WELCOME TO OMNI GAMES!! OMNI Games is a group of people like yourself who love to play games. Our service connects you with the nations best gamers and allows you to play head-to-head against them all. Every day is another new challenge when you’re on OMNI-Games!! We look forward to hearing about the new experiences that you’re about to have. There are a few things we’d like you to keep in mind.... WE NEED YOUR HELP OMNI Games is only as good as its members. When you are on-line playing a game with another member, together you make it happen. OMNI Games provides the playground for you to play in. If you don’t play, then it’s not any fun for you OR the other members. SO WE URGE YOU TO GET OUT THERE AND PLAY HARD!!!! MEMBERSHIP RATES Effective 4/1/95 REGISTRATION FEE: $30 (One-Time fee: Non-Refundable) MEMBERSHIP RATES: $14.95 if paid monthly $41.85 if paid quarterly $77.70 if paid semi-annually $143.40 if paid annually Membership Fees will be automatically applied to your credit card. If you prefer to pay by check, the amount due MUST be received by the due date. Advanced payments guarantees no membership fee increase. Maximum of one year advanced payment accepted. SPECIAL OFFER Effective April 1, 1995 OMNI Games is offering the following membership offer to owners of Graphic Simulations F/A-18 Hornet: First Month Membership is FREE with your 3 month membership sign-up. plus a $30 one-time registration fee Prices subject to change without notice START-UP INSTRUCTIONS Copy “BroadCast” into your system extensions folder. This item is located inside the folder named “Put In Your Externsions”. Broadcast is used as our back-up communications just in case there is a problem with our primary communication software (FirstClass). Copy the folder named "O.M.N.I. FirstClass® Client" onto your hard drive. We have included a FC Off-Line Help file to assist you in learning the features of FC. RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. CONNECTING TO THE OMNI GAMES SERVICE Use your ARA v.20 software to connect to OMNI Games by dialing: 408-295-1153 Once connected to OMNI Games, Double-Click on the OMNI BBS Guest icon located inside the "O.M.N.I. FirstClass® Client" folder. IMPORTANT: If you are connecting as a guest, You may do so by typing in the user ID box : GUEST1 or GUEST2 Your Password as a guest is "12345" Press the "LOGIN" button to connect to the OMNI FC server. In order to use OMNI Games service, you MUST have the following: 1. A Macintosh Computer (Must meet game requirements) 2. Apple Remote Access (ARA) v.2.0 3. A modem (Minimum 9600 Baud, 14,400 Baud recommended) 4. A multi-player game that will allow networking over ARA 2.0 (Ex: F/A-18, Chuck Yeager Air Combat, PowerPoker, etc) You may want to have the following items to improve your gaming experience: 1. Gravis Mousestick 2. Thrustmaster Flight Control, Weapons Control, Rudders. 3. 28,800 modem 4. Voice/Data Modem-(This allows you to communicate verbally with other players who have the same type of modem while playing) As a member of OMNI Games, you are entitled to receive discounts on software and hardware. Please call us for price information on any software or hardware you need. THINGS NOT TO DO!!! Do not attempt to play games that are not approved for use over OMNI Games. Some games may appear to be usable, but have failed to actually work. In most cases these games tend to lock up our modems and crash the users computer. For example,, the following games CAN NOT BE PLAYED OVER OUR NETWORK AT THIS TIME: 1. Super Maze Wars 2. Spectre 3. Spectre VR If you have questions or problems you can call us 24 hours a day! We want you to have fun and enjoy our services. Also, feel free to explore our shared folders using FirstClass! We hope that you have fun playing over the network and we encourage you to let us know how we’re doing. Thank you for supporting our effort to provide a low cost gaming network for the nations best computer gamers. We’ll see you on the playing fields......Good Luck! About the O.M.N.I. Gazette OMNI Games publishes a monthly newsletter for its members. If you have noteworthy information that you would like to share with other members, create an eMail message and send it to ICEMAN. He will read and consider your suggested addition to our newsletter. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME, HANDLE AND A GOOD TIME TO CONTACT YOU. This will ensure prompt response to your suggestions. Examples of Possible Suggestions: 1. Winning Scores for battles 2. Talk about the effects F/A-18 has on the girlfiends and spouses of members! Why do they act like Game Widows? 3. Suggestions about how to improve OMNI Games services. 4. Notices of busy lines or hard to connect to service. 5. Interesting topics related to gaming over networks 6. New network games and so on, and so on, and .................. Software for Sale As a member of OMNI Games, You are allowed to take advantage of our discounted prices on software for your Macintosh Computer. Because we are a new service, we will be providing only a partial list of available software titles. As our membership grows, so will the list!! Your support allows us to continue to bring you these special savings. If you want to purchase an item that IS NOT LISTED you may contact our main office to check on pricing and availability (408-295-4263). Make no mistake, we want your business and we are willing to go out of our way to help you get the best deal!! (The software list is located in the O.M.N.I. Gazette) The 10 Golden Rules Of Conduct 1. Be courteous to other users and refrain from using profanity. 2. All games will be on default settings unless otherwise specified. 3. Any device for modification of a program is prohibited (Axis Game Cheater) or any modification that alters game play is likewise prohibited. 4. After your scheduled game time is up you should drop off the reserved game. If you go back and check for the next scheduled game and there is an opening, feel free to fill that vacancy. You may also use We have provide a copy of "FirstClass" for chat on our system, please use this to set up game play. 5. Hosts are considered priveledged players. They are allowed to set the game rules for the games they are hosting. If for example, the Game Host for an F/A-18 mission advises each player that "Default Settings" must be used, you should check your game settings and insure that you are playing according to these rules. 6. Be certain not to pick up your telephone handset while utilizing a modem connected to this service, it may lock up that individual port and will require manual reset which may take several hours to reset. Turn "Call waiting" off by having "*70," at the beginning your dial string, this will prevent interuption and system lock up. 7. Transfer of Copyrighted material is not permitted over this system, any such action is a violation of copyright laws. If you are uncertain about the copyright status of a program or other material, please contact the System Adminstrator. 8. When any member is unable to log-on to the server for any reason (All Lines Busy, No answer, etc.) they should advise the OMNI Games Administrator immediately via telephone-remember that you may call us 24-hours a day @ (408)295-4263. If no one is available to answer the call, please leave a message and a representative will automatically be paged for immediate response. This is necessary to ensure the reliability of the server and will allow us make system changes to better accommodate our members. 9. Operating an aircraft while under the influence of any intoxicant or controlled substance is a violation of FAA regulations (Most Likely) and is strongly discouraged. Players flying aircrafts in an unstable fashion may be detained for questioning and requested to complete an air sobriety test. (This is a joke guys! We needed to have 10 rules right?) 10. Violation of these rules may result in termination of membership. If you observe other members violating rules, you may advise the System Administrator by typing an eMail message indicating what, where,when, how, and who violated the rules of conduct. Send the information directly to the system administrator (ICEMAN or MAVERICK). These rules are for the benefit of all members. Thank you foryour cooperation. OMNI Reserves the right to terminate any account