| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 335 | 2 | 1999-05-26 23:22:21 | <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><p> <em>Description:</em> General Aviation Simulator<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Tons of improvements with the scenery creation tools. Inter-tile gaps have been fixed, distorted textures have been fixed, real coastlines have been added, and many other subtle improvements. <li>Tools for parallelizing the scenery building tasks. For instance by using 20 Linux machines in parallel, scenery for the entire USA can be regenerated in just over 4 hours vs. 70+ hours on a single machine. <li>Texture scale can be specified (and changed) in the materials file. <li>FGFS now builds against Steve Baker's <a href="/show?plib">plib</a> <li>Fixed a bug so you can now fly across the international date line (or more precisely the division between longitude = +/-180. <li>Tweaks to the Astro section <li>Autopilot improvements <li>Fonts/characters now drawn with texture maps for increased speed. <li>Instrument panel can be toggled on and off with "P". <li>GUI interface for tweaking some autopilot parameters. <li>HUD appearance and layout changes includes faster font drawing for much better performance. <li>Reset function added to reset you to your starting conditions. <li>GUI function to enter a new airport id (and be transported there) <li>Added serial output support for an "in-development" full motion cockpit. <li>"Just in time" texture loading to reduce initial sim loading time. </ul> | Flight Gear Flight Sim 0.6.0 | updated | |
| 336 | -1 | 1999-05-27 13:38:04 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A Quake3 server browser for X.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> The new version has many bugfixes and a simpler more reliable installation. Also with this version the program can be run from anywhere and qstat just has to be in your path. | X11Spy 0.08 | updated | |
| 337 | 2 | 1999-05-27 17:55:04 | In an effort to avoid doing <em>real</em> work this afternoon, I slapped together a poll system for the Tome. It's on the left side of this page, below the New and Updated lists. Please holler if you break it, and feel free to suggest ideas for future polls. | Ooh! A pollbox! | default | |
| 338 | 2 | 1999-05-27 18:14:35 | <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><p> <a href="mailto:curt@me.umn.edu">Curt Olson</a>, the main dude behind the <a href="/show?Flight%20Gear%20Flight%20Sim">Flight Gear Flight Simulator</a>, has released a new build of USA scenery for the simulator that fixes several problems that were present in the previous version. The scenery is available for download <a href="ftp://ftp.aem.umn.edu/pub/fgfs/Scenery/USA-0.2/">here (Minnesota)</a> and <a href="ftp://ftp.kingmont.com/pub/kingmont/ftp_fgfs/Scenery/USA-0.2/">here (California)</a>, but beware, it's over 500 megabytes. If you'd rather receive the data on a CD-ROM instead, go check out <a href="http://www.infoplane.com/~curt/">this page</a>. | Flight Gear USA scenery | updated | |
| 339 | 2 | 1999-05-28 10:44:27 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A dedicated Linux server for Half-Life<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul>Changes for the Linux Server for this version: <li>"Say" no longer includes the server name in the 64 character limit. <li>Various crash fixes. <li>readline.so no longer required. </ul> <ul>Known Issues: <li>Some user maps still have load errors <li>MOTD can be sporadic on some machines <li>Setting a specific server ip address doesn't work </ul> This one's hefty: the full package is over 90 megs, and the upgrade from the previous version is 12 megs. Happy downloading! | Half Life dedicated server 1.0.1.0 | updated | |
| 340 | -1 | 1999-05-28 10:52:23 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><p> <em>Description:</em> NEStra is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for X.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Mapper 11 and partial mapper 9 support <li>Reload code after mapper switch (should fix -l problems) <li>Fixed a MMC3 bug. <li>Minor bugfix to mid-hblank updates. </ul> <p> <em><b>BZ:</b>Apparently Nintendo hasn't tried to squish this project yet, as they did with UltraHLE and Snes9x. I wonder if it's just below their radar, or if the NES is considered "old" technology that they don't have to protect.</em> | NEStra 0.62 | updated | |
| 341 | 2 | 1999-05-28 13:40:00 | <img src="/images/thumbs/blockade.jpg" align=right width=200 height=148><em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Description:</em> A sliding block game. Push differently shaped blocks onto each other to change their shape or make them disappear with the aim of clearing the grid of blocks. Comes with 80 different screens and built-in help. | Blockade 1.00 | new | |
| 342 | 2 | 1999-05-29 15:05:03 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> A Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator<p> <em>Changelog:</em> Snes9x is back online with a new host. The authors have concluded that Nintendo is blowing smoke and doesn't have a firm legal position from which to harass them. It warms my heart whenever a giant evil corporation fails to frighten an individual away from whatever he's doing. Good luck, guys! | Snes9X 1.19a | updated | |
| 343 | 2 | 1999-05-30 17:40:19 | I saw at <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/05/30/1359219&mode=nested">slashdot</a> that <a href="http://www.sierrastudios.com/">Sierra</a> is running a poll that asks <em>In what direction do you think Sierra Studios should expand their gaming expertise?</em>. One of the possible answers is "Linux Games", and it's far and wide the winning answer so far, thanks no doubt, to the slashdot effect. Hopefully Sierra'll take heed though. (*cough* Half-Life client port *cough*) | Tell Sierra to support Linux | default | |
| 344 | 2 | 1999-05-30 17:46:22 | Supreme Being John Carmack <a href="http://www.linuxquake.com/cgi-bin/finger?view=johnc@idsoftware.com">had some positive things to say</a> about RedHat 6.0, Matrox and open source today. I'm not gonna tell you what he said, though. Go read it yourself. | Carmack on linux and stuff | default |