OK, now I get to eat the above post by me. :)

I received the following reply from Pacific-Neotek:

From: Tawnia Forster <[email protected]>

I apologize for the delay in replying; your message was misfiled. Yes, we are still developing OmniRemote. OmniRemote v1.2 will have a different interface, will allow category buttons in macros, and will allow more than 15 categories. I don't know about ASCII listings, but it has been suggested to our developer. ...