| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3074 | 4 | 2002-11-09 02:43:38 | Form the <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html">Linux client page</a>: <p>Forgot to mention last week that we changed our Linux development platform from Mandrake to Redhat 8. We made this change mainly because we were getting reports of Redhat 8 compatibility issues and we wanted to deal with them directly. At this point, we believe we have fixed the high CPU utilization issues we were experiencing and they will be in the upcoming 1.27 update. The one thing that usually eats up half a day per week is sync'ing the codebase from Windows to Linux and finding the differences and changes that need to be Linux specific. We'll have some new screenshots next week.</p> | NWN weekly update | default | |
| 3075 | 4987 | 2002-11-09 19:57:53 | <img src="/images/thumbs/tua.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="126" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="2.86"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="2.86" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="2.86"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="2.86" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="2.86"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="2.86" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> A fun game where you eat fish and escape Bill Shark. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>timing is fixed!!! <li>some graphics are better (a font and the image for the next level) <li>collision detection better <li>the options mode is more like a menu so that people don't get confused and think that there are no options </ul> | TUA 2.5.0 | updated | TUA |
| 3076 | 2 | 2002-11-09 22:23:05 | <img src="/images/thumbs/VendettaTest.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> Space-combat deathmatch/CTF game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li> greatly improves collision checking and handling of latency, so the use of energy weapons at close proximity is now possibl plus a lot of other latency-related issues have been solved. <li>The ship's inventory can now be displayed with "o" (default binding, console command is /toggleinventory). <li>It's now possible to turbo while doing other things (chatting, using menus, etc). <li>Many other issues have been fixed, several new statistics are now being tracked in the database (the stats CGI doesn't yet support them, but that will be added), etc. <li>Some problems are still outstanding. Linux crashes with older non-T&L videocards and older mesa/GLX drivers may still occur. Characters are still auto-launched from stations, etc. </ul> | Vendetta TEST 3.1.0 | updated | Vendetta |
| 3077 | -1 | 2002-11-10 12:15:07 | <img src="/images/thumbs/Boson.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="130"><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Boson is an OpenGL real-time strategy game, with the feeling of C&C or StarCraft <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <br> Version 0.7 of Boson is primarily a port to OpenGL. List of major new features since 0.6.1: <ul> <li>Units and buildings are now all drawn with OpenGL, each with their own 3d model. <li>New particle system, which allows for explosions, fire and smoke <li>Upgrade support (experimental) <li>Multiple weapon per unit support (experimental) <li>Visible missile support (experimental) <li> Support for unit animation (currently only used for com-sat) <li> Improved cursor configurability <li> Pathfinding has been improved even more to make movement smarter <li> Documentation has been greatly improved <li> Many bug fixes </ul> | Boson 0.7 | updated | Boson |
| 3078 | -1 | 2002-11-11 18:54:16 | <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> An Ultima Online server emulator. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>NoX-Wizard 0.82 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded. This is only a packaged scripts & sources release, since we'll post soon the stable release with executables and installers. There are only minor bugs in this release, which will be killed in the next one. See the site for more informations. </ul> | NoX-Wizard 0.82RC1 | updated | NoX-Wizard |
| 3079 | 6668 | 2002-11-12 19:34:51 | <img src="/images/thumbs/LoW.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""> <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Rewrite of Ultima Underworld II for modern architectures <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>This version allows the player to navigate the entire game universe as well as manipulate objects and containers along with his character's inventory and paper doll. The physics system is also in place, allowing such antics as bouncing objects off monsters to push them off cliffs. Additionally, the program is now much more polite about incomplete or partial installations and will return an error message instead of just crashing. </ul> | Labyrinth of Worlds 0.2 | updated | Labyrinth of Worlds |
| 3080 | 5383 | 2002-11-12 19:49:42 | <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="4.42"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.42" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.42"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.42" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.42"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.42" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.42"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.42" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> A promising roguelike game. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Many bug-fixes and minor additions. An talent-system has been introduced (about 100 talents!). The complete list of changes is <a href="http://www.adom.de/adom/download.php3">here</a>. </ul> | ADOM 1.1.0 | updated | ADOM |
| 3081 | 704 | 2002-11-12 19:59:42 | <img src="/images/thumbs/xu4.png" align="right" width="200" height="150" alt=""> <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<p> <em>Description:</em> XU4 is a recreation of the classic computer game Ultima IV, a CRPG from the 80s.<br> The purpose of the project is to make it easy and convenient to play on modern operating systems. | XU4 0.08 | new | XU4 |
| 3082 | 2 | 2002-11-12 21:03:29 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="5.00"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="5.00" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> Displays the status of Internet Game servers. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Adds support for Ghost Recon <li>UT2003 (native protocol) <li>various broadcast query fixes <li>various other stuff you can read about in the <a href="http://www.qstat.org/qstat25c-notes.txt">release notes</a>. </ul> | QStat 2.5c | updated | QStat |
| 3083 | 2 | 2002-11-12 20:57:06 | <img src="/images/thumbs/WineX.jpg" alt="" align="right" width="200" height="150"><em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Run Windows games in Linux! Slowly! Unstably! Help prevent native ports! <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Support for glibc 2.3, which is now the default glibc version for Debian Unstable <li>Improvements in the quality of text rendering in Direct3D mode for WarCraft III and EverQuest <li>Direct3D geometry rendering improvements; EverQuest: Shadows of Luclin armour is now visible. <li>Performance improvements of 10% in some 3DMark2000 benchmarks <li>200-300% performance improvements in some Quake-3 engine based games such as Jedi Knight 2 <li>Massive performance improvements for some games such as EverQuest when running on stock RedHat 8.0 kernels <li>Support for Quake 3-Engine games based off of Quake 3 1.32 </ul> | WineX 2.2.1 | updated | Cedega (WineX) |