| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 272 | 854 | 1999-05-06 16:21:49 | <em>Category:</em> Action<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="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A funny action game written with SDL<p> <em>Changelog:</em><ul> <li>better collision <li>new background <li>random level order <li>bonus time for every completed level <li>more levels <li>numbers now blitted correctly </ul> | BumpRace 0.70 | updated | |
| 273 | 679 | 1999-05-06 18:03:17 | <em>Category:</em> Toy<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> Flying X11 or Windows(TM) icons screensaver.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> Good-guys are now full-color XPMs. | Flying Windows 0.2 | updated | |
| 274 | 2 | 1999-05-06 18:43:42 | Based on the feedback I've received from you folks recently, I've rewritten the code that handles comments and ratings. <ul> <li>You may now post comments without logging in, but you still have to log in to rate games. <li>You can change ratings you've previously submitted. Just submit another rating and it'll magically take the place of the first. <li>Only 10 comments are displayed at a time now. The number of comments for some games is getting pretty high. </ul> Let me know if you encounter any nasties that I didn't catch. | Game Tome updates | default | |
| 275 | 2 | 1999-05-07 16:19:35 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<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> An excellent X-based Quake/Quakeworld/Quake2 server browser<p> <em>Changelog:</em><ul> <li>Added options to save server/player information on exit. <li>Added server/master status icons. <li>Enabled displaying of bit-field server flags (dmfalgs, teamplay, etc...). <li>Optional data file compression (hosthame cache, server lists, saved server/player info). <li>QStat2.3c compatibility /<b>Quake3 servers browsing</b>. <li>A lot of bug fixes and minor improvements. </ul> | XQF 0.8.99.2 | updated | |
| 276 | 1432 | 1999-05-07 19:41:33 | <img src="/images/thumbs/az.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> Each player designs and programs an army of robots. Robot code is compiled into a platform independent binary form and then transfered to each player's computer where it is compiled into native machine code. The game is almost complete, but needs people to work on linux graphics support, sound, debugging , etc. | Automata Zero 0.0.4.0 (alpha) | new | |
| 277 | 2 | 1999-05-07 21:31:34 | <img src="/images/quadra_shot1.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><a href="mailto:pp@ludusdesign.com">Pierre Phaneuf</a> of <a href="http://ludusdesign.com">Ludus Design</a> wrote in to announce that they'll soon release Quadra, a shareware, TCP/IP multiplayer Tetris-like game for Linux & Win32. It looks like only an SVGAlib version is planned right now. The game will be available for download on May 24, and after 30 days, you'll have to cough up $10US to keep playing. | Quadra is coming | default | |
| 278 | 810 | 1999-05-09 19:47:49 | <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 3D search/explore/puzzle<p> <em>Changelog:</em> Minor revision to fix install issues on some Linux distributions - and also some bug fixes that seem to matter to Alpha CPU's. | Tux the Penguin - A Quest for Herring 1.0.2 | updated | |
| 279 | 2 | 1999-05-09 20:06:26 | <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<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="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> Pingus is a Lemmings-like game for Linux.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> This version wouldn't compile with ClanLib 0.1.14, it will only compile with the CVS version or the upcoming 0.1.15. <p> Two new levels are included (level1.plf and level2.plf), to demonstrate the abilities of the new spot map and the good old bitmap map. Some actions are improved a bit. Some more documentation is included. And a new cool trap is included, thanks to Michael Mestre. <p> <b>NOTES:</b> Pingus is now hosted at a different site, so update your bookmarks. Also, Pingus was <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/05/09/1946218">discovered by Slashdot</a> today, so it'll probably be difficult getting through for awhile. | Pingus 0.0.14 | updated | |
| 280 | 1442 | 1999-05-09 20:24:03 | <img src="/images/thumbs/linberto.jpg" align=right width=200 height=125><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> It is a jump around arcade game. Main features: nice graphics, music, sound fx, english/spanish language support, runtime help and setup, built in level editor and much more. Source code and ELF binary included. | Linberto 1.0.0 | new | |
| 281 | 2 | 1999-05-09 20:44:50 | <img src="/images/thumbs/cs2.jpg" align=right width=200 height=155><a href="http://3d.linart.krakow.pl">Crystal View</a>, a new site for people creating worlds with the <a href="/show?crystal%20space">Crystal Space</a> engine, has just gone online. Crystal view is a public repository of textures, objects, worlds, tools, and anything else relevent to creating Crystal Space worlds. <a href="mailto:gilead@linart.krakow.pl">Max Gilead</a> is the site's maintainer. | Crystal View goes live | default |