Coming Soon!

A Joomla 1.5 native version of PUArcade is due to be released shortly. The native release is in development and is coming along nicely. We appreciate your patience while we work out all the kinks and are quite sure PUArcade native will be worth the wait. The native release will be a simple upgrade to your existing version, so why not start building your arcade now? You can build your arcade today in legacy mode, and do a quick and easy upgrade to the native version once it is released. So, head on over to the download section and grab yourself a copy!

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jVitals Announcement

It is with pride and joy jVitals announces it has taken the PUArcade project under it's management, adding it to the jVitals family of extensions.

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This new management is a result of extensive consultation with the PUArcade community, and will benefit jVitals as well as existing PUArcade users. There will be some difficulties during this transition as the community comes to terms with the new management, and jVitals development staff and management become familiar with the project. A community such as PUArcade requires committment from the owners as well as the community. We are very happy that community members have come forward and committed to continue to support the community with their experience and expertise contributing code, fixes and participation in the forums as members and moderators. jVitals has committed to providing the resources to make the existing system stable and 1.5 native, and to continue to provide the community with an open system that is available to all. The success of PUArcade is within its community, we are glad to be part of this community and will continue to communicate and consult with the community regarding the direction of the project.

Future of PUArcade:

  • Stable management and development
  • Open license and free distribution of core
  • jSocialSuite integration provided by jVitals
  • Other integration will remain, no current features will be removed for business reasons
  • System will remain open to existing integrators
  • Create relationships with external developers (like HeyZap) that benefit the PUArcade project

How jVitals got involved:

Our involvement was initiated by members that are involved in both the PUArcade and jVitals communities. We have been aware of the project, but have not been involved in any way. Our jVitals members asked us to see if there was any way that we could work with PUArcade, and referred us to the existing The Future of PUArcade discussion. jVitals looked at the products and community and felt it could be benfitial to both communities if we could have a close relationship, which we hope we have been able to develop by allowing the community to direct the process of our vision of PUArcade's future.

We look forward to a long and successful project, and invite everyone to comment and contribute openly.

Thanks

Hazzaa and the jVitals team.

www.jvitals.com

 

Welcome!

PUArcade is a powerful arcade component for the Joomla Content Management system. It was the first arcade component available for Mambo and Joomla, and is in use on many thousands of websites around the world. The component is completely free and open source.

PUArcade has always been designed with an eye to simplicity. We seek to balance flexibility with ease of use, and believe we have found that balance. The front end is easy to navigate for your end users, with familiar folder layout, sorting, and pagination. The back end makes it easy to manage games, scores, folders, and settings with a secure and easy to use control panel.

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Some of the exciting features the PUArcade offers include:

  • Support for IBProArcade, V32, PNFlashGames, V3Arcade, and PHPBB Arcade games right out of the box, no extra work required.
  • Support for DCR Games.
  • Nice Ajax maintenance screen allows you to do lots of arcade functions quickly and easily, such as clearing all scores, clearing all ratings, and more.
  • Support for nested folders, with unique graphics and access control lists on a folder by folder basis.
  • Support for NES, Gameboy, and Atari 2600 ROMS.
  • Ajax based front end allows sorting and other functions without a refresh.
  • Ajax based game rating system.
  • Choose if games open in main window or a new window. Includes popup blocker detection!
  • Full language support, with many included languages.
  • Optionally display breadcrumbs as you navigate folders.
  • Smooth integration with JomComment and Shoutboxes
  • Upload of zip or tar files in IBProArcade and PNFlashgames formats, including bulk upload of nested files.
  • No ugly banners or obtrusive links
  • Keep Alive function that keeps user sessions alive while they play.
  • Lots of layout control, including number of columns to display, game parameters such as size and background, and more, all from the administrative panel.
  • Supports JACL+ access control
  • Tag Cloud
  • Lots More!