Now that mta 1.1 is out and our servers are still 1.0 it is annoying to connect to it via this shortcut. There's another way: just modify the normal MTA shortcut slightly.
If you don't have one on your Desktop already, copy the MTA 1.0 executable, then right-click on your Desktop and click on "Paste shortcut" (or something like that, i have german).
Right-click this shortcut and add this behind target: mtasa://ownageowls.com:22003 or whereever you want to connect to, so it looks like this:
"C:\blablablabla\MTA San Andreas\Multi Theft Auto.exe" mtasa://ownageowls.com:22003
Now MTA 1.0 is started directly instead of first starting 1.1 and then 1.0