| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1837 | 2 | 2001-06-27 08:46:59 | <em>Category:</em> Strategy<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> Sid Meier's space simulation and strategy game comes to Linux. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Added Voice Over IP support (activated by the '' key in-game) <li>Fixed system hang on some newer x86 processors. <li>Fixed colony pod instant win bug. <li>Fixed several floating point exceptions. <li>Fixed crash when using the Planetbuster. <li>Patrol waypoints are limited to 2 instead of 3 (fix memory corruption). <li>Movies now play when started with a key press. <li>Demo tutorial text no longer refers to the Windows start menu. <li>Added PPC and Alpha ports </ul> SMAC 6.0a is available for download with the Loki Update tool at <a href="http://updates.lokigames.com">updates.lokigames.com</a>. | Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 6.0a | updated | |
| 1838 | 4387 | 2001-06-27 14:27:49 | <em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Chess game with 3D OpenGL graphics <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>fixed some SAN bugs <li>implemented GNU Chess support <li>dialogs now pop up if anything relevant happens <li>debuging and use of engine or options now, no recompilation needed <li>anymore <li>implemented pawn promotion for engine </ul> <br> | glChess 0.3.0 | updated | |
| 1839 | 4387 | 2001-06-27 14:31:28 | <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A very good open-source MUD server <p> This release sees lots of internal rewrites, tons of important bug fixes, the rewrite of the edit extension, scripting interface (with very basic Ruby support), beginning of conversion to XML data files, and more. <br> | AweMUD 0.5.6 | updated | |
| 1840 | -1 | 2001-06-28 07:27:08 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> SDLRoids is a clone of the famous Astroids game. It adds some new features and has nice physics. | SDLRoids 1.3.4 | new | |
| 1841 | -1 | 2001-06-28 07:27:58 | <em>Category:</em> Abandoned<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> Linux port of Parallax's Descent 2 space game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>new maintainer, home page </ul> | D2X 0.0.9 | updated | |
| 1842 | -1 | 2001-06-28 07:30:03 | <em>Category:</em> Emulator<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> Sierra AGI Emulator <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <br> The interpreter core has been redesigned. This release adds a new sprite manager, sprite repositioning and blocking, proper handling of previously unused view table entries and flags, preliminary savegame support, and PC EGA video controller 320x200 aspect ratio correction. The graphics layer has been redesigned to work with new sprites, and all ancillary buffers have been replaced by a single AGI screen buffer containing both priority and visible data. Several AGI commands have been fixed, graphics drivers have been optimized, and there are many win32 fixes. | Sarien :: The Alien AGI Interpreter 0.6.0 | updated | |
| 1843 | -1 | 2001-06-28 07:31:37 | <img src="/images/thumbs/oval1_shot.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Car racing simulation <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Curved surfaces <li>environment mapping <li>viscous locking differential <li>skies <li>fixed the Linux single texture bug (!) <li>and more... </ul> | Racer 0.4.6 | updated | |
| 1844 | -1 | 2001-06-28 18:46:51 | <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>Major bugfixes <li>Movement animation </ul> | Dusk 2.5.1 | updated | |
| 1845 | 2 | 2001-06-29 07:52:56 | <img src="/images/plg_cov.gif" align="right" width="156" height="200"><a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki</a> and <a href="http://www.nostarch.com">No Starch Press</a> announced a new book yesterday: <a href="http://www.nostarch.com/plg.htm">Programming Linux Games</a>, authored by "the gaming masters at Loki Software". The full press release is available <a href="http://www.lokigames.com/press/archive.php3?06282001">here</a>. | Game programming book from Loki | default | |
| 1846 | 4 | 2001-07-03 01:17:47 | <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<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> Graphics intensive version of NetHack. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Music support for Linux (MIDI and MP3) <li>Much improved keyboard customization <li>Improved sound customization: all sounds and music can now be customized <li>Mouse movement now works also without "number_pad" option <li>Over 20 new tiles, including traps, ladders, zap and explosion effects <li>The message area is now shaded so that messages can be seen better <li>Directions (for kick, chat, etc.) can now be given with the mouse. <li>Directions given from the number pad now always work the same (in movement and for kick, chat, etc.) <li>"Previous message" command (CTRL+P) now works <li>Lots of bug fixes </ul> | NetHack Falcon's Eye 1.9.2 | updated |