| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 1465 | 4084 | 2000-10-05 17:53:18 | <img src="/images/thumbs/freelords1.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="156"><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> This game is similar to W*rl*rds. Its objective is to kill all other enemy players. To achieve this you need to explore unknown territory, occupy enemy cities and produce armies. | FreeLords 0.0 | new | |
| 1466 | 3430 | 2000-10-05 17:58:25 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> an arkanoid-like game for 4 players at the same time<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>The good: <ul> <li>Support for different skins <li>Level editor <li>You can select number of players (1-4) </ul> <li>The bad: <ul> <li>no binary distribution yet <li>needs ClanLib-0.5 CVS version to work </ul> <li>The ugly: <ul> <li> the graphics and levels (I need an artist). </ul> </ul> | Clankanoid 0.9 | updated | |
| 1467 | -1 | 2000-10-05 18:01:39 | <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> A 3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Completely revised interface <li>Many new gameplay features <li>New courses <li>Improved graphics <li>Sound and music <li>Joystick support </ul> | Tux Racer 0.60.1 | updated | |
| 1468 | -1 | 2000-10-05 18:04:16 | <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> First-person shooter Internet game engine<p> <em>Changelog:</em> This release, which will be 0.3.0, has lots of new stuff: <ul> <li>Full-bright palette entries work in GL, both in maps and models <li>Colored dynamic lights, rocket explosions actually light up the room <li>Colored static lights, using .lit files <li>Nifty rocket explosion (you have to see it) <li>On-the-fly decompression of files (maps are as low as 40% original size) <li>Compressed file transfer to download files from servers faster <li>Runs on damn-near anything from a 486 PC to a giant Sun E10000. </ul> | QuakeForge 0.2.99 bet | updated | |
| 1469 | -1 | 2000-10-05 18:06:02 | <img src="/images/thumbs/xtamago_scrn1.gif" align="right" width="127" height="200"><em>Category:</em> Toy<br> <em>Description:</em> Xtamago is a freeware linux/X11 tamagotchi simulator - care for your pet and play Pokemon Invaders as tamago tries to achieve enlightenment ! | Xtamago 1.00 | new | |
| 1470 | 4094 | 2000-10-05 18:10:11 | <img src="/images/thumbs/icebreaker.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="151"><em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Description:</em> So, uh, there's a bunch of penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. You have been selected to catch them so they can be shipped to Finland, where they are essential to a secret plot for world domination. <P> IceBreaker was inspired by (but is not an exact clone of) Jezzball, by Dima Pavlovsky. | IceBreaker 1.0 | new | |
| 1471 | 2 | 2000-10-05 18:18:44 | <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Added VCD and URL playback support to plaympeg. <li>The example OpenGL player uses hardware scaling and filtering. <li>Added YUV filter plugin architecture. <li>Added software bilinear filtering option to gtv and plaympeg. <li>Improved error recovery - plays many more movies than before. <li>Updated for SDL 1.1.5, with improved hardware acceleration. </ul> | SDL MPEG Library 0.4.1 | updated | |
| 1472 | 2 | 2000-10-05 18:32:14 | Can't quite scrape up fifty bucks for a copy of <a href="http://happypenguin.org/show?SimCity%203000%20Unlimited">SimCity 3000</a>? Maybe you can win one. Thomas Johnson of <a href="http://www.linuxboxen.com">Linuxboxen.com</a> sent this in: <p> <A HREF="http://www.linuxboxen.com">LinuxBoxen.com</A> offers chance to win SimCity 3000. LinuxBoxen.com, the only site to offer hardware components with Linux drivers, is sponsoring a contest to win Loki's new SimCity 3000 for Linux. To enter the contest, simply create an account at <A HREF="http://www.linuxboxen.com">LinuxBoxen.com</A>. | Win a copy of SimCity 3000 | default | |
| 1473 | 2 | 2000-10-05 18:43:15 | <ul> <li>Beta testers for the IRIX version of Quake III Arena are being sought. You should already own Quake III Arena as only the IRIX binary will be available for download. Interested? Write to <a href="mailto:beta@lokigames.com">beta@lokigames</a> with your system configuration. Hurry, space is limited. <li>There's a French language version of the SimCity 3000 demo available. Find it at <a href="http://www.lokigames.com/products/sc3k/demo.php3">http://www.lokigames.com/products/sc3k/demo.php3</a>. <li>Scott Draeker, president and founder of Loki Software, Inc., will be joining Michael L. Robertson, chairman and CEO of MP3.com, Christie Hefner, chairman and CEO of Playboy (and Playboy.com) and other industry leaders for a cutting edge conference that will address how Internet challenges of free speech, free trade, and intellectual property can coexist. <p> Please join us, the Cato Institute and Forbes ASAP for Technology & Society 2000: The New Entertainment Era: The Convergence of Technology & Entertainment. <p> November 9-10, 2000 Hyatt Regency Reston Reston, VA <p> Space is limited so register ASAP. For more information and to register on-line, please visit: <a href="www.cato.org/events/techconf00/index2.html"> www.cato.org/events/techconf00/index2.html</a> </ul> | Loki news | default | |
| 1474 | -1 | 2000-10-05 18:45:14 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A front console/X front end to <a href="/show?xmame">X-Mame</a>.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>all available fonts are now automatically determined <li>totally new makefile-structure <li>FreeBSD support (besides Linux and SunOS) <li>removed support for the curses-version ! <li>qmsetup - a startup config wizard for qmamecat <li>and some bug-fixes... </ul> | MAMECAT 0.41 | updated |