| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 43 | 2 | 1998-12-27 23:34:20 | <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/thumbs/gn027.jpg" width=200 height=135 align="right"> <em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> Great Nations is a shareware game for the Linux (glibc2), Windows and Amiga platforms. It is still under development and only a free playable demo is available thus far. It looks pretty promising. Too bad it's shareware and not GPL software. This is a network-only game. The developers say it's unclear if they'll add computer AI to the game sometime in the future. The GN website has some nice looking "3d" isometric view screenshots from an upcoming version of the game. | Great Nations 1.3.1 | new | |
| 44 | 2 | 1998-12-29 15:57:19 | My esteemed host may take the server down for maintenance briefly tomorrow. He can't say exactly when this might occur, so if you can't get to the Tome, this will be the likely cause. The expected downtime is only about an hour, so most people probably won't even notice. | The Game Tome may be unavailable Wednesday | default | |
| 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 | |
| 46 | 2 | 1999-01-03 19:04:23 | Since I had a bit free time this weekend and I needed an excuse not to do something useful (like implement a decent search interface for the Game Tome), I added those little dynamic news boxes you see on the right side of the page. Via these nifty constructs, you can keep tabs on all the latest Linux games news on the net without inflaming your carpal tunnels. Even niftier is the fact that you can control which boxes are displayed, and in what order. This functionality is available through the [Edit User Profile] link that you'll see at the top of the page if you're logged in. Email me if there's a Linux game related site that you'd like to be represented in the news boxes. | Changes round these here parts | default | |
| 47 | 392 | 1999-01-09 15:53:44 | <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/thumbs/tud_shot.jpg" width=200 height=145 align=right><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> TUD is a action-strategy networked game. You are the commander of your units and steer them on the map. You can build new vehicles and objects and give them to other units. In the moment it is only a multiplayer game (No AI opponents yet.) The game lives from the interaction of the players (Make deals, work together, exchange objects, ...) | TUD (The Urgent Decision) 0.8.0 | new | |
| 48 | 2 | 1999-01-15 11:32:01 | Raven press release: <p> <blockquote> Monday, January 11th, 1999: Raven Software and Activision have announced the source code release for Raven's blockbuster classics Heretic and Hexen. <p> "As a result of the enormous popularity of the DOOM source code, we are extremely excited to see what the gaming public can do with the Heretic and Hexen code," says Brian Raffel, vice president of Raven Studios. "It is our hope that people will create such modifications as GL Heretic and GL Hexen and support higher resolutions, greater multiplayer capabilities, mods, and ports to new operating systems like BeOS and Linux. The possibilities are as endless as the community's imagination." <p> The file is approximately 1 meg in size and comes complete with installer, legal information and readme files. Download it today and let your imaginations run wild! </blockquote> Note that bit about file coming "complete with installer". It means you can't get at the code without extracting it on a Windows system first. When will they learn? <p> <b>Update:</b> There's now a zip package available in addition the Windows installer. Guess they've learned. :-) Thanks to R. Pickett for this update. <p> The Heretic/Hexen source is available <a href="http://www2.ravensoft.com/source/">here</a> | Raven Software releases Heretic/Hexen source | default | |
| 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 | |
| 50 | 2 | 1999-01-20 00:03:24 | <img src="http://www.happypenguin.org/images/thumbs/xtraceroute.jpg" align=right width=150 height=200><em>Category:</em> Toy<br> <em>Description:</em> Xtraceroute is a graphical traceroute utility that shows the path your IP packets travel on a 3 dimensional rendered globe.<p> Ok, so this isn't a game, and it doesn't really qualify as a toy either. Get your own site if you don't like it. Something about this program just gets my inner geek really excited. 3D rendered traceroute, man. Dig it! | xtraceroute 0.8.12 | new | |
| 51 | 2 | 1999-01-20 00:38:16 | <em>Category:</em> Action<br> Just days after the source code was released, we've already got a working port of Heretic. <p> Heretic is a first person shooter with a fantasy theme, based on the Doom engine. This port runs with either X or the GGI library. As of this writing, sound and network support are broken. | Heretic 0.9.0 | new |