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1727 4 2001-05-15 00:24:46 <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Chess client for GNOME <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>multiple, resizable, appearance configurable boards <li>Typing history for servers <li>extended preferences </ul> Gnome Chess 0.3.0 updated
1728 4 2001-05-15 00:38:04 <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"> <p> <em>Description:</em> Bomber Man clone for Gnome <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Theme README file contents are displayed on the theme selection page. <li>Map preview now includes starting positions of players. <li>icons3d and space theme added. <li>Japanese translation added. </ul> BomberMaze 0.6.5 updated
1729 4 2001-05-15 06:06:33 <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Network protocol library used by the worldforge project. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>strict conformance to Atlas protocol <li>working Codec negotiation <li>massively improved performance <li>easier compilation. </ul> WorldForge::Atlas 0.4.2 updated
1730 4 2001-05-15 06:24:39 <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"> <p> <em>Description:</em> An open-source graphical mud <p> <em>Changelog:</em><br> Changes since 2.4.1 <ul> <li>fixed multiple train bug <li>backups now auto-replace damaged files <li>new exp system <li>fixed train pet name conflict <li>fixed problems with player saving and backup restoration <li>modified experience system <li>password command <li>createmob function for DuskScript <li>supports both applet and application clients </ul> Dusk 2.4.5 updated
1731 3286 2001-05-15 21:02:52 <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Description:</em> Force feedback is a means of providing more realism/sensations by using the sense of touch. Only I-Force2 compliant joystick and wheels are supported. This driver is not intended to support other force-feedbackd devices, such as mice. Force feedback for linux 0.5 new
1732 -1 2001-05-15 21:30:20 <em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A little monster training game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Completely restructured codebase <li>game is now only one binary (gmonsters) </ul> Gmonsters 0.4.0 updated
1733 -1 2001-05-15 21:34:42 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4"> <p> <em>Description:</em> Relieve Opensource Angst <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Message are properly buffered and printed (in colour) on client. Colors are: <ul> <li>GREEN, Messages from other clients <li>WHITE, Message from the server (client enters/leaves/dies). <li>RED, Message from an event. </ul> <li>New "loseweapons" event (lose all weapons & ammunition). <li>Client "Kill me" message, frags and query frags Net Messages added. <li>Improved laggy key handling in menu and menu/game ESC toggle. <li>Events have 3/4 of a second between triggering now. <li>Improved "sewer" map <li>Fixed weapon switching annoyances. <li>Fixed touchdamage over a second rounding down error (bugs not hurting bug) <li>Redid most of the network code, everything is properly buffered now. <li>Added weapons, events & spawn points to "Tux 3:16" <li>Client can query frags from the server. </ul> XTux 20010508 updated
1734 -1 2001-05-15 21:38:49 <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A game programming library <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Eric Botcazou made it so that set_keyboard_rate(0, 0) will disable keyboard repeat, as in the documentation. <li>Annie Testes added font_height, render_char, char_length hooks to FONT_VTABLE. <li>Eric Botcazou made some minor changes related to AllegroGL in the window management code, and fixed two little mouse bugs Javier Gonzalez had found (both under Windows). <li>Eric Botcazou added a get_desktop_resolution() function for Windows and X. Joshua Haberman added a BeOS version. <li>Robert Ohannessian corrected src/dest ordering in additive blenders. <li>Peter Wang updated the SVGAlib driver for version 2. <li>Peter Wang added a fullscreen version of the X-Windows graphics driver. The original was by Benjamin Joel Stover. <li>Peter Wang made grabber use file_select_ex(). This is just here so you don't get a shock :-) <li>Eric Botcazou fixed the NumLock state in X not matching keyboard LEDs. <li>Eric Botcazou and Javier Gonzalez made the keyboard repeat system more efficient. <li>Eric Botcazou fixed some asm blitters, and also a bug with changing timer speeds. <li>Peter Wang made the keypad return / * - + ASCII values even if NumLock is off, under Linux console. <li>The GGI driver was removed, due to its inability to actually work. It is no longer supported, unless someone rewrites it. <li>Some MIDI fixes by Javier Gonzalez and Eric Botcazou. <li>Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz improved the fb.modes line parsing function in the fbcon driver. <li>Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz changed the behaviour of GFX_SAFE. This means that "set_gfx_mode(GFX_SAFE, ...)" now returns an error if it is unable to set a video mode, just like any other video driver. <li>Many more changes </ul> Allegro 3.9.36 updated
1735 -1 2001-05-15 21:41:37 <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5"> <p> <em>Description:</em> An Java-based open-source graphical mud <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>New Swing client, runs as an applet or an application, allowing the user to access the game with or without a web browser </ul> Dusk 2.4.5 updated
1736 866 2001-05-15 21:42:57 <im<em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> A top down scrolling putting you in the pilot seat of a space fighter. Reminiscent of many old arcade games. Certain Death Via Space Things .18 new