It might take weeks for me to get back to you, or I might answer right away. Try to solve problems yourself before you mail me about them. Try asking someone who is actively running a Zippy-based player on ICC or FICS for help getting started. Mail me only if you get stuck. Tell the admins of whatever ICS you use that your player is a computer, so that it gets put onto the computer list, and follow the ICS computer policies.
Some documentation is in the file engine-intf.txt in the distribution.
One pinhead per server is plenty, and I'd like to keep the franchise. Feel free to use -zt to have your program shout some other kind of sayings if you like. You might find other suitable material at these sites. Prose tends to work poorly because it is dull when shouted in isolated 250-character chunks. There is no longer a distinct WinZippy.exe.