| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 425 | 2 | 1999-06-28 12:43:17 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> An alternative way to query Quake 2 and Q3test servers<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Favorites support! When you see one or more servers you like, select them and use the Add to Favorites menu item. <li>Full server refresh! Selecting one or more servers and hitting the Refesh button will update all server information by realtime querying each server. This includes ping, map, game, clients and maxclients, as well as the player list. Note that Ping Only is still available (because its faster) but has been moved into the menu. <li>Message of the day support. This news dialog will popup anytime we have important news for you, like updates, zpdb downtime, etc. </ul> | GameStalker 1.03 | updated | |
| 426 | -1 | 1999-06-28 15:54:29 | <img src="/images/thumbs/completed_game.jpg" align=right width=180 height=200><em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> "MasterMind" (R) clone for Linux<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Some graphic added (pixmaps, etc..) <li>improvements were made to the underlying code and function libraries </ul> | Code Breaker 1.2.0 | updated | |
| 427 | 2 | 1999-06-29 11:20:29 | Remember, tonight at 8PM Central (1AM GMT) <a href="http://www.ttalk.com/shows/thelinuxshow/thelinuxshow.shtml">The Linux Show</a> will interview <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Software</a> luminaries Scott Draeker, Sam Latinga, Michael Vance and Kathryn Sorhaindo, live. You'll have the opportunity to ask them questions via phone (1-888-591-8324) or IRC (irc.pinnatel.com:6665, #linuxshow). Don't miss it. It oughtta be a good show. (And live questioning ought to help us determine just how sophisticated this "Scott Draeker" AI really is) | Live Loki Chat Tonight | default | |
| 428 | 2 | 1999-06-29 15:52:05 | <a href="http://linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal</a>, everyone's favorite paper source for Linux information, has a short <a href="http://linuxjournal.com:82/articles/business/006.html">article about Linux gaming</a> at their website. Author <a href="mailto:david@ssc.com">David Penn</a> talks about the relationship between Linux and the gaming industry, quotes folks like Scott Draeker, Dave Taylor and Graeme Devine, and generally paints a rosy picture for Linux and its future as a commercial gaming platform. Although from reading this article you'd never know that open source games exist, and vastly outnumber their commercial brethren, it's worth a read anyway. | Linux Journal gaming article | default | |
| 429 | 2 | 1999-06-29 17:04:33 | <em>Category:</em> Emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4"><p> <em>Description:</em> A Sega Genesis emulator for linux using SDL.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Battery save ram support. Now save games in most games that use it work. <li>CPU core hot-swap. Now, if you compile both StarScream and Musashi in, you can toggle between them in-game! <li>Joystick mapping is now configurable from dgenrc. <li>DGen/SDL can be compiled under BeOS! Thanks Andrew Bazan! Check out <a href="http://www.sitebe.com/abazan/DGen.html">his page</a> for precompiled binaries and other info. <li>Major speed tweaking; it's about 10-20% faster than v1.14! <li>Lots of bugfixes, read the README file for the full list. </ul> | DGen/SDL 1.15 | updated | |
| 430 | 2 | 1999-06-30 09:23:50 | <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<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> Pingus is a Lemmings-like game for Linux.<p> <a href="mailto:grumbel@gmx.de">Ingo Ruhnke</a> sent this message to the Pingus mailing list: <blockquote> I uploaded the Pingus version which I used/edited at the <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag</a>, a Linux event in Germany. It contains three special levels, some bug fixes and tweaks over version 0.1.0. <p> It can be downloaded at: <a href="http://dark.x.dtu.dk/~grumbel/pingus/pingus-LinuxTag.Special.Edition.tar.gz">http://dark.x.dtu.dk/~grumbel/pingus/pingus-LinuxTag.Special.Edition.tar.gz</a> <p> I have commited all bug fixes and improvements to CVS, without the special levels, I'll try to seperate them in an extra file, but that can take some time. </blockquote> | Pingus: The Special Edition | updated | |
| 431 | -1 | 1999-06-30 09:29:08 | <img src="/images/thumbs/kalpha5.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Description:</em> Kombatant is a 2D side scroller fighting game with roto-matted video captured images for characters in the spirit of Mortal Kombat. It is built for network play and uses UDP/IP. It is in alpha release. That means it works and is stable but a few more months are required to add more kombatants and make the game world more interesting. | Kombatant Alpha | new | |
| 432 | 1773 | 1999-06-30 17:52:11 | <em>Category:</em> Action<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> A 2D shoot-the-monsters maze game for X<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Improved character movement <li>joystick support <li>an excellent random maze generator <li>more mazes <li>the Green Vaccuum can now suck you up <li>new wall tiles <li>an install procedure <li>more! </ul> (Also, the webpage has moved) | XRoads 0.5 | updated | |
| 433 | 2 | 1999-07-01 09:24:41 | <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support.<p> <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Entertainment Software</a> announced this new version of their free MPEG library during their live chat on <a href="http://www.ttalk.com/shows/thelinuxshow/thelinuxshow.shtml">The Linux Show</a> the other night. It's not clear what has changed since the previous version. If you've got the previous version, start diff'ing! | SDL MPEG Library 0.2.4 | updated | |
| 434 | 2 | 1999-07-01 09:57:49 | I saw at <a href="http://www.linuxgames.com">Linxugames.com</a> that <a href="http://www.linuxworld.com">LinuxWorld.com</a> is running two pieces on Linux games. The first is <a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-civilization.html">a review of Civilization:Call To Power</a> and the other is a more general <a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-vcontrol_5.html">article about Linux gaming</a>. I haven't had a chance to read these myself yet, but I love you all too much not to share them with you.<br> <b>Update:</b> Now both URLs are correct. Sorry! | Linuxworld gaming articles | default |