Instructions for setting up mIRC:

First, download mIRC from this link: http://www.mirc.com/get.html

Now, install the files and run mIRC. The first thing you will see when you open the program is this box:



The "Full Name" and "Email Address" fields do not have to be entered accurately. The "Nickname" field, as well as "Alternative," however, are necessary. Obviously, you enter in "Nickname" the nick you desire to go by in chat. "Alternative" is what you will go by if the first name is in use already.

Next, click the "Servers" option under "Connect." It will take you to here:



The server #AGN is located on does not exist in this list. You can delete all of these manually, but it will take a lot of clicking the "Delete" button, so for now, simply click "Add" and fill in the information seen below:



If your nickname is registered, you may enter the nick's password in the password field. The "Group" field is to be ignored.

Now click "Add." You should be taken back to the list of servers, and "Bladerock" should be highlighted like so:



Click "Select." You will be returned to the window where your name, email, nick, and alt nick are asked for. Before you click "OK," click the "Options" option beneath "Servers." You should arrive at this page:



"Connect on startup" will not be checked by default. Check this option so that you will not have to manually connect to the server when you start.

Click the "Connect" option above servers again, click "OK" once there, and you should be connected to the Bladerock server. If you're using a Windows computer, you may see this message from your firewall:



If so, simply click to "Allow access." (NOTE: The options may be "Unblock" and "Keep blocking" on an XP computer. In this scenario, select "Unblock.")

Now, a dialogue titled "mIRC Favorites" should appear, and it should look like this:



Select "#AllNiteCafe," scroll to the bottom of the list, hold in the Shift key, and select "#Worldchat." Then click "Delete." There! You've easily deleted a huge list of useless channels that probably don't exist elsewhere anyway! Why couldn't deleting the useless list of servers have been this easy?

Now that that is done, click the "Add" button to add your own channel to the list. To use #AGN as an example, fill out the following information exactly as it appears in the image:



Click "OK." Feel free to repeat this for any other channels on Bladerock that you frequent. When you are finished and return to the favorites list, you can uncheck "Pop up favorites on connect" so that the Favorites dialogue does not appear every time you open mIRC. When this is done, click "OK." You should immediately connect to Bladerock and join #AGN, and then you can begin chatting!

(NOTE: If you do not connect automatically, find the connect icon: Click this, and you should connect. If you followed the instructions properly, you should not have to do this when starting mIRC in the future.)

If all went right, you will have connected to Bladerock and joined #AGN, as well as any other chatrooms you wish to join. I hope this guide has been helpful to you, and happy chatting! :)

NOTE: After thirty days using mIRC, it will ask you to register your copy. Do not panic; this is absolutely unnecessary. Just click "Continue" twice and you will be able to continue using mIRC for free.