| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 3795 | 2 | 2003-06-19 08:07:37 | <a href="/images/xmame-pacman.gif"><img src="/images/thumbs/xmame-pacman.gif" align="right" alt="" height="180" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="4.92"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.92" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.92"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.92" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.92"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.92" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.92"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.92" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.92"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.92" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> An arcade game emulator with support for over 2000 games. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Almost everything from MAME 0.70 and MESS 0.70. <li>Changed an instance of MAME_DEBUG to DEBUG in unix.mak. <li>Removed an obsolete (?) #include from osdutils.h <li>Fixed some unused variable warnings when building non-debug versions of glgen.c and esound.c. <li>Fixed the default values for -sysinfo_file and -messinfo_file <li>Fixed the handling of leading zeros in the fractional part of a float in src/unix/snprintf.c. <li> Building 'tools' for xmess works again. <li>Reduced the core changes needed to support networking, rapidfire, and IRIX-specific support. <li>The numeric keypad '*' key is now mapped correctly for SDL builds. <li>The GLmame version string is now printed to stderr instead of stdout </ul> | Xmame 0.70.1 | updated | Xmame |
| 3796 | 2 | 2003-06-19 10:17:59 | <a href="/images/gl117.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/gl117.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="4.50"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.50" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.50"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.50" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.50"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.50" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.50"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.50" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.50"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.50" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>faster rendering (occlusion culling: ray casting) <li>more interface options (multiple joysticks) <li>difficulty changes/adjustments (easier missions) <li>two new missions <li>lots of visual improvements <li>lots of bugfixes </ul> | GL-117 0.9 | updated | GL-117 |
| 3797 | 3 | 2003-06-20 07:51:14 | <a href="/images/nwn.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/nwn.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="4.08"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.08" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.08"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.08" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.08"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.08" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.08"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.08" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> Linux client port of the popular Dungeons and Dragons engine <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <br>In addition to using the game resources from an existing Windows installation, you can now download the game resources (1.13 GB) from <a href="http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=2508">Fileshack</a> (login required).<p> On a related note, Ravage's installer previously hosted on icculus.org appears to have vanished into thin air, please correct me if I'm wrong <i>(Thanks, zakk!)</i>. <p> BioWare's first official expansion pack <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/shadows/">Shadows of Undrentide</a> has been released and can be purchased from <a href="http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?id=470691&nc=1056114325&gameref=110">TuxGames</>. | Neverwinter Nights Client 1.29 | updated | Neverwinter Nights Client |
| 3798 | 3 | 2003-06-20 11:21:34 | <a href="/images/pfxII_01.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/pfxII_01.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="173" width="200"></a> <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> Build bridges and see if they hold <p> <em>Changelog since 1.2:</em> <ul> <li>changed text brightness <li>changed car engine sound <li>added levels extra03,extra04, and extra08 into the patch for people updating from version 1.0, 1.05, or 1.06. </ul> | Pontifex 2 1.25 | updated | Bridge Construction Set |
| 3799 | 3 | 2003-06-20 11:23:28 | <a href="/images/wordpeace.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/wordpeace.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="149" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<p> <em>Description:</em> Word Peace is a new word game from Chronic Logic. In Word Peace you are given a hexagonal board in which you must create as many words as possible. By using all 3 directions you can score points in many different ways. Anyone can learn how to play in minutes. | Word Peace 1.0 | new | Word Peace |
| 3800 | 3 | 2003-06-20 12:01:50 | <a href="/images/Simutrans1.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/Simutrans1.jpg" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Simulation<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="3.94"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3.94" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="3.94"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3.94" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="3.94"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3.94" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="3.94"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="3.94" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> Simutrans is a transport and economical simulation game. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>This release includes Adam Barclays new language reading code. Simutrans now reads up to 40 language files from the "text" subdirectory. <li>It inludes some support for the new food industry chain that Tomas Kubes is working on <li>There've been some bugfixes regarding memory management, particularly dangling pointers, buffer overflows and uninitialised variables. <li>It also includes a new finnish translation by Antti Louko <alou@sci.fi> <li>I've tried to optimize some of the graphics routines. The gain was small on my system, about 5% speedup, so most likely you won't notice a change there. </ul> | Simutrans 0.81.33exp | updated | Simutrans |
| 3801 | 2 | 2003-06-20 21:36:48 | <a href="/images/cloneshot.gif"><img src="/images/thumbs/cloneshot.gif" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.29"><img src="/images/star.gif" alt="4.29" border="0"></a> <p> <em>Description:</em> A realtime strategy war simulation - Plays Warcraft II <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <blockquote><i>As of June 20th, Freecraft is shut down. The development team recieved a 'Cease and Desist' order due to the name 'Freecraft' causing possible confusion with the names Starcraft and Warcraft, and also some of the ideas within the engine were too similar to Warcraft 2. There will be no more updates to this game, and it is no longer available for download.</i></blockquote> <p> <b>bobz:</b> A software company worth bazillions has just successfully saved itself from ruin by squashing a free hobby project. Whew, that was close. Congratulations, <a href="http://www.blizzard.com">Blizzard</a>. | FreeCraft shuts down after Cease and Desist from Blizzard | updated | FreeCraft |
| 3802 | 2 | 2003-06-21 12:22:22 | <a href="/images/sf3.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/sf3.png" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Description:</em> The goal of Project LRNJ is to make learning Japanese fun and easy enough for people who are only casually interested. Slime Forest is the prototype line for an RPG that teaches Japanese reading. It resembles a NES RPG with a battle system based on recognizing kana and kanji. | Project LRNJ: Slime Forest | new | Project LRNJ: Slime Forest |
| 3803 | -1 | 2003-06-21 12:18:05 | <a href="/images/GtkAtlantic.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/GtkAtlantic.png" align="right" alt="" height="148" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Board Games<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#ffff80" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font> <p> <em>Description:</em> GtkAtlantic is a client for playing Monopoly-like board games on monopd servers. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <br>The client is now entirely playable, entering in long testing mode to remove all bugs before add new features | GtkAtlantic 0.2.9 | updated | GtkAtlantic |
| 3804 | 8157 | 2003-06-21 12:21:45 | <a href="/images/heroes3-3.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/heroes3-3.png" align="right" alt="" height="150" width="200"></a> <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Description:</em> Babelize is a project to localize as many as possible games (commercial or free) that were ported nativly to Linux like that from Lokigames or Linuxgamepublishing. At this moment it works with Heroes of Might and Magic 3. You can play this game in english or german. | Babelize Localization Project 1.0.0 | new | Babelize Localization Project |