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2523 -1 2002-05-26 07:45:23 <img src="/images/thumbs/screenshot_jungle.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> Auriferous is an arcade style like game, where you must collect goldpieces, fight with some monks and reach then a door to go into the next level. auriferous 1.0 new auriferous
2524 5976 2002-05-26 08:01:12 <img src="/images/thumbs/leibomber.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> A bomber-man like in 2D for 2 human players : fight with your adversary and monsters with bombs or rockets in an universe (sounds and sprites) extracted from Doom ! Leïbomber new Leïbomber
2525 -1 2002-05-26 08:36:30 <img src="/images/thumbs/XSoldier.jpg" align="right" width="114" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A Galaga-style space shoot-em-up <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>new developer <li>ported to SDL <li>README in English <li>the "not shooting" bonus --- you can get a pretty good score by not pressing the shoot button (as long as you can survive without pressing it, of course) <li>improved game balance <li>no spec file, no .rpm (Debian provides a binary package) </ul> XSoldier 1.3 updated XSoldier
2526 5949 2002-05-26 08:41:22 <img src="/images/thumbs/gl-117.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>rearranged source code <li>improved intro <li>new fighters <li>advanced missile AI and different missile types <li>replaced font <li>updated GNU configure tool <li>new soundtrack <li>some bugfixes </ul> GL-117 0.3.5 updated GL-117
2527 3 2002-05-26 09:38:13 <img src="/images/thumbs/Unreal1installer.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="100" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Description:</em> Chunky's announcement on <a href="http://linuxgames.com/">Linuxgames</a>:<p> <i>I've put together an Unreal I installer for Linux for if you have UT installed and an Unreal I CD. It's like the old unrealI installer was, but it's cooler for several reasons:<br><ul> <li>It doesn't complain about opening vortex2 when you try to start a new game <li>It has modified openUT stuff for things like prefs dir being ~/.loki/unreal <li>It uses Loki_setup <li>The secondary storage footprint is much smaller, since most stuff ends up symlinked out of the UT dir.</i></ul> Unreal I Installer new Unreal I Installer
2528 4666 2002-05-26 10:19:37 <img src="/images/thumbs/teg-0_3_2.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A clone of TEG (a Risk clone) <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Includes the new theme Draco, by wfx <li>New play mode: Fog of War, suggested by Thomas R. Koll <li>New toolbar, with usefull info <li>Added a way to localize the countries <li>Robots can be launched in the server <li>All translations are up-to-date! <li>Improved the score system </ul> Tenes Empanadas Graciela 0.10.0 updated Tenes Empanadas Graciela
2529 -1 2002-05-27 04:19:31 <img src="/images/thumbs/zn002.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Emulator<p> <em>Description:</em> ZiNc is an emulator for Sony ZN-1 and ZN-2 and Namco System 11 arcade hardware. These systems are all based around the familiar PlayStation game console with varying degrees of modifications. It replaces the old Impact and S11emu emulators, which are now obsolete and no longer supported. ZiNc ZN1/System 11 emulator 0.9 new ZiNc ZN1/System 11 emulator
2530 2 2002-05-27 12:49:26 <img src="/images/thumbs/cloneshot.gif" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> A realtime strategy war simulation - Plays Warcraft II <p> <em>Changelog:</em> Changes since 1.16.1: <ul> <li> The project is renamed to Freecraft and the source and media license is changed to GPL. <li>Complete network code rewritten to support internet play. <li> Removed many hardcoded stuff, nearly everything is now configurable with our scheme scripts. <li>Menus and network menus are added. <li> Complete new AI for computer player written. <li> Now supports playing campaigns with showing pictures and level briefings. <li>Can cast all original spells. <li> Can play background music in MOD/OGG/MP3 format or from CD-ROM. <li> Kills are counted and the units can collect experience points. <li>Supports loading everything from ZIP files. <li> The screen can be split into multiple viewports. <li> The improved GUI supports double click, modifier clicks and long clicks. <li>And about 100 bugs are fixed. </ul> FreeCraft 1.17 updated FreeCraft
2531 3 2002-05-27 16:25:37 <img src="/images/thumbs/UTCacheManager.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<p> <em>Description:</em> When you play with Unreal Tournament over the Internet, your Ut client will download maps, textures, sounds, musics files that you do not already have on your system. These files are kept in the Ut cache directory. When you are using UtCacheManager, these files will be incorporated in your Ut base system, so that you can use them when playing practice sessions. UtCacheManager 1.0 new UtCacheManager
2532 3 2002-05-28 12:58:43 <img src="/images/thumbs/gnocatan.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="*"> <p> <em>Description:</em> Multiplayer game inspired by Settlers of Catan <p> <em>Changelog:</em> After some last fixes[1] Gnocatan 0.7.0 is now released! The complete changelog since 0.6.1 is:<p><ul> <li>colors in messages and player summary (optional) <li>splash screen before first connect <li>ai player <li>dice histogram <li>ports are rendered more nicely <li>chat knows /beep NAME and /me now <li>legend can optionally be displayed as page besides map <li>connect dialog has a box for recent servers <li>connect dialog has a field which meta server to connect <li>new option how to handle 7 in first two rounds <li>disconnected clients can reconnect the server and resume the game <li>IPv6 support <li>meta server stores a bit more data about registered servers (victory points and sevens rule) <li>if you ask a meta server from the connect dialog, you can also request it to start a new server <li>console server has a bunch of new options and cleaned up usage string <li>GTK server has a text field which meta server to register to <li>misc fixes all over the place </ul> [1]: building on SuSE, update README an INSTALL files, fixed a few segfaults that happen only with 'The Pond' Gnocatan 0.7.0 updated Gnocatan