| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 132 | 225 | 1999-03-11 11:17:23 | <em>Category:</em> Cards<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> Very nice solitaire card game with 20 solitaire variations.<p> A new version of The Best Card Game Ever has been released. <p> This version offers major display speed improvements, adds support for background table tiles and fixes the rules of Spider and Divorce.<br> Also, a very alpha port to gnome-python is included in the sources. | PySol 2.10 | updated | |
| 133 | 2 | 1999-03-11 11:28:58 | <a href="/images/civctp1.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/civctp1.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150></a> <a href="http://www.lokisoft.com">Loki Software</a> announced that they have selected 200 beta testers for Civilization:Call To Power. Half were chosen at random, and half were hand picked. More details on Loki's <a href="http://www.lokisoft.com/civ.html">Civ page</a>. <p> They've also put up a handful of <a href="http://www.lokisoft.com/civ_scns.html">screen shots</a> from the Linux version. Looks pretty tasty. | Civ:CTP screenshots, beta testers | default | |
| 134 | 389 | 1999-03-11 16:29:46 | <em>Category:</em> Documentation<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> Describes how to install and run Starcraft on a Linux-only system with Wine.<p> Address change, the old one still works (and the new one actually redirects to the old one), but that may change in the future (it's in the hands of my ISP). The document itself was last updated on 6.2.1999, and it is now a complete StarCraft on Linux/Wine guide. | Starcraft Linux-installation HOWTO 19990206 | updated | |
| 135 | 468 | 1999-03-12 10:38:40 | <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="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> The game of kings - a nice svgalib pacman game<p> Jpeg support. Truetype font support. New menu code and control library. Loads of minor imporvements. Just a release to let people know I am still doing work :) The next release should make big improvements on the game engine towards my final ideas for it. | Hatman 0.5 | updated | |
| 136 | 630 | 1999-03-12 23:54:46 | <img src="/images/thumbs/frisk.gif" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Strategy<p> XFrisk is a networked version of the Parker Brother's classic board game. It supports chat within the game, and computer players. | XFrisk 1.00 | new | |
| 137 | 2 | 1999-03-13 22:22:30 | <img src="/images/thumbs/cgoban.gif" align=right width=190 height=200><em>Category:</em> Strategy <p> Interface to go servers <p> cgoban is an interface to NNGS, IGS and other go servers, allowing one to play go against human opponents. NNGS runs on linux, but doesn't have as many users as IGS, which runs NT. <p>go is probably the deepest strategy game ever conceived, giving both hemispheres of your brain a real workout. The rules are quite simple, but it takes a lifetime to master the game. <p> Chess master Lasker has been quoted as saying that go is deeper than chess. <p>There are other interfaces to the go servers that run on unix, but cgoban is probably the best at the time of this writing (3/13/99). <p>If you need a lot of explosions to have fun then go probably isn't for you, but if you, for example, enjoy a life-and-death race to see who captures whom first, you might really like go. | cgoban | new | |
| 138 | 2 | 1999-03-13 22:37:38 | <em>Category:</em> Action<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> <em>Description:</em> A Linux port of Boom, which is an enhanced version of Doom from id's source.<p> <ul> <li>Changes from v1.3.5 to v1.3.6 <ul> <li>Hires for the svgalib version <li>Automap rotation/overlay <li>Modified to work with the new musserver <li>Various misc improvements </ul> <li>Changes from v1.3.4 to v1.3.5 <ul> <li>Fix nasty bug causing crashes <li>Minor code improvements </ul> </ul> | lxDoom 1.3.6 | updated | |
| 139 | 2 | 1999-03-13 23:15:32 | With their blessing, I've started mirroring <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Software's</a> web site at <a href="http://loki.happypenguin.org">loki.happypenguin.org</a>, so next time you try to access their site and find that they've hit their ISP's bandwidth limit again, check out the mirror instead. | Local Lokigames.com mirror | default | |
| 140 | 2 | 1999-03-15 01:29:53 | <a href="/images/tux1.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/tux1.jpg" width=100 height=78 align=right></a><a href="mailto:sjbaker@hti.com">Steve</a> and Oliver Baker are working hard on what promises to be a very cool new 3D open source game. <p> The game is called <em>Tux:A Quest For Herring</em>, and according to Steve, gameplay will be a lot like that in Nintendo's <em>Mario'64</em>: <blockquote>There will ultimately be a bunch of levels that you progress though, collecting "Gold Herrings" to open the gateway to the next level. Silver herrings give you energy, green herrings give you indigestion and Red herrings are - well, red herrings. (Some provide key items of equipment like rocket packs, some turn Tux into "SuperTux", some will have other weird or silly side-effects ranging from giving Tux a cute bow-tie to turning him into "Tuxilla"). <p> Tux can swim, jump, roll, dive, fly (well, sortof - he *is* a Penguin)...the usual "moves" you'd expect. </blockquote> <a href="/images/tux2.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/tux2.jpg" width=100 height=78 align=left></a>Steve is writing the game in C++, and 8 year old Oliver is doing 3D modelling and playtesting. We probably won't see an initial release of <em>Tux</em> for another few months until the game engine is fully functional. At that point, Steve says he plans to release the game with a training level or two and then start a web-based project to add levels and generally improve the game. <p> Although it's still a ways off, this sounds pretty excellent. I can't wait to see more. <p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/tux/">More Tux screenshots</a> <li><a href="http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/">Steve Baker's homepage</a> </ul> | Tux:A Quest For Herring | default | |
| 141 | 2 | 1999-03-15 11:40:18 | <a href="http://www.aegistech.com/news-b.html">Aegis Tech's BFRIS news page</a> has been updated. There's talk about recent net games (if you have this game, you haven't really played it until you've played a net game!), details about the upcoming BFRIS 1.1 patch, and a pointer to some hints and cheats for registered users. | BFRIS news | default |