| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 615 | 2 | 1999-08-29 12:50:31 | <em>Category:</em> Action<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> Linux client port of Xatrix first person shooter Kingpin<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>New "g_mapcycle_file" variable, to set the cycle list to something other than "maps.lst" or "teammaps.lst" <li>Added "kickban" command to server (works same as "kick <id>" but also adds the ip to the filter list) <li>Download skins option in Player Setup menu <li>added "time" command to consol <li>fixed server exploit <li>alterations to voting system <li>client model server crash with dm_locational_damage enabled <li>Invisible player models for unknown female skins <li>Chasecam observer mode <li>New "Push Download" tech for faster file transfers <li>Make download system backwards compatible with old servers AND old clients <li>Lots, lots more changes. See the changelog in the tarfile for the whole list. </ul> | Kingpin Client 1.20 | updated | |
| 616 | 2 | 1999-08-29 13:31:13 | <a href="/images/parsec_aug99.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/parsec_aug99.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150></a> <a href="mailto:msh@parsec.org">Markus Hadwiger</a> sent me a heads-up about some new stuff at the <a href="http://www.parsec.org">Parsec Homepage</a>: <blockquote><i> We've just updated the Parsec Homepage with a new screenshot showing an entirely new spacecraft, background nebula, and planet. We've also added a new EVENTS section in the news, to reminisce of major Parsec-related events in the past along with a couple of nice photos, like our booth at LinuxTag and the conference talks we have given in the past. The WORK IN PROGRESS section (also in the news) has also been updated to reflect what we're working on right now/got done over the last several weeks. </i></blockquote> They're looking for name ideas for the nifty spaceship in the screenshot to the right. If you have ideas, send them to <a href="mailto:parsec@parsec.org">parsec@parsec.org</a>. Parsec is a multiplatform multiplayer 3D space dogfighting game currently under development. | Parsec news | default | |
| 617 | 2 | 1999-08-29 13:52:39 | <img src="/images/thumbs/rollemup.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> This is a binary-only pinball game from Lostboys Media Lab, demonstrating their cross-platform Lost Platform C++ application development framework. <p> Everything about this game is slick and professional. Great sound and graphics, and no fancy extra libraries are needed.<br> Thanks, <a href="mailto:Guillaume.Duwelz-Rebert@alcatel.fr">Guillaume Duwelz-Rebert</a>. | Roll 'm Up | new | |
| 618 | 392 | 1999-08-29 16:22:36 | <em>Category:</em> Strategy<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> action-strategy networked game<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>units which can drive and build <li>bugfixes - for details see <a href="http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~thiele/tud_change.html">http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~thiele/tud_change.html</a> </ul> We are going towards 1.0. Please help ! | TUD (The Urgent Decision) 0.9.0 | updated | |
| 619 | 2197 | 1999-08-29 16:24:11 | <img src="/images/thumbs/newer_board_1.gif" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Description:</em> X ARCHON pits the light side against the dark side in a battle for the control of a chess-like playing board. <p> It is a clone of the classic ARCHON game that was distributed by Electronic Arts around 1985. <p> There is a strategy part to X ARCHON, in which you move creatures on chessboard, but more fun is the tactic part, which begins when two creatures want the same board-square. The tactic part ends when only one of the two creatures is left standing . . . | X ARCHON 0.21 | new | |
| 620 | 2023 | 1999-08-30 13:43:20 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A multiplayer, portable, french tetris clone<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <UL> <LI>themes to make twin suits your needs, <LI>spy mode, to make you to see your opponents, <LI>high scores when you play alone <LI>victory counter when you play with friends </UL> | twinTRIS 0.80 | updated | |
| 621 | 2 | 1999-08-30 14:17:49 | <img src="/images/turnip.gif" align=right width=91 height=107><a href="mailto:merold@garden.net">Samantha Merold</a> is the lucky winner of the Find the Turnip contest! I drew her name from more than 500 entries. <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Entertainment Software</a> will send Samantha a shiny new copy of <a href="http://happypenguin.org/show?Myth%20II%3A%20Soulblighter">Myth II: Soulblighter</a> for her very own. Congratulations, Samantha! <p> <a href="mailto:johnm@inlink.com">John McClenning</a>, <a href="mailto:caine@ebox.tninet.se">Anders Holmquist</a>, and <a href="mailto:nguyenwq@cs.ucdavis.edu">William Nguyen</a> are the three lucky(?) runners-up who win pictures of my cat, Mandelbrot, posing cutely beside a Myth II box. <p> Curiously, there has been some demand for me to display a photograph of Mandelbrot here for all to see. I feel that to do so now would cheapen the hard-won prizes of our runners-up, and so I am not going to capitulate. I <i>do</i> understand that the actual purpose of the Web is to allow people to share pictures of their cats (along with their personal poetry), but circumstances dictate that I cannot share at this time. | Myth II contest winners | default | |
| 622 | -1 | 1999-08-31 10:11:20 | <img src="/images/thumbs/snap2.jpg" align=right width=200 height=143><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> Qt based real-time strategy game<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Important bug fixes <li>Unit fixes <li>Sound and music added <li>soundset-0.3.tar.gz is now required <li>Libmikmod is now required for sound support <li>Tips for porting to Qt2.0 added in README </ul> | Anachronism 0.3 | updated | |
| 623 | 2211 | 1999-08-31 16:24:17 | <img src="/images/thumbs/ascr1.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Description:</em> Amphetamine is an exciting Jump'n run game that offers some unique visual effects like colored lighting, fogging and coronas. You must fight eleven evil monsters with your magic weapons. | Amphetamine 0.8.1 | new | |
| 624 | 2 | 1999-08-31 19:15:54 | <img src="/images/thumbs/myth2-menu.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A 3D, fantasy-themed real time strategy game.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Fixed linking problem that prevented the Glide binary from running on SuSE 6.2 and Debian (Slink). <li>Many compatibility fixes for various window managers <li>Various networking / Bungie.net fixes. <li>Keyboard bugfixes. The correct key names now appear in the keybindings configuration panel. <li>Much better cut and paste support with other X11 applications. </ul> Download the patch from <a href="ftp://ftp.lokigames.com/pub/patches/myth2/">Loki's FTP site</a> or <a href="ftp://happypenguin.org/pub/loki/myth2/patches">happypenguin.org</a>. Note that this is a patch for the retail version, not the playable demo. | Myth II: Soulblighter 1.3a | updated |