Sounds like an intresting project. A friend of mine created his bot with sockets, it sort of had its own little "socket" server login area... sort of IRCdish... I dont see quite how the IRCd would fully run though? Just boot up with mIRC? would it be able to support users and modes... and things of that nature.. I'd assume services would be compleatly out of question.. (no offence to mIRC since i love it.. but... we all know that Windows IRCd's arnt the stable :P except maybe Unreal who has a "Stable" windows version. )
