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2098 4 2001-11-09 15:09:50 <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> A realtime strategy war simulation - Plays Warcraft II <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Spells are supported. <li>New menus (unfinished yet) <li>New network code for local LAN and internet play. <li>Code cleanups, many bug fixes. <li>New AI, much more challenging, full tech tree. (But didn't use magic) </ul> FreeCraft 1.17pre1build14 updated
2099 4 2001-11-09 15:14:40 <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> GTK+ chess board interface for ICS and chess engines. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Fixed the showing of provisional ratings on the seek graph <li>It's now possible to drop pieces in bug/crazyhouse by dragging the piece from the stock to the board. <li>Added option to show crazy/bughouse stock graphically. <li>Channel tells can now be split to one window per channel <li>Better prompt removal <li>Lines that contain the prompt on the middle will now be shown correctly. <li>Finally tracked down and really solved the script freezing bug. <li>Implemented animation of piece dragging. <li>Fixed freezes related to bad parsing of ill-located FICS prompts. </ul> eboard 0.2.2 updated
2100 4 2001-11-10 03:53:43 <em>Category:</em> Interactive Fiction<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Online Game Authoring System <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>incorporates a modification necessary to work with the 0.90 release of the COG Development Application <li>a number of bugfixes. </ul> The Cycon Online Gaming (COG) Engine 0.95 updated
2101 4 2001-11-10 04:12:11 <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> A networked Boulderdash clone. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Allows you to play recorded games (.bd4 files) by double clicking or via downloading from the web <li>Talks to new server <li>Many other changes </ul> Boulderdash (BD4) 7.03 updated
2102 4 2001-11-10 04:17:57 <em>Category:</em> Simulation<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> Vega Strike Wing Commander Space Simulator <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Windows users can install with easy-to-use install.bat <li>Joystick support for a full featured joystick <li>Sound effects that make starships roar as they pass and zap as they die <li>Bolt weapons with glowing lighting effects <li>Cloaking that renders a ship partially/fully invisible <li>All new starships <li>Customizable fully working HUD with targetting displays, etc <li>Customizable Alien Race logos that will change on all starships by editing TerranPriA.bmp and TechPriA.bmp </ul> Vega Strike 0.1.0 updated
2103 3493 2001-11-11 09:04:27 <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> AI/ALife server used by the WorldForge project. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Major bug fixes and performance improvements. <li>Added new administration featurea and tools. <li>Added new Mason ruleset. </ul> Worldforge::Cyphesis 0.1.0 updated
2104 4 2001-11-12 05:53:38 <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<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> A small and fast 3D Maze game for Linux PDAs <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Added "input" windowmanager hint and title, so program will appear in VRSM window lists. This works around a current bug in VRSM. <li>REAMDE.txt fleshed out some <li>Makefile can now build Agenda SNOW binary (does by default). <li>Player doesn't start out in a wall in the medium-sized maze any more. <li>Removed ".xvpics/" subdirectory from "images/" directory. <li>Added "strlen.h" include. <li>Outline of entire maze shown in hidden-maze-view modes. <li>Cursor (within map) made more obvious. <li>Window opens right after program starts, and shows "Loading" meter. </ul> PDA Maze 2001.10.05 updated
2105 4 2001-11-12 13:08:30 <em>Category:</em> Action<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 nibbles clone, just better. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Rewrote the explosion code. This fixes some issues present in the old explosion handling <li>Fixed Makefile issues <li>Bugfixes </ul> Heroes 0.15 updated
2106 4 2001-11-12 13:24:08 <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> Real Time strategy game in its purest form where army organisation is critical. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul>improvements to <li>second ai algorithms <li>campaigns <li>victory detector <li>maps with forest and hills </ul> XbattleAI v1.1.6 updated
2107 4 2001-11-12 13:26:37 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<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> Startrek themed 2D space combat game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>SOUND EFFECTS! <li>Potential buffer overflow in database functions fixed <li>Fancier sensor display <li>More effective AI cloaking technique <li>See README to increase window size </ul> Star Voyager 0.2.0 updated