| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 9149 | 4 | 2009-03-12 07:12:19 | <a href="/images/sing_0.1.0.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/sing_0.1.0.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="156"></a> <em>Category: </em>action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><font color="#FF8" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> The free Linux karaoke game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Multiplayer with Singstar mics or any other stereo input <li>Dramatically improved performance, runs fine on very slow machines now <li>Fully OpenGL-based (some kind of 3D acceleration is now mandatory, but even Intel works fine) <li>Heavily pimped graphics in singing screen <li>Automatically zooming notelines in singing screen <li>Real widescreen support (adaptive layout instead of stretching or cropping) <li>Song folders are now scanned recursively, in the background without blocking the UI <li>Ingame and preview volume may be controlled <li>Audio roundtrip latency and audio/video sync controls added <li>New score window (still no highscores) <li>New menu theme song <li>Separate game engine thread, so that slow graphics rendering should no longer affect pitch detection <li>Our own audio library libda, supporting ALSA, Pulseaudio, JACK and others <li>FFMPEG-based video and audio decoding (together with libda replaces Xine and GStreamer) <li>CMake-based build (Autotools are gone for good) </ul> | Performous 0.3.0 | updated | Performous |
| 9150 | 4 | 2009-03-12 07:28:47 | <a href="/images/snap5.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/snap5.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>board<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.28"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.28" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.28"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.28" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.28"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.28" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.28"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.28" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Go game file editor and KGS server client <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>No word on what's changed.</ul> | cgoban2 3.3.24 | updated | cgoban2 |
| 9151 | 4 | 2009-03-12 07:29:02 | <em>Category: </em>emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> An emulator of the C64 and other 8-bit computers by Commodore <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>The VICEplus project has been joined with VICE. Thus, x64dtv is now part of VICE. <li>Added a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math (ReSID-FP). <li>Added support for the USB HardSID. <li>PAL emulation has been rewritten and optimized. <li>Fixed the ACIA 6551 emulation. (x64/x128/xcbm2/xpet/xplus4) <li>Monitor commands help text is now translated too (in ports where translation is available at all) <li>Monitor IO command now displays IO area even if it is currently banked out. <li>GCR file handling (.G64) issues an error message if the .G64 does not have the expected outline. Before, VICE just silently ignored such files. <li>IRQ handling fix <li>And a lot of system specific fixes.</ul> | VICE 2.1 | updated | VICE |
| 9152 | 4 | 2009-03-12 07:32:45 | <p>Ryan Gordon sent the following message to the UT3 for Linux mailing list: <blockquote> <pre> I just wanted to drop a note and say that the UT3 linux and mac work is still ongoing. Largely we're just optimizing and fixing annoying bugs at the moment. No release date at the moment. Yes, I know we're already 16 months late. I'm sorry, we'll get you the game as soon as we can. Thanks for your eternal patience, --ryan. </pre> </blockquote> | A message regarding UT3 | default | |
| 9153 | 4 | 2009-03-12 21:17:30 | <a href="/images/1-gtk.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/1-gtk.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="147"></a> <em>Category: </em>util<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.06"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.06" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.06"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.06" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.06"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.06" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.06"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.06" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Multiplatform installer for Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, others <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Autoupdate functionality available for Windows and Linux <li>Quickbuild functionality now can do incremental builds and only repackage new or changed files <li>Support for right to left languages in Qt mode, in particular Arabic is now included <li>Enhanced keyboard navigation on Qt mode <li>New rule for components, folders and shortcuts, allows specifying at build time whether to pack or not the given element <li>New action, allows to perform basic arithmetic calculations <li>New action, allows configuring the file system redirection behaviour on Windows 64-bit systems <li>New rule, allows checking whether a key or value exists on the Windows registry <li>New property, allows customizing the application entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software <li>Ability to change the version information of generated Windows installers. This is the information that appears when you position the mouse over the icon. <li>Custom style installers were not showing left image with parameter groups <li>Fix typo in Dutch localization <li>Fix addUnixDesktopStartUpItem not working on latest Ubuntu 8.10 <li>Fix InstallBuilder problems as admin when running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard <li>Using runProgram with runAs option will now bring a graphical prompt on Linux systems with gksu or kdesu available when the installer is not already running with admin privileges <li>External included files will now be serialized to separate files on disk when using the GUI <li>New java_autodetected variable. Set to 0 unless autodetectJava action is successful and sets it to 1. <li>Fix issue with builder CLI on Windows not working properly <li>New .escape_backslashes suffix for escaping backslashes in values. Useful when dealing with Java properties <li>New shutdown action to reboot the machine on Windows <li>Fix addDirectoryToPath not working in previous version of InstallBuilder </ul> | BitRock InstallBuilder 6.0 | updated | BitRock InstallBuilder |
| 9154 | 4 | 2009-03-12 21:43:25 | <a href="/images/qscore.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/qscore.png" align="right" alt="" width="153" height="200"></a> <em>Category: </em>util<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><font color="#FF8" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A parser for Q3A based game logs <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>some code cleanups and minor changes <li>updated (qmaps_php) the PHP code a bit, made it faster <li>added example for a default game server installation to the contributions <li>added (qmaps) --repack option to make maps independent from a game or map pack</ul> | qscore 0.8.1 | updated | qscore |
| 9155 | 4 | 2009-03-13 07:09:37 | <a href="/images/Sshot_05_2.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/Sshot_05_2.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="152"></a> <em>Category: </em>arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.26"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.26" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.26"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.26" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.26"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.26" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.26"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.26" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> A go-kart racing game featuring Tux and friends <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>fixes some minor bugs <li>adds a new kart <li>a new battle map <li>better support for add-on packages <li>also released a first add-on package, which contains 7 additional karts and 6 tracks</ul> | SuperTuxKart 0.6.1a | updated | SuperTuxKart |
| 9156 | 4 | 2009-03-13 07:26:08 | <a href="/images/donkey_screen.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/donkey_screen.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="164"></a> <em>Category: </em>puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><font color="#FF8" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Match donkeys by using a bubble as a trap <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Now the game can be played in a window with pixels of double size. <li>Also an icon was added.</ul> | Donkey Bolonkey 1.1 | updated | Donkey Bolonkey |
| 9157 | 4 | 2009-03-13 07:37:03 | <a href="/images/Oa_rev1489_ingame1.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/Oa_rev1489_ingame1.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="154"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.23"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.23" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.23"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.23" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.23"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.23" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.23"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.23" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> OpenSource Strategy-Game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>There are new tile graphics. <li>There's a main square, where people can get their resources. <li>We added lots of new trees. <li>A free trader who will buy and sell your resources has been added. <li>Buildings can now be seen in preview before they are placed. <li>We revamped the building graphics. <li>We added voice-overs for a few important events, and a new song.</ul> | Unknown Horizons 2009.0 | updated | Unknown Horizons |
| 9158 | 4 | 2009-03-13 14:28:33 | <a href="/images/Screenshot-Snes9x-1.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/Screenshot-Snes9x-1.png" align="right" alt="" width="197" height="200"></a> <em>Category: </em>emulator<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.34"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.34" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Snes9x emulator ported to GTK. <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Fixed shared memory leak when using XVideo driver. <li>Fixed compilation with the --with-debugger flag. <li>Added a 4:3 aspect ratio option for Maintain Aspect Ratio. <li>Added several new automatic sizing options to the View menu. <li>Added an OSS sound driver, and configuration to select which sound drivers to compile in, and which to use from those built in.</ul> | snes9x-gtk version 68 | updated | snes9x-gtk |