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| 252 | 2 | 1999-04-29 10:12:12 | The <a href="http://www.textfire.com">5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition</a> is under way. If you're interested in competing, judging or volunteering, visit the official web site at <a href="http://www.textfire.com">www.textfire.com</a>, or contact this year's organizer, <a href="mailto:sgranade@phy.duke.edu">Stephen Granade</a>. <p> <em>Interactive Fiction</em> is a high-falutin' phrase for <em>text adventure</em> (although some of them sport graphics now, too). For you young'uns who weren't yet born while Infocom was still king of computer games: In Interactive Fiction, you move around in a world described to you in prose on your screen. You type commands in plain English to perform actions in that world. "TAKE THE TURNIP FROM THE DWARF", or "TALK TO THE SMELLY HOOKER", for example. Like a good book, a well-written adventure can make you forget you're just interacting with text. I have visual memories of the places I've visited in Zork and Leather Goddesses of Phobos. <p> This is good stuff. It can be a great change of pace when you're all jiggy from 3d-accelerated first-person carnage overload. Naturally, there are Linux versions of all the popular interpreters. Check out <a href="http://interactfiction.miningco.com/">this page</a> for lots more information about Interactive Fiction. | 5th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition | default | |
| 253 | 679 | 1999-04-29 09:55:29 | <img src="/images/thumbs/tux.gif" align=right width=200 height=144><em>Category:</em> Toy<br> <em>Description:</em> Watch as Tux the Linux Penguin, the FreeBSD Daemon, a Sun Microsystems-ish UFO, or the Silicon Graphics logo shoot Windows(TM)-ish icons out of the sky! <p> There's also a flying X11 icon mode for the non-violent types. | Flying Windows 0.1 | new | |
| 254 | 2 | 1999-04-29 10:03:26 | The <a href="http://www.freeciv.org">Freeciv website</a> has been moved to a new host, so hopefully this is the end of all the problems that have been plaguing the site for the last many weeks/months. Once again <a href="http://www.freeciv.org">http://www.freeciv.org</a> works as advertised. And it's faster than before, too! If you previously bookmarked weird addresses like <em>freesite.ultraviolet.org</em> or an IP address, don't forget to change these back. | www.freeciv.org lives again! | default | |
| 255 | 2 | 1999-04-29 21:17:15 | <img src="/images/thumbs/civctp_logo.gif" align=right width=150 height=124>As the thinkers among you may have already surmised, the winner of the autographed copy of <em>Civilization: Call To Power</em> is Chris Timmerberg of St. Louis, Missouri. Congratulations, Chris! And big thanks to <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Software</a> for contributing the kickass prize. <p> More than 500 of you stormed in here to register after I announced the contest! I'm sorry I didn't have more goodies to hand out this time around. Stay tuned, though: There's more Game Tome style lovin coming up! | We have a winner! | default | |
| 256 | 2 | 1999-04-29 23:04:42 | <img src="/images/thumbs/q3.gif" align=right width=100 height=95>Drop everything you're doing and fire up an FTP client. Q3Test for Linux has been released. It's available in RPM and tar.gz packages, but only in the glibc flavor. The files are about 22 megs each.<br> Try these download locations: <ul> <li><a href="ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.rpm">RPM file from id Software</a> (yeah, right) <li><a href="ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.tar.gz">tar.gz file from id Software</a> (good luck) <li><a href="http://tux.telefragged.com/file.pl?filename=q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.rpm&dir=quake3/linux/">RPM file from Telefragged</a> <li><a href="http://tux.telefragged.com/file.pl?filename=q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.tar.gz&dir=quake3/linux/">tar.gz file from Telefragged</a> <li><a href="ftp://ftp.linuxquake.com/pub/idstuff/quake3/linux/q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.rpm">RPM file from linuxquake.com</a> <li><a href="ftp://ftp.linuxquake.com/pub/idstuff/quake3/linux/q3test-1.03-glibc-6.i386.tar.gz">tar.gz file from linuxquake.com</a> </ul> | IT'S CHRISTMAS!! | default | |
| 257 | 2 | 1999-04-30 10:39:06 | The Tome was apparently down all last night. Sorry folks, I don't know what happened yet, but I'll look into it as I have time. My apologies. | Doh! | default | |
| 258 | 877 | 1999-05-02 18:23:05 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A classic multiplayer nibbles game<p> <em>Changelog:</em> GTK client has been improved, makefiles have been modified so you can compile with or without Motif and with or without GTK, new options with defaults make the game easier to start and world size is now configurable. | ZNibbles 0.0.6 | updated | |
| 259 | 2 | 1999-05-02 18:25:15 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> <em>Changelog:</em><ul> <li>Everything from msdos b11 & b 12 <li>Changed the way the makefile handles the generated c-files for the m68000 c-core again. Now openstep should be happy too. <li>Changed TRUE -> OSD_OK in a number of sounddrivers this should fix compile problems for: irix, netbsd_i386 and aix. <li>Added a spanish tranlation of the readme by Vicente Aguilar. </ul> | Xmame 0.35b12.1 | updated | |
| 260 | 2 | 1999-05-02 18:49:19 | <img src="/images/thumbs/q3test.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Description:</em> This is a 2 level test of the Quake 3 engine, and doesn't necessarily represe nt what the final game will be like, but still sure is fun. | Q3Test | new | |
| 261 | 2 | 1999-05-02 19:24:43 | Our pals over at <a href="http://www.linuxgames.com">linuxgames.com</a> are sporting a very attractive new look. Guess I should change the colors on the linuxgames news box to reflect this... They've also begun running some game servers at <em>middleearth.telefragged.com</em>. Specifically, there's a <a href="/show?q3test">q3test</a> and a <a href="/show?bzflag">BZFlag</a> server up for your amusement. Finally, the perfect compliment to your <a href="http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?service=net.357">happypenguin.org</a> My Netscape channel is the new <a href="http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?service=net.242">linuxgames.com</a> My Netscape channel. Collect 'em all! | linuxgames.com action | default |