Linux Games Digest

Loemu is a free application that provides a simple front end for various game emulators. Features: Game emulation with xmame, sdlmame, snes9x and zsnes is supported. Game browsing using dynamic list. This allows tracking in a parcial list generated with several categories. Fast game finding. Specific filtering tool speeds up the search. Game lists by played and favorite games. Localization support. Developed in PyGTK + Glade basis. Released under GNU General Public License." Loemu 0.3.0 has been released and can be downloaded from here

CHARGE is a 3D first-person perspective variant on Pong with powerups. Download: [ charge-game.webs.com ]

Okay, time for a new development release. This release does fix the bugs in the development branch that were already fixed in the stable branch with 1.2.8. Beside this some other things were fixed, for example should Windows users now again be able to use the multiplayer and the add-on server (at least once the Windows binary is out). There are more new and changed things but if you want some more info about what changed, have a look at this forum thread. As with the last development releases, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is likely to cause a serious headache... At the moment only the OpenSolaris binaries are ready, but once the others are done you can find them at the download page. Please keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite a few bugs. If you find one, please report it. Update: The MacOSX binaries are now available at the download page. Update 2: The Windows binaries are now available at the download page. Soon the server will be updated to only support 1.3.12.

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM. Do you hear it? Do you smell a new version? It's now here. And as usual and regularly, it is packed with tons of new features. Hold on, and take a look at the list:

• Support for the FREEWARE adventure Lure of the Temptress (available for download here)

• Seven other new supported games: I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream, Elvira 1 and 2, Waxworks (Amiga version only) and 3 Sierra pre-AGI games for children

• Two newly available ports: iPhone and Maemo

• Support for the Mac version of The Legend of Kyrandia and the Amiga version of Nippon Safes

• Better support for Sierra AGI games

• Improved support for modern 64-bit systems

• Support for FLAC encoded music in Broken Sword 1 for the purists among you

• Better support for non-English versions of games, including eastern languages

• Sound compression for SAGA games

• Much much more."

Download ScummVM 0.11.0 from here

 

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Version 0.7.3 of FreeCol, a free/open-source Colonization clone, has been released. The objective of the game is to colonize the New World. You start the game in 1492 with a vessel and some colonists. The goal is to build many colonies (with the help of Europe) so that you can live off the land after a while. Once the majority of the people are behind you, you can declare your independence. The King will then send over his forces from Europe and try to gain control over your colonies. If you survive the attack you've won the game. Changes:

• New maps.
• Tutorial messages.
• Several bugfixes and some more features.

The secret ingredient is… LOVE?!? The Legendary Orthogonal Virtual Environment is an open source 2D game engine which utilizes Lua; there’s an online reference manual and a tutorial, but currently LOVE only supports things such as audio, fonts, imaging, input, and timing. Download: [ love.sourceforge.net ]

ezQuake is a QuakeWorld (Quake 1) client focused on enhanced graphics and extremely fast gameplay; the full feature list can be found here. The changelog for version 1.8.3 is: Fixes model checking Security module is now not necessary to perform f_modified check (security module for this version might not ever be available)

A new build of the Sega Saturn emulator Yabause was announced with bug fixes and user interface enhancements. Screenshots: [ View ] Download: [ yabause.org ]

There’s a brief preview of Introversion’s next game, Multiwinia, at Rock, Paper, Shotgun: One of the immediate reactions to Darwinia was that it might make an entertaining multiplayer game. Introversion, stretched for time and resources, had expressed their intention to create a multiplayer aspect, but needed to get the game finished.

There’s a new stable release for the Linux kernel available; Linux Kernel Newbies has the rundown: 2.6.24 includes CPU “group scheduling”, memory fragmentation avoidance, tickless support for x86-64/ppc and other architectures, many new wireless drivers and a new wireless configuration interface, SPI/SDIO MMC support, USB authorization, per-device dirty memory thresholds, support for PID and network namespaces,