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General

IRC is an abbreviation of Internet Relay Chat, meaning a real-time chatting protocol in internet which consists of users and channels (rooms). People can talk to each other privatelly or publically in one of the channels (there are thousands of them). There are several Elma related channels, the first and the biggest one is #across, on which we mainly concentrate on now.

The #across was founded by px and bluu in the end of the 1998. At the beginning there were only about 5-10 users at the prime time and the main language was Finnish. One user by one it grew and in the 2000 there were 20-30. Yet the most users were Finnish but more and more Swedish and Norwegian players started to hang around and therefore people used all those languages in addition to English. Moreover some underground channels were founded. The #across name remained eventhough the new version, Elasto Mania (released in the February 2002), had a new name.

Elma got more popular and people started to get 24/7 internet connections which both increased the number of users. More nationalities were represented such as Czech, Hungarian, Canadian, American, Danish, Russian... In 2005, when the amount of users had grown to about 80 ppl of 15 different nationalities, it was quite apparrent that a common language should be defined and use of other languages restricted to keep the channel organised and generally understandable to most.

In 2001 #battle was founded by Petri, Ari_ahf and onlainari and the primary function is having a place to play battles. Later on it has grown the second biggest Elma channel. The first years the battles were organized manually and the most enthusiastic players made results. In 2003 MagnusB coded a battlebot (and since 2004 skint0r has continued the project) to make all the organizing automatic and since then people have played thousands and thousands battles.

Screenshots

Do you have more screenshots of good old times? Contact us.

Rules

Obvious

  • Don't flood, you ain't Moses
  • Use some common sense when greeting
  • Behave
  • No colors allowed
  • No autorejoin or repeating allowed
  • Do not beg for operator status
  • Unnecessary nickname changing isn't allowed
  • Don't use too much /me (what is much? It's up to operators)
  • Annoying scripts are not allowed either
  • Two persons can talk in private as well

Special

  • Maximum 9 characters in nickname
  • The main language is English (Acrossish), other languages are allowed only under extreme circumstances
  • Replay begging in privates

Operators

NickRoleSinceRetired
pxFounder, bots1998-
venderBots1998-
turaBots1998-
TiskNormal1999-
KarlisKicker1999-
AbulaNormal2001 -
skint0rKicker2003-
cyreNormalJul 2004-
SveinRNormal21 Sep 2004-
bluuFounder19982001
ZooyorkNormal19991999
RampageNormal19991999
ShortyNormal19991999
SniperNormal19991999
kuivaNormal19992004
TobleNormal20012003
SathyNormal20032005
kimitysNormal20042005

Joining

A very short guide to join #across:

  • Download an IRC client, mIRC is a good client for beginners
  • Install mIRC and launch it
  • Fill in your real name, nick names and an email address
  • Find out a working IRCnet server (the more local the better) from the mIRC server list or semi-official IRCnet.com server list
  • Connect, write /join #across in Status window and start chatting
  • You can also try CGI:IRC

More advanced instructions can be read in mIRC Homepage and IRChelp.org.

Logs

The logs are not complete, please help us filling the missing days.

Quotes

Statistics

Statistics are generated from the log files we have and therefore are not complete either. Also there are people with strange nicknames.

Other channels

  • #battle (guide)
  • #mopobattle
  • #elma.hu
  • #elma.fi
  • #elma.no
  • #elma.se
  • #elastomania.cz
  • team channels

¬ NOTE

This website (Moposite) has been in hibernation since c. 2006.

Still active parts:

  1. WR table
  2. Across WR table
  3. Special levels NEW
  4. Mopolauta forum
  5. Archive


Elsewhere:

  1. Speedrun (34:21,73) NEW (54/54 WR)
  2. Elma Online (EOL)
  3. History of Elasto Mania (1995-2018)
  4. Official website
  5. Discord chat and #across (IRCnet)
  6. Total times list (inactive)

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