| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 1405 | -1 | 2000-08-23 20:45:59 | <img src="/images/thumbs/cowtipper.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> A simple arcade game which involves cows running across the screen, and you click on them to "tip" them. I realize there are some logistic problems in that you don't tip awake cows but hey. It's written in Python/SDL and works in Windows and *Nix | Cow Tipper 1.00 | new | |
| 1406 | -1 | 2000-08-27 12:06:20 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><p> <em>Description:</em> Collect flags while avoiding the bad cars<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>New level: Classic (Basically the Mirax level with some new maps and changes) <li>Added support for pits. Pits are obstacles, like oil, rocks, roadblocks, etc. <li>Fixs in the hiscore system <li>Enemy waits some time before moving (enemywait map option) <li>Lots of changes in the main game loop. Should increase performance, and now the game doesn't need to be launched again just to choose another level <li>Fixed some bugs in the delay functions. The game shouldn't run "too fast" on some machines anymore. <li>Added a "Runner" level, which implements a Sokoban (or KAtomic) style of playing. (it is here more like a proof of concept than anything else) <li>Some minor bugfixes <li>Removed "leo" tileset </ul> | XRally 1.0.pre4 | updated | |
| 1407 | -1 | 2000-08-27 22:31:19 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> Yadex is a Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <li>function to swap floor & ceiling <li>Sprites shown on the map <li>Heretic and Doom alpha tweaks <li>improved Strife support <li>support for sprites in pwads <li>some support for EDGE <li>about 50 other changes </ul> | Yadex 1.5.0 | updated | |
| 1408 | 704 | 2000-08-28 20:16:05 | <img src="/images/thumbs/love.gif" align="right" width="200" height="132"><em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Description:</em> Ultima 7, an RPG from the early 90's, still has a huge following. But, being a DOS game with a very non-standard memory manager, it is difficult to run it on the latest computers. Exult is a project to create an Ultima 7 game engine that runs on modern operating systems, using the data and graphics files that come with the game. | Exult 0.40 | new | |
| 1409 | -1 | 2000-08-28 20:18:08 | <img src="/images/thumbs/draglight.gif" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Toy<br> <em>Description:</em> Draglight is a one or two player drag racing practice tree simulation. | DragLight 0.5 | new | |
| 1410 | -1 | 2000-08-29 08:03:24 | <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Description:</em> Terminus takes place across our Solar System 200 years in the future. Space colonization has just begun and both Earth and Mars enjoy unprecedented prosperity. Then, it happens! Ancient alien technology is discovered which allows instantaneous travel among far-flung destinations, and the course of human history is changed forever. Players fly, trade, shoot, or steal their way through a single or multiplayer campaign bumping into hundreds of independently-acting characters and ships controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), and interact with 19 fully-equipped and schematically accurate space stations. | Terminus 1.7 | new | |
| 1411 | -1 | 2000-08-31 12:42:51 | <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><p> <em>Description:</em> first person game of blowing up asteroids<p> <em>Changelog:</em> Changes were made to the code to hopefully remove the crash for nVidia users. | Asteroids3D 0.1.149 | updated | |
| 1412 | 2 | 2000-09-01 07:05:22 | <a href="http://alteredgod.linuxgangster.org">The Altered God Project</a> is looking for character designers. Interested parties should contact <a href="mailto:natas@linuxgangster.org">Natas</a>. In its own words: <p> <blockquote> Altered God is an open-source RPG for linux. Altered God will be based in the future and have a very diverse story. Altered God's graphics are in the style of Diablo. We have a very great art and programming team. Altered God is in a very early stage of development. As of right now we have some concept art and a few screenshots to look at. </blockquote> <p> Check out <a href="http://alteredgod.linuxgangster.org">the Altered God website</a> for more details. | New game project seeks artists | default | |
| 1413 | 4012 | 2000-09-01 13:47:51 | <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Description:</em> Think of Tetris, but instead of blocks just falling down, they fall towards the center of the screen. <p> The goal of the game is to get a s**tload of points by creating "lines" with the falling blocks. When a line is filled, it will disappear and you will be awarded points. When more than one line disappears at a time, the score for each is doubled. <p> It runs on both Linux and the evil Win9x. | Black-Hole 1.01 | new | |
| 1414 | 2 | 2000-09-01 20:48:28 | <img src="/images/thumbs/sc3k_shot6.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"><a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki</a> says SC3k will be shpping to distributors late next week. In the meantime, we've got this demo to play with. <p> <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Description:</em> SimCity 3000 by developer Maxis is the critically-acclaimed strategy game that gives players the power to build and control a city. Gamers can recreate the world¹s greatest cities using landscapes such as San Francisco or Berlin and landmark building like the Empire State Building or Big Ben, or use the SimCity Building Architect Tool to create their own unique structures. Budding Big Brothers can zoom in on their growing metropolis as it comes to life with people and traffic in living color and full 3D sound. For more challenges, players may unleash disasters, and can negotiate and barter with neighboring cities. <p> | SimCity 3000 Unlimited Demo | new |