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1957 4 2001-09-07 02:47:42 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> 1st person view Pacman clone with bonus and malus. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>added new maps <li>memory cleanups <li>new sounds and textures <li>menu changes <li>bug fixes </ul> MangoQuest 0.6.3a updated
1958 4 2001-09-07 02:51:08 <em>Category:</em> Strategy<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> Chess game with 3D OpenGL graphics <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Tweaked about dialog <li>Added logo.xpm <li>Fixed a critical bugs <li>Changed timer interval <li>Move list now scrolls down when it reachs bottom <li>Fixed compile line to have LIBS last </ul> glChess 0.3.5 updated
1959 4 2001-09-08 03:41:03 <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> An arcade game emulator with support for over 2000 games. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Applied a fix for the Bubble Bobble driver <li>Added a couple words to the makefile to indicate that the 68020 asm core is broken <li>Added a.out support to the dlsym calls in several GLmame files <li>Applied a fix for Konami games <li>Using -debug no longer results in a segfault <li>Applied a patch for the ES550x that fixes the runaway voices in Puzzle Bobble 3 and might fix other games with problems <li>Added -samplepath/-sp and -artworkpath/-ap command line options <li>Added mame-cd to contrib/tools <li>Added romcheck to contrib/tools </ul> Xmame 0.54.2 updated
1960 4 2001-09-08 03:48:33 <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A set of Python modules for creating games in Python. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>MPEG1 movie playback <li>Extended drawing primitives, like Ellipse and Polygon <li>Python 1.5.2 support <li>Bug fixes </ul> Pygame 1.2 updated
1961 4377 2001-09-08 11:52:47 <em>Category:</em> Emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> FCE Ultra is a portable NES/Famicom emulator based on Bero's original FCE source <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Adjusted PPU/CPU timing. <li>Removed(until I understand the problem) a hack to get one of the games in the Caltron 6-in-1 to work. <li>Fixed an MMC3 IRQ emulation bug("Project Q" works better now). <li>Fixed a problem/misunderstanding regarding the upper scanline. It can now be displayed again. <li>More accurate sprite hit emulation(fixes the title screen of "Ultimate Stuntman"). <li>VRAM bank switching for iNES mapper 4 is now possible(and enabled for all mapper 4 games without CHR ROM). Fixes "Tenchi o Kurau 2". <li>Added support for the Famicom's four-player adapter and the ability to enable it(it is disabled by default to prevent compatibility problems). <li>Joystick button configuration is a little more user friendly(and stable, hopefully). </ul> FCE Ultra 0.70 updated
1962 4 2001-09-09 14:50:34 <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A tetris-like puzzle game where you try to match of four blobs of the same color <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Porting some dialog bugfixes in xscorch over to xpuyopuyo <li>Porting over xscorch's help system into xpuyopuyo <li>Cleaned up configure script a bit <li>More verbose error message if theme load fails <li>Fixed '//' path problem that prevented execution on cygwinNew theme added -- Spheres <li>Some documentation cleaning </ul> Xpuyopuyo 0.9.5 updated
1963 4377 2001-09-09 22:01:49 <em>Category:</em> Emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Pcsx is a Playstation emulator. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>fix the bug in the configurator <li>fixes to rootcouters many games work now :) Some SPU samples work better now <li>fixes to cd-da. You can also enable or disable it now... <li>add MCI commands for Cd-rom plugins that not have CDRplay commands (cdrduddie,cdrbarret) <li>corrections to NCT-NCS of GTE <li>SPU irq added <li>Fixes to Iori SPU support <li>various GUI fixes. <li>CD-XA mono <li>full CD-XA support (in some cases it's still buggy) <li>perfect CDrom timing :) <li>command line options, type 'pcsx -h' for a list </ul> PCSX 0.9.227 updated
1964 4 2001-09-10 13:15:48 <em>Category:</em> Simulation<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> Racing Car Simulator in OpenGL <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Support for PLIB 1.4.2 <li>Full sceneries and landscape <li>Damages for collisions <li>New cars <li>New tracks </ul> TORCS 1.0.0-pre7 updated
1965 4 2001-09-10 13:18:00 <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>This version contains new translations for Danish, German, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Ukrainian (da, de, es, it, no, ru, uk). <li>The game code itself is unchanged from 0.6.5, because the source is in an uncompilable state right now. </ul> BomberMaze 0.6.6 updated
1966 4 2001-09-10 13:23:22 <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Kyra is Sprite engine written in C++ <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Tutorial to get you started <li>Bulletin board for Kyra questions, features, and updates <li>Added Text output, with both fixed and proportional font support <li>Box and BoxResource, for drawing lines, rectangles, and crosshairs in solid <li>colors or patterns <li>Hit test capability to fetch a list of objects at a pixel location <li>Visibility property <li>Bug fixes and improved performance <li>Encoder gives clearer output in regards to what is being encoded <li>Color keys can be specified by location as well as color <li>The Sprite Editor was completely re-written to use the Kyra engine </ul> Kyra 1.3.3 updated