| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 122 | 2 | 1999-03-06 19:20:40 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> Thie is the "brown paper bag release" of XMAME 0.35b4 (Read: 0.35b4.1 wouldn't compile). This brings XMAME up to date with the b4 DOS version of MAME. | Xmame 0.35b4.2 | updated | |
| 123 | 2 | 1999-03-07 15:52:24 | <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> Pingus is a Lemmings-like game for Linux.<p> There's a new development release of Pingus available, as there usually is each Sunday. This one sp orts the following new features: <ul> <li>you can now give the pingus actions (floater, stopper) <li>"make install" works, not perfect <li>the game should now run an a constant speed </ul> Ingo points out that this version may be difficult to compile due to problems with ClanLib and other stuff. <p> <img src="/images/builder.gif" align=left width=32 height=32>Also, they're still looking for volunteers to help with graphics and level design. If you want to help, check out the <a href="http://privat.schlund.de/g/grumbel/pingus/gfx.html">Pingus graphics page</a>. | Pingus 0.0.6 | updated | |
| 124 | 2 | 1999-03-08 11:04:46 | MP Software's <a href="mailto:Christophe@hopkinsfbi.com">Christophe</a> wrote me with a couple of juicy <a href="/show?Hopkins%20FBI">Hopkins FBI</a> items: <ul> <li>A playable demo of the game will be released tomorrow, Tuesday March 9. <li>The full retail version of Hopkins FBI for Linux will available in the US, Canada, and the UK on March 28, 1999, mere weeks from now. The price will be $39.95. </ul><p> <b>UPDATE:</b> <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/08/0923245.shtml">slashdot reports</a> that the demo is already online. Indeed it is, but the poor FTP server is now suffering from the Slashdot Effect. I don't recommend you attempt a download just yet. As soon as possible I'll make a copy available here. Watch this space. | Hopkins FBI news | default | |
| 125 | 2 | 1999-03-08 10:21:50 | <img src="/images/thumbs/fad.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> Non-playable demo of an upcoming 3D-accelerated real time strategy game.<p> This demo now works with Voodoo 1 cards, and incorporates some cool new features like volumetric fog and reflective water. For now, these features are exclusive to the Linux demo. No cool effects in the Windows demo yet. <p> You need this. Download it now. | Fire and Darkness 0.6.2.2 | updated | |
| 126 | 2 | 1999-03-08 10:32:04 | If you're following the development of the <a href="http://www.golgotha.org">Golgotha</a> project, you may be interested to know that they've got some new <a href="http://www.golgotha.org/story/">preliminary background story</a> stuff online. World War III, psychic shadow governments, underground resistance. Whee! | Golgotha story developments | default | |
| 127 | 2 | 1999-03-08 16:37:02 | Perhaps several thousand of you noticed that our server was down for many hours today. I appreciate your concern, but please stop emailing me about it now, ok? :-) We're still not sure what the cause of the downtime was...it looks like the server just decided to stop talking to the rest of the world around 10 this morning. A scsi controller is implicated too. <p> Anyway, the Tome is back up. Hopefully I'll have a mirrored copy of the Hopkins FBI demo online for your downloading pleasure soon. | Downtime | default | |
| 128 | 2 | 1999-03-08 16:46:17 | <a href="mailto:pestilence@linuxquake.com">Pestilence</a> just forwarded me a message from John Carmack regarding the upcoming retail Quake game + mission pack bundles for Linux. Carmack said: <blockquote>Quake and Quake2 bundles (the game with both mission packs) will be available well before QuakeArena. </blockquote> Yet another shrinkwrapped Linux game coming soon to store shelves near you! | Quake & Quake2 bundles for Linux | default | |
| 129 | 2 | 1999-03-08 22:22:01 | <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> This is a playable demo of an upcoming adventure game<p> The Hopkins FBI playable demo is now mirrored locally here, so hopefully more people will have a chance to download it. Bandwidth-challenged, beware: the demo is 40 megs! Start the download and go to bed or something. <p> <ul> <li><a href="http://happypenguin.org/html/hopkins/">Download via HTTP from happypenguin.org</a> <li><a href="ftp://ftp.linuxquake.com/pub/hopkins/">Download via FTP from linuxquake.com</a> </ul> | Hopkins FBI | updated | |
| 130 | 2 | 1999-03-10 11:14:26 | The site that hosts the <a href="http://www.freeciv.org">FreeCiv</a> web site is undergoing some reorganization this week which includes moving the FreeCiv web site to a new server. Some downtime is expected. Also, I don't know if this is related or not, but right now if you point your browser to <a href="http://www.freeciv.org">www.freeciv.org</a> you'll get the main Ultraviolet.org page instead of the FreeCiv page. An enterprising reader (whose name and address I've accidentally deleted, sorry) pointed out to me that <a href="http://freeside.ultraviolet.org/freeciv/html_docs/">this URL</a> will get you to the FreeCiv site if the "correct" URL doesn't work for you. <p> In other FreeCiv news, the <a href="http://freeside.ultraviolet.org/freeciv/html_docs/projects.html">FreeCiv projects page</a> has been updated. They're currently seeking development help for <a href="http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/HOME/CIVEDIT/">CivWorld</a>, the FreeCiv map editor project, and <a href="http://software.complete.org/freeciv/">the FreeCiv Java client</a>. If you've got some spare programming cycles available, check these projects out and lend a hand. If coding isn't your strength but you'd still like to help out, the <a href="http://freeside.ultraviolet.org/freeciv/html_docs/manual/main.html">FreeCiv manual</a> people are looking for volunteers too. | FreeCiv news | default | |
| 131 | 2 | 1999-03-10 22:56:03 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> A new beta version of my favorite emulator has just been released. Here's what's new: <ul> <li>Everything from msdos b5 <li>Fixed a vsb (very stupid bug) which caused xmame to hang on exit sometimes <li>Reintroduced the z80 fix from 0.35b2, you only need it if you're using gcc, you can disable the fix in the makefile if you're using egcs for a slight performance increase. This only affects x86 users. Also note that since the dos-team now is using gcc 2.8.1 more of these bugs might popup, so if you have egcs use it. </ul> | Xmame 0.35b5.1 | updated |