The arcade is finally back, altough in a totally different form. Since the old system had separate user accounts, it wasn't very convenient. However there is now a decent arcade system for SMF that I can use and is, like the Download System, compatible with the portal too. Because of the different coding, we couldn't install the old games yet. However, in the future, we may install them back, altough they will have their highscore system disabled since they were designed for JCink arcade and IPB arcade.

Some people have been waiting for this feature return for a long time. The arcade is now avaliable through the navigation bar below the banner. Here you will be able to find a bunch of classics that I found on the web, mostlty flash ports of games from the '80s and '90s such as Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr., Duck Hunt, Starcraft and Tetris!

However keep in mind that arcade usage is restricted to members who has at least 50 posts since they signed up. Also, if the arcade supports java, there are some chances that Omnimaga proprietary games will be added too.

Have fun but don't spend too much time in there. We want to see Halo for calculators in the future.

At last, there is finally a SMF Portal mod compatible with our download system and with better latest topics listing. Despite some missing features that were avaliable in the previous portal, such as top posters and latest member, it should make it easier for members to know if there were new files uploaded. This portal system is also being made by the same authors than the actual download system.

This portal also features custom pages, something we had on the temporary Omnimaga board after the New Year 2008 shutdown, meaning that after I figure the system out, the board rules will be moved there and the old awards and contest results will be posted as non-forum-post pages, like on the very first Omnimaga website we had until May 2005. This may also make the Java chat applet being integrated in the website easier and no longer being external.

We at Omnimaga want to wish you Happy New Year. Let's hope for even more calculator projects and release in 2009!

UPDATE: Due to last new year incident that resulted in Omnimaga demise in March, there will be no Greatest Omnimaga Active Top Staff Ever and Greatest Omimaga Top Contributing User Ever award until December 2009, as Omnimaga was revived only about 4 months ago. The next G.O.A.T.S.E. and G.O.T.C.U.E. poll will be posted then.

UPDATE 2 (around 5 AM): Illusiat 81 has now been ported to the 85 and 86, making it avaliable on all z80 calculators. However due to the different screen resolution and the nature of TI-BASIC there are some minor display differences regarding HP/MP/Damage/LV/Exp numbers. The TI-86 version is also slower, due to this calculator model being slower than its predecessor, the TI-85, for some reasons.

There have been some updates on the forums and website. The menu bar at the top was sorted as close as how it was on the old Omnimaga forums. The download discussion section on the forums, which was starting to get very cluttered, was removed. However, members now have the ability to comment directly on file info pages in the download section as well as on members profiles, like on Youtube. An old feature from the old Omnimaga board was also added, allowing you to browse all topics by a member in particular, not just individual posts. Quite ironically on the old board you could view all topics from a member, but not posts. Also, on the member list, you can now see when each members last posted (if they posted at all). We may also switch to a new portal system if the new portal, made by the same authors as the download system we are using right now, reaches full functionality and becomes stable.

On the calculator side, I updated Illusiat 81 in the archives, because there were some typos in the source code. The game has also been ported to the TI-73 and from the TI-82 to the TI-84 models, for those who want to see how the game looked like but don't own a TI-81. The port to later models has some minor slow downs and is bigger in size than its original counterpart because it was optimized to have less subroutines to not clutter the PRGM menu too much and slowed down because the TI-81 ran at 2 MHz, while the TI-82, 83 and 83+ run at 6 MHz. The game was not adapted to the 15 MHz calculators speed, though, so on these it will run twice faster, like most other BASIC games.

I might be quite inactive for a while and inactive on IRC due to recent events. As our other admin is also inactive we might be unable to process any big requests such as staff applications and we cannot guarantee that the RPG archives will all be back anytime soon.

Sorry for any inconveniences this might be causing