its internals substantially in upcoming versions, I will have no choice but to retire spaces.dll altogether.. For now everything should work again.

28-07-2019 mIRC 7.57 released! Updated spaces.dll.

06-07-2019 mIRC 7.56 released! Updated spaces.dll.

09-02-2019 mIRC 7.55 released! Updated spaces.dll.

29-12-2018 Updated ip2country database.

21-12-2018 mIRC 7.54 released! Updated spaces.dll.

01-12-2018 mIRC 7.53 released! Updated spaces.dll.

03-03-2018 mIRC 7.52 released! Updated spaces.dll. Note that with the introduction of $parms, 'input' is now deprecated.

19-09-2017 mIRC 7.51 released! Updated spaces.dll.

26-05-2017 mIRC 7.49 released! Updated spaces.dll.

16-04-2017 mIRC 7.48 released! Updated spaces.dll.

21-01-2017 mIRC 7.47 released! Updated spaces.dll.

11-01-2017 Updated ip2country database.

02-08-2016 mIRC 7.46 released! Updated spaces.dll.

25-04-2016 mIRC 7.45 released! Updated spaces.dll.

25-03-2016 mIRC 7.44 released! Updated spaces.dll.

03-08-2015 mIRC 7.43 released! Updated spaces.dll.

24-07-2015 Updated io.dll one final time upon request.

17-07-2015 mIRC 7.42 released! Updated spaces.dll. With mIRC's new support for PARSELINE, io.dll has been retired!

28-02-2015 mIRC 7.41 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

25-01-2015 Updated ip2country database.

27-11-2014 mIRC 7.38 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

14-08-2014 mIRC 7.36 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

21-06-2014 mIRC 7.34 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll, sorry about the delay.

30-01-2014 The original spamcalc website died, so I've put up a copy of data files necessary for the script.

25-05-2013 mIRC 7.32 released! Updated.. you know the drill.

17-01-2013 mIRC 7.29 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

20-10-2012 mIRC 7.27 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

28-07-2012 Updated ip2country database.

16-06-2012 mIRC 7.25 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

16-10-2011 Added sha2.dll.

14-10-2011 mIRC 7.22 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

10-10-2011 Updated idna.dll to unicode upon request.

07-03-2011 Added power.dll.

07-03-2011 mIRC 7.19 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

01-01-2011 Happy new year! Updated ip2country database - however, it has grown too big for the old format, so it uses a new format, and for that the ip2country script has been updated too.

18-12-2010 mIRC 7.17 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

08-11-2010 mIRC 7.15 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

16-10-2010 mIRC 7.14 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll, although admittedly a bit late, sorry about that.

31-07-2010 mIRC 7.1 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll. I've left the non-unicode, mIRC v6 versions of both dlls up as well, not in the least because I myself am still using those.

02-05-2010 A preliminary version of spaces.dll for mIRC 7.02 beta22 is now available.

18-10-2008 mIRC 6.35 released, updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

14-10-2008 The mIRC Internals Wiki is back! And it only took me a little over two months.

08-08-2008 mIRC 6.34 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll. The mIRC Internals Wiki will be down for a short while (week or so), sorry about that...

18-07-2008 mIRC 6.33 released! Once again, updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

20-06-2008 Updated ip2country database.

21-05-2008 mIRC 6.32 released! As usual, updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

24-03-2008 Added some features to table.dll.

01-01-2008 Happy new year! Updated ip2country database.

01-11-2007 mIRC 6.31 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll.

15-09-2007 Updated io.dll as well, sorry for the delay.

20-08-2007 mIRC 6.3 released! Updated spaces.dll, io.dll will follow later.

05-05-2007 Yup, busy times, so I don't have anything to release.. Updated ip2country database.

23-11-2006 mIRC 6.21 released! Updated io.dll and spaces.dll accordingly.

19-11-2006 Added killdrone.mrc snippet. Updated ip2country database.

04-09-2006 Webserver died, moved to new hoster; had to restore from backups so let me know if anything is not up-to-date. Also added/updated a few new things.

15-05-2006 Updated table.dll.

21-03-2006 Added fullscr.dll, ping.dll, and a pedump snippet. That's going to be all for a while.

11-03-2006 Added table.dll. Modified sigmirc.exe's communication approach.

09-03-2006 Finally released the io.dll-based chaninfo.mrc.

08-03-2006 Added a patched version of Fixedsys Excelsior, the Unicode version of Fixedsys.

06-03-2006 Added spopup.dll. Improved io.dll.

18-02-2006 mIRC 6.17 released! Updated io.dll, spaces.dll and nslookup.mrc accordingly.

21-11-2005 Applied two small fixes to nslookup.mrc.

16-11-2005 I'm rather busy lately, sorry for that.. Added upnp.mrc, though.

27-08-2005 Still no time to finish the new stuff so I removed their entries for now. Added devices.exe.

18-07-2005 Updated shoutcast.mrc to make it a bit more user-friendly

12-07-2005 Added kpart.mrc and stime.mrc snippets

06-07-2005 Some of the new scripts aren't actually here yet, please have a little patience. :)

06-07-2005 Finally a new webpage!