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39 315 1998-12-26 20:45:42 <img src="/images/thumbs/freeciv.gif" height=143 width=200 align=right><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> A free clone of Microprose's Civilization game.<p> This update fixes lots and lots of bugs and adds many new features as well. Among them: <ul> <li>New "easy" AI mode, which is now the default. <li>Ability to save and re-load client settings <li>Ability to use pre-designed maps. <li>Compatibility with the Xaw3d widget library. <li>Many user interface improvements </ul> <p> Freeciv 1.7.2 updated
41 2 1998-12-27 02:01:45 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> Xmame, one of the wonders of the modern gaming world, has just been updated. Get your copy quick, before they run out! <p> What's new from the release announcement: <ul> <li>Everything from dos rc 2 <li>Added mouse grabbing, press left-alt + page-down to grab the mouse under X, press it again to release it. Use -grabmouse to start with the mouse grabbed. <li>Added invisible mousecursor for people using focus follows mouse, use -nocursor to make the cursor invisible, grabbing the mouse as above also makes it invisible. This was kindly contributed by: Dave Dribin <li>Removed ROMPATH, SPOOLDIR etc defines from makefile.unix and replaced them with XMAMEROOT by Christian Groessler <li>Fully intergrated openstep support, it now no longer needs the files in contrib, see README.unix <li>Added sound synchronisation for streamed sound, this should fix the lag in pacman. This only works when throttle is enabled. <li>Netbsd-i386 audiobuffer querying support by: Tom Spindler </ul> Xmame 0.34rc2.1 updated
42 2 1998-12-27 22:33:09 <em>Category:</em> Role Playing<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> A continuous, ever-changing game world, with day and night, and 3-d terrain.<p> A new "pre-built non-patching binary" has been made available. I don't play Ultima Online, so I'm not too clear about what a "non-patching binary" is, but I suspect it means the client will break next time there's a UO update. The <a href="ftp://leper.owo.com/pub/uo/FAQ">FAQ</a> for this release may answer some questions about this. New Ultima Online client released updated
45 2 1999-01-02 19:56:04 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Short description:</em> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> XMAME, the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement, has been updated to version 0.34.1. Changes from the previous version include: <ul> <li>Everything from dos 0.34 final <li>The mouse is now ungrabbed when the window looses focus. <li>Ggi dirty support, tested with ggi 2.0beta1 </ul> <br> Xmame 0.34.1 updated
49 2 1999-01-19 22:26:01 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><br> <em>Description:</em> A 3rd person, side-view, fast-action, kill-them-before-they-kill-you game.<p> Version 2.0 of this twisted, strangely addicting gem of a platform game has come out of beta. Changes from the last beta release include: <ul> <li>Cleaned up and added graphics for posters, blood, lasers, lances, and the Mutt. <li>Better informational and error messages for Network XEvil. <li>UI tweaks to the menus and options dialog. <li>Fixed bug with the Dragon flashing when sent over the network. <li>UNIX help button, and fixed "xevil -help" for UNIX. <li>More information transmitted with serverping (a utility for monitoring XEvil servers). </ul> Binaries for Linux and Windows are availalbe now. Builds for other unices and the final 2.0 source code should be released later in the week. XEvil 2.0 updated
53 225 1999-01-20 18:43:26 <em>Category:</em> Cards<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> Very nice solitaire card game with 20 solitaire variations.<p> This version supports one new game, namely Canfield, and adds various assist functions like Autoplay, Automatic face up and Hightlight matching cards. Also you can now change the card background, select timer-based real-time card animations and probably enjoy some new bugs ;-) PySol 2.02 updated
55 2 1999-01-22 10:49:46 <img src="/images/thumbs/AZ38.jpg" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Toy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> General Aviation Simulator<p> Changes in 0.57: <UL> <LI> Converted to a simpler frame rate counting method. <LI> Fixed the AOA reading on the HUD. <LI> Removed gpc from the Lib section of distribution by request of the gpc Author. The gpc license is unfortunately not compatible with the GPL. I may look for an alternative library, or just require that developers download this library separately. <LI> First slew of changes from the MacOS porting effort contributed by "Robert Puyol" <puyol@abvent.fr>. <LI> Support for an arbitrary number of serial ports + additional serial port output tweaks. <LI> Serial output tweaks to make things more robust and act more like a GPS. <LI> Portability enhancements for Borland, Solaris, and SGI. <LI> Some internal class renaming and reorganizations. fgFLIGHT becomes FGState. fgCONTROLS becomes FGControls. <LI> Started work on an "external" flight model so the sim can be driven from external input (serial port, network, file, etc.) <LI> Fixed a problem that creeped in with setting the initial startup altitude. This could cause an unrecoverable bounce and you'd end up flipped on your back. Should be fixed now. <LI> Sun now appears to grow in size as it gets very low in the horizon. <LI> Fixed a view frustum culling bug where the scene was not accurately culled when your view was anything other than straight forward. </UL> Flight Gear Flight Sim 0.57 updated
56 2 1999-01-22 11:03:09 <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A Linux port of Raven Software's popular doom-engine game<p> Wow. Two updates to the Linux Heretic port since I last checked.<br> 0.9.1.1: <ul> <li>GGI updates: <ul> <li>Now uses DirectBuffer when available and works properly when it is not. <li>Support for scaling by a factor of 2. (-scale switch) <li>Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32 bpp modes (24 can be achieved with the alemu target) </ul> <li>Proper keyboard handling (the cheats work now ;) <li>Simple FPS meter for GGI and X11 versions. </ul> 0.9.0 -> 0.9.1: <ul> <li>It is now possible to compile and run Heretic for X11 under Linux/x86, Linux/m68k and FreeBSD. (Alpha doesn't work now.) (I can't say anything about Linux/Sparc and other Linux-ports) <li>Added SVGA Version. (code by Nic, see AUTHORS) </ul> Heretic 0.9.1.1 updated
58 2 1999-01-23 21:24:29 <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A Linux port of Boom, which is an enhanced version of Doom from id's source.<p> If you're gonna play Doom under Linux, this is the best way to do it. This update includes a gazillion bug fixes, alpha support for a Glide (3dfx) framebuffer(!), and improved code portablility. lxDoom 1.3.2 updated
59 21 1999-01-25 01:40:55 <em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> A Linux port of Raven Software's popular doom-engine game<p> This update adds sound support via a separate sound server process. Apparently sound does not yet work with newer versions of SVGAlib, though. Heretic 0.9.2 updated