LINUXGAMES

John Bleichert wrote in to point out a new game that he found while poking around, called Zenrai. Zenrai is a 3D MMORPG that is set in an ancient oriental setting. The game itself is not ready for beta testing, but is scheduled to be in mid to late 2003 (a form will be up to sign up for the test when it gets closer). You can read more about the game on its homepage.

This is a bit older news, but still good. Benny Kramek has made a game that is for linux called Carterrain (Screenshots). Carterrain is a 3D multi-player splitscreen, offroad racing game, which you can have up to 6 players playing on it.

Download: carterrain-1.0.tar.gz

Some more news from Holarse about Team Factor, this is a msg from 7FX:

thanks for the info. Looks like I created a new flame war on that forum. Yes I remember your first mail.* I think we’re a company and we should take care of porting our products by ourselves or through regular business contracts. Anyway, there’s no technical problem in getting TF run under linux. It’s just a matter of time. I can do it by myself and I’ll do it. If TF sells well or totally fails, either way, I’ll have plenty of time.

0.14 of the space adventure/combat game in development Epiar has been released. Changes and or fixes in this release include:

• Fixed menu input timing errors
• Smarter memory management
• Added menu option for instructions (you know, so you know how to play)
• More Physics
• Improved hud (shield and laser recharge bars)
• Added shield status to all sprites on screen
• Much better collision detection
• Big graphical improvement (with even more coming!)
• Misc. bug fixes

Download: epiar-0.14.tar.gz

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Have a great day!

Larry Brackney forwarded the Return To Castle Wolfenstein v1.31 patch ChangeLog:

1. Fixes added in 1.31

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Teleportation and Reviving Players Bugs Fixed

Bugs introduced in 1.30 related to reviving players and teleportation, or warping,on certain maps have been fixed. These issues were a byproduct of a fix forreviving players on and around script movers (the giant doors in mp_assault for example).

The patch is available from http://www.rtcwfiles.com.

God (yes, really) wrote in to let us know that he has successfully run Jedi Knight II: Outcast using Wine from Transgaming CVS.

[It] ran very smooth and fast in linux using Wine.I ran it for half an hour in 1280×1024@32bit fullscreen (had to changemy desktop depth to 16 bit for that) and it ran very fine (between 20-40fps).

God was using NVIDIA drivers version 2802 and Wine version 20011226 from CVS.

Dan Olson, you may now post the requisite “Wine is bad” comment.

Luis Montes wrote in to note that he has released an installer for Rune Co-op v1.2 for Linux. It can be downloaded here. The installer requires a full version of Loki’s Rune for Linux.

Version 0.59.1 of the multi-machine arcade emulator Xmame has been released; changes include:

• everything from MAME 0.59
• set some more sensible defaults for the various path settings in fileio.c
• fixed a segfault in psikyosh games

Xmame 0.59.1 source: xmame-0.59.1.tar.bz2

Version 3.9.6c of Open Sound System, the commercial implementation of the OSS/Free sound drivers included in the Linux kernel, has been released; changes include:

• support for Tru64 UNIX v5.1
• rear channel
• support for Compaq Presario 7xx laptops with VIA 82C686 audio fixed
• support for Turtle Beach Santa Cruz/Video Logic Sonic Fury (CS4630)
• new Virtual Mixer features
• new SBLive! drivers (mixer screenshot)

OSS 3.9.6c downloads: http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

Version 0.4.6 of the 3D chess program glChess (screenshot) has been released; changes since version 0.4.4 include:

• applied Makefile simplification patches
• now sleeps when not doing anything — doesn’t waste CPU
• fix calls with execvp() when argv == NULL

glChess 0.4.6 source: glchess-0.4.6.tar.gz

Version 0.1 of the Bandai Wonderswan (Colour) emulator Cygne/SDL has been released. Cygne/SDL is an SDL port of the Cygne 2.1a emulator and the source is released under the LGPL.

Cygne/SDL 0.1 source: Cygne-SDL-0.1-src.tar.gz

Version 0.2.6 r2 of the Gameboy Advance emulator BoyCott Advance/SDL has been released; changes include:

• Restructured config file and commandline switches [SDLemu Generic];
• - Commandline switches overrule configfile [SDLemu Generic];
• fixed quit-crash when using OpenGL/YUV
• Overlay and Sound
• redid YUV Overlay rendering
• fixed and optimised GL_QUAD rendering
• added OpenGL blurring and Alpha Blending effect (selectable!) to OpenGL renderer
• added TV-Mode and Dot-Matrix interlaced filters to OpenGL renderer using SDL_OPENGLBLIT hack
• added Motion Blur filter to SDL software-renderer
• added CTRL, ALT, SPACE, ETC keys for movement use
• bugfixes, tweaks and cleanups

BoyCott Advance/SDL 0.2.6 r2 downloads: http://sdlemu.ngemu.com/basdl.php

Version 1.10.1 of the multiplayer turn-based strategy game Advanced Strategic Command (screenshots: 1 | 2) has been released; changes include:

• the number of mines is now displayed in the field information window
• fixed: canceling Reactionfire enabled units that can not attack after
• moving to move immediately
• fixed: View unit movement revealed the reaction fire status of enemy units
• new function “resource comparison” in map editor
• fixed display error when entering passwords
• fixed wrong text position in mouse options
• fixed crash in replay

ASC 1.10.1 downloads: http://www.asc-hq.org/download.html

Alexander Pipelka wrote in to announce that he is looking to hand over his postition of SDL widget library ParaGUI maintainer to somebody else. Of course, potential maintainers should be familiar with the project and the code behind it. If you are interested, drop Alex an email at pipelka@teleweb.at.

This is a little old, but it’s something that should still be posted. Numerous LG readers wrote in to point out that NaN, creator of the 3D app Blender (Creator and Publisher), have announced that they will be “re-organizing” the company. During this reorganization period, the Website may be only partially functional, online orders won’t be taken, and no downloads of Blender will be available. Slashdot also ran a story about this.

Version 3.4.0 of the classic single player dungeon exploration game Nethack (screenshot) has been released; changes include:

• bug fixes and tweaks to the core code
• enhanced config file processing and player selection prompts for some ports
• refinements to race/role separation

Nethack 3.4.0 downloads: @ www.nethack.org

Tobias J. Nopper wrote in to announce that version 1.60 of the OpenGL billiard simulator BillardGL (screenshot) has been released. BillardGL is released under the GPL.

BillardGL 1.60 downloads: @ www.tobias-nopper.de

Version 1.0.1 of the educational game GCompris (screenshots) has been released; changes since version 1.0.0Pre4 include:

• new board to teach space orientation
• new board to teach colors
• the Slovak translation has been created
• better mouse pointer
• the draw board now includes a grid that makes it possible to introduce new activities like ‘reproduce this’
• now works well in other locales, e.g. Lithuanian

GCompris 1.0.1 downloads: @ sf.net

Version 4.0.1 of the game programming library Allegro has been released; changes include:

• VGA, SVGAlib, X11 and ALSA driver fixes
• minor changes and clarifications in the docs
• usprintf() now supports long long integers

Allegro 4.0.1 downloads: @ sf.net