UPDATE: there is a new version of Macirssi, 0.8.1 that is now an universal binary, you can donwload it here. The below unofficial port should not be used anymore.

On a side note, I recommend using Colloquy instead of MacIrssi as it is a more mature client. Don’t be fooled by the graphic intensive themes, I can be coerced in looking and feeling like a text client.

I’ve been looking for a long time for a native intel version of Macirssi 0.8.0, as the author didn’t update the software in now more than a year, I only managed to find the PPC version of 0.8.0 and an unofficial 0.7.0 intel build.

So after wrestling in the dark with Xcode, I managed to build an intel-only version of 0.8.0.

You can download it here: Unofficial MacIrssi 0.8.0 Intel only

Disclaimer: this is not an official build of MacIrssi, there is no warranty whatsoever and I’m not the author of MacIrssi.

On that note, I’m currently trying to make it works better with light backgrounds. Some of the text color preferences works strangely, the foreground color of the nick and channel list seems to be reset to white at each startup despite the color preferences being set differently. I’m trying to figure out where some of the colors are set between the irssi themes, the preferences and the source code, I already found out that the url color is hardcoded.