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62 2 1999-01-25 16:40:51 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> 2D scrolling platform game based on Duke Nukem 1 <p> New in version 0.4: <ul> <li>Minor bugfixes <li>Moved sprites around to more or less permanent locations <li>Added "./fullscreen" script to make fullscreen even easier :) <li>Added bananas :) <li>Some font8x8 and menu improvements/structural changes. <li>Created main title screen background image </ul> Dave Gnukem 0.4 updated
71 2 1999-01-30 20:29:09 <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>Description:</em> A fantastic arcade game emulator.<p> A new beta version of this coolest of emulators has been released. It sports two major new features, 16 bit stereo sound and scaling in SVGAlib and DGA modes. There are a number of internal changes as well, the most notable being the configuration save format has changed. Xmame 0.35b2.1 updated
72 250 1999-01-31 13:38:22 <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="*"><img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="*"><p> A multiplayer roguelike game.<p> Crossfire 0.95.2 has been released. There are a lot of bug fixes as well as some pretty big improvements in it. <p> There are too many changes to list here. See the <a href=" ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/crossfire/crossfire-0.95.2-README">README</a> for complete details. CrossFire 0.95.2 updated
73 2 1999-01-31 15:10:38 <em>Category:</em> Puzzle<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> Pingus aims to be a puzzle game similar to Lemmings for Linux.<p> A new release of Pingus is available, with some speed improvements, tile map support, and the ability to read levels from external files. It's still not a playable game, but it's one step closer. <p> God, I can't wait for this to be complete. Lemmings was like crack for me... Pingus 0.0.4 updated
74 2 1999-01-31 18:04:02 <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> 2D scrolling platform game based on Duke Nukem 1<p> Bugfixes, improved menus, credits screen, rudimentary Duke1-style lifts. Dave Gnukem 0.42 updated
75 2 1999-01-31 18:54:26 <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> Changes v1.3.2 to v1.3.3: <ul> <li>Compiles and runs on FreeBSD now <li>Outdated headers corrected <li>Install script made more portable <li>Optimised i386 assembler some more, for about a 2% improvement in framerate. </ul> lxDoom 1.3.3 updated
78 21 1999-02-03 23:46:48 <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> <em>Summary of changes:</em> Saved games are now kept in ~/.heretic/. Better network code. (UDP) Lots of fixes. Heretic 0.9.3 updated
79 2 1999-02-04 12:05:04 <em>Category:</em> Code Library<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> A free, portable 3D engine with a ton of features.<p> There's been a slew of beta releases for this LGPL'ed 3D engine lately as they move toward a new "official" stable release. Almost one new release per day. There's new network code and a network manager, improvements to MazeD, the included level editor, renderer improvements and lots of bugfixes. Yesterday a partially-working 3D tetris game for the CS engine was released. Crystal Space 0.11r052 updated
82 416 1999-02-05 15:00:02 <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="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> A very good Boulderdash type game with high quality graphics and stereo sound.<p> Version 1.3.0 of this excellent arcade/puzzle solving game is out. New stuff in this version: <ul> <li>strongly enhanced level editor <li>new elements and levels for Supaplex style games <li>completely rewritten platform independent gadget code (buttons, scrollbars, text and number input gadgets) <li>nasty sound bug fixed (showed up with Linux kernel 2.2.x) </ul> Rocks 'n' Diamonds 1.3.0 updated
85 468 1999-02-06 13:41:01 <a href="/images/hatman.gif"><img src="/images/thumbs/hatman.gif" align=right width=200 height=150></a><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="*"><p> <em>Description:</em> The game of kings - a nice svgalib pacman game<p> This nice-looking and long-neglected SVGAlib pacman game is continuing development. There are new alpha versions available now, a new 0.5.0 version should become available in the mext few weeks, and a new web site is in the works. Watch this space. Hatman 0.4.6 updated