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Main features:
- FREE - no registration fee, no time limit, no nag screen!
- Script editor - including visual form designer
- User profiles - give your friends, family, or pets their own presets
- Server lists - use different nicks or settings on different servers/networks
- Multiple server connections - chat on 10 networks without having to open 10 copies of the program; the window tab bar automatically groups windows by server
- Event sounds - hear kickbans from across the room
- Fully customizable text, fonts, images, and colors
- Fully customizable commands, menus, and toolbars
- DCC whiteboard - shared drawing space with recording and playback
- DCC and TDCC with firewall support - quickly send files and resume broken transfers
- Minimize to tray
- Background pictures and wallpaper
- Bold, underline, italic, 16 million foreground and background colors
- Save settings to registry or INI file - great for running ViRC from a floppy
- Powerful scripting language - The Versus script engine, greatly enhanced since Visual IRC '98, gives scripters access to every aspect of ViRC's operation and appearance.
- International messages - download Spanish and German translations, or make a translation for your favorite language
- Automatic update checking - find out immediately when a new version is released
- ActiveX scripting - aside from ViRC's native language, you can also write script routines in VBScript, JavaScript, Perl, Python, or any other ActiveX scripting language"; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }