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Version 0.1.1 of the NES emulator FakeNES (screenshots: 1 | 2) has been released; changes include:

• four-screen mirroring support added
• PPU rendering changes
• tile cache memory leak fixed
• memory mapper support changes
• Sunsoft mapper 4 (iNES mapper 68) support added
• MMC3 SRAM disable bit ignored (to fix Star Tropics)

FakeNES 0.1.1 source: fakenes-0.1.1.tar.bz2

Version 0.9 of the OpenGL billards game FooBillard, has been released. Changes and or fixes in this release include:

• freetype fonts for balls and player text ( fonts lent from http://www.pizzadude.dk )
• balls autotextured (colors+text)
• smooth movement (fine adjust per Ctrl obsolete)
• red-green(cyan) stereo !!!!
• symbolic icons for half/full/any
• default ball detail set to high
• bugfix: place cue ball not possible while balls moving
• for help screen

Download: foobillard-0.9a.tar.gz

Version 1.09 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released. Changes and fixes include:

• New magic items making it easier to enter underwater provinces
• New magic site in which Shamblers may be recruited
• More magic item restriction, e.g. Father Illearth cannot wear boots
• Some blood magic spells increases more in power with higher levels
• new independent underwater province
• Full version history here

Dominions 1.09 demo downloads:http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Bernd Ritter from Holarse sent in word with an email about Team Factor. This comes from 7fx directly.

TF for linux is not available at this time. First we have to finish itsWindows version, ship it and then, if it’s gonna be financially viable, wecan do a linux version. It’s not that hard to do because we have a dedicatedserver running on linux which basically is the whole engine without graphicsand keyboard/mouse input. And as we have support for OpenGL in TF, addingthese features could take us about a week.

Version 0.4.1 of the Pygame-based Dance Dance Revolution clone pyDDR has been released. Changes and fixes for this release include:

• fixed stupid bug where all of 100+x combo texts was not erased
• now draws X on both arrows when you miss a double
• Lifebar improvements
  • more fairness in judgement
  • tells you when you’ve failed (but doesn’t kill song)
• MSD2STEP fixes
  • tries to write more accurate start times
  • fixed offsets to something that seems to be more common

Download: pyddr-0.4.1.tar.gz

The Neverwinter Nights news site has updated with miscellaneous news related to the upcoming AD&D-based RPG:

• Two new official screenshots have been posted
• Game Review Online posted an interview with Greg Zeschuk, Joint-CEO and co-Executive Producer from Bioware
• PC Game Central posted another interview with Greg Zeschuk
• Neverwinter Stratics posted a chat log of the fourth Neverwinter Nights Stratics House of Commons chat with BioWare
• Bioware announced that they will be working with composer Jeremy Soule for NWN

Heavy Cat Multimedia sent in the following announcement concerning their new multi-platform game LadyStar:

Our newest episode, “Oh, She’s Just a Pest” is now available for download. This is our largest and most ambitious episode yet! Featuring over 50 unique locations, at least one moderately difficult puzzle, and well over 7MB of color character and 3D background graphics, “Oh, She’s Just a Pest” also introduces two new characters: Cecilia Daichi and her sleepy cat Hikousen, plus a special animated sneak preview of the registered version of LadyStar!

Versions are available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

….and if you haven’t played them yet, you’ve got two ways to play the first two episodes now: “The New Girl” and “Little Pictures Everywhere” areavailable for download *and* if you’ve got a high-speed connection, you can even play them *on-line* using your web browser!

All three episodes include the new and updated features of the Tranquility GTML Game Engine:

* The long-awaited (and now hopefully debugged) inventory system
* Animated Toolbar
* Point-scoring system
* All New Main Menu
* Integrated Help System
* Go Links and Info Links
* Hidden Features

We’ve opened a new server to make downloads and page load times better for our guests, and so we could re-release our two and a half minute digital video trailer for LadyStar: “I Can See The Future,” available now in Alanna’s Multimedia Area:

http://www.ladystar.net/game/ladystarmultimedia.html

The trailer is a 35MB download, and is subject to limited availability if we exceed a certain bandwidth level, but will always be made available again at the beginning of each month.

BFGalbraith wrote in to announce that version 2002.03.08 of the action RPG Hack and Slash (screenshots: 1 | 2 | 3) has been released. Hack and Slash relies on Open Quartz, a Quake source modification.

Hack and Slash 2002.03.08 source: hands-2002.03.08.zip

Dave wrote in to announce that version 2.42 of the Infocom/Z-machine game interpreter Unix Frotz (screenshots) has been released; changes include: updated Makefile and bug fixes.

Unix Frotz 2.42 source: frotz-2.42.tar.gz

Version 5.4.5 of the multiplayer amorphous blob combat game Liquid War (screenshots) has been released; changes since version 5.4.3 include:

• MIDI music support
• bugfixes in the binary RPM
• fixed keyboard bug
• updated configure script

Liquid War 5.4.5 downloads: @ www.ufoot.org

A Quake2 server rcon password vulnerability was discovered recently. A possible, but untested, patch is mentioned towards the end of the thread.

Mark Collins sent in word about his OpenGL articles:

Several parts of the OpenGL programming series printed in UK magazine “Linux Format” are now online at http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk/articles.html.

Part 1 of his article didn’t make it online because of a hard drive crash. So only parts 2, 3, and 4 are online.

Ralph Schmeisser from gamesforlinux.de wrote in to announce that he has some new reviews online (German):

• Epiar: http://www.gamesforlinux.de/Spiele/epiar.htm
• Emila Pinball: http://www.gamesforlinux.de/Spiele/epinball.htm
• Barrel Patrol: http://www.gamesforlinux.de/Spiele/barrelpatrol.htm
• Possible Worlds: http://www.gamesforlinux.de/Spiele/possibleworlds.htm
• BillardGL: http://www.gamesforlinux.de/Spiele/billardgl.htm

Daniel Heck wrote in with some word on his new project:

I spent the last few months developing an Oxyd clone for Linux. Although a lot is still missing, Enigma is quite playable by now. I just finished up the first public release. Version 0.37 is available from Enigma’s homepage at

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/enigma/

Everyone who interested is invited to take a look at this release or even subscribe to the developers’ mailing list. I’m grateful for any kind of help I can get.

Download: enigma-0.37.tar.gz

Miguel Angel Blanch wrote in to announce a new Tech Preview of Arianne. This is mainly a bug fix over Tech Preview 1. There is still no client for it, but download it and try to compile and run it. Changes and or fixes for this release include:

• Added Last Login information
• Corrected a ton of bugs, mainly:
  • Incorrect clients management
  • Actions wasn’t correctly managed on RP
  • Secure Login works perfectly now
  • Better error diagnose
• Added Server Command Line help
• Added option to disable Server Prompt
• tar.gz file is now Linux compatible line ended.
• Tons of smaller updates

Also Miguel sent along this side note:

I also want to invite you all to test our new i18n site, if you want Arianne in a language that is not already done, contact us and help us to translate it.

Download: http://www.arianne.cx/

Version 0.5 of nvclock was released changes and or fixes in this release include:

• new calculation code
• more working speeds
• lots of cleanups
• overclocking by non-root users when using the closed source NVIDIA drivers
• fixed “fake ddr” bug for GeForce2MX/GeForce4MX using sdr memory
• 27MHz crystal frequency support which is needed for GeForce4 based cards
• support for GeForce4 Ti/MX and Quadro4 XGL/NVS [as yet untested]
• disabled some cards [nForce, Xbox GPU, Mobile GPU's]

Download: http://www.evil3d.net/products/nvclock

Brandon “killme” James of Nerve Software (the developers of themultiplayer portion of RTCW) updated his.plan about the recent 1.3patch, requesting thatplayers test a server-side fix for a player teleportation issue at these servers:

192.246.40.64:27960 – Xians MP_BEACH server
192.246.40.45:27960 – Xians MP_DESTRUCTION server
192.246.40.43:27960 – Xians MP_ICE server
192.246.40.45:27961 – Xians MP_BASE server
192.246.40.66:27961 – Fred’s MP_BASE server
192.246.40.108:27960 – Xians MP_TRENCHTOAST server

Brandon notes, as Xian has noted in his.plan before, that player stats on these servers can be foundhere.

Speaking of emulators, version 0.58.3 of xmame, the Linux mult-machine arcade emulator, has been released.The list of changes can be found here.

xmame 0.58.3 Download:
[ Patch | Full Source ]

ePSXe, the Linux PSX (PlayStation One) emulator, is now at version1.5.1. Changes:

• CD subchannel support
• Pov hat joystick support
• CD controller modifications
• 3D math fix for some games
• Internal timing changes
• MDEC transparency
• Various fix the main CPU emulation

ePSXe 1.5.1 Download:
http://download.epsxe.com/files/epsxe151lin.zip

Version 0.5 of Attal: Lords of Doom, a turn-based strategy game project,has been released. This version can support two players on the same map, and also includes improved human graphics.

Attal 0.5 Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/attal/attal-0.5.tgz