If I recall correctly, a few PC games used irc code as the basis of there networking stack. irc2 script was what really got me into programming all those years

If I recall correctly, a few PC games used irc code as the basis of there networking stack. irc2 script was what really got me into programming all those years ago. At one point I had VT100 codes spammed to the status line in order to draw blocks on the screen for an in chat tetris game drawn in ascii. I also managed to hack out of the sandbox the client was running in by setting the ENCRYPT_PROGRAM feature to /bin/sh. Good times.