Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients and WM5

http://www.smartphonemag.com/blogs/menneisyys/112005IRCClients.asp

I've finished testing the WM5 compliance of all the available Pocket PC IRC clients and, if you plan to run midlets, MIDP environments. The results are as follows (everything tested on a freshly hard reset Dell Axim x51v with the latest, A06 ROM): As far as native Pocket PC IRC clients are concerned,

1. wmIRC 2.1: fully compatible, except for the last message list (Command/Last Messages), which is always empty (see this screenshot), as opposed to running wmIRC under pre-WM5 operating systems
2. PocketIRC 1.1: fully compatible (DCC also works)
3. PocketCHAT 1.1.8: fully compatible (so is eVB, which is required to run)

As far as MIDP environments (and, therefore, IRC Java midlets) are concerned,

1. WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment Personal Profile 1.0 for Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Ed. 5.7.2 (aka IBM J9) is fully compatible with WM5; an example screenshot of it running WLIrc 2.0 is here
2. CrEme 4.00b8: incompatible; it exits, complaining about a missing library

Please remember to read this roundup of IRC applications for the Pocket PC / Java-enabled mobile phones if you haven't done so and would like to use the IRC network for chatting.