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Linux-Announce Digest #641
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Fri Nov 5 20:04:17 1999
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 99 19:13:19 EST
Linux-Announce Digest #641, Volume #3 Fri, 5 Nov 99 19:13:19 EST
Contents:
Rocks'n'Diamonds 1.4.0 Boulderdash clone (Holger Schemel)
Laptop-HOWTO 2.1 (Werner Heuser)
Uptimer-1.0.2 - Adds the Linux uptime to your sig file (Sean Rima)
The Linux Kernel Archives get major update (H. Peter Anvin)
signature 0.01 - dynamically produced sigs for e-mail & news (Ian Macdonald)
LOCAL: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Mad Bomber 0.0 - Atari 2600 "Kaboom!" game clone (William Kendrick)
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From: aeglos@valinor.owl.de (Holger Schemel)
Subject: Rocks'n'Diamonds 1.4.0 Boulderdash clone
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:55:24 GMT
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You liked the classic arcade games 'Boulderdash' on your C64, 'Emerald Mine'
on your Amiga or 'Supaplex' on your PC, and miss these games under Linux now?
Then try ...
R O C K S ' N ' D I A M O N D S - V e r s i o n 1 . 4 . 0
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.... which brings them back to you!
"Rocks'n'Diamonds" is a colorful, fast-action, arcade style game for your
Unix-like operation system with color X11 (or DOS/Windows, if you have no
real operation system handy on your computer).
The new version 1.4.0 comes with over 10.000 new levels created by players
and converted from "Emerald Mine Club" disks, "DX-Boulderdash" and "Supaplex",
adds more enhancements to the level editor, brings new elements for building
"Diamond Caves II" levels and contains a lot of new and brushed-up graphics
especially for the "Supalex" levels.
Other features of Rocks'n'Diamonds that are already known from the previous
version are stereo sound, multi player support (over network and locally),
multiple joystick support, completely customizable input devices, smooth
soft scrolling with 50 frames per second and the availability of the complete
source code.
Get it today from: http://www.artsoft.org
Here's the Linux Software Map entry for "Rocks'n'Diamonds" version 1.4.0:
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Title: Rocks'n'Diamonds
Version: 1.4.0
Entered-date: 27Oct99
Description: Arcade style game for color X11 with stereo sounds.
A game like "Boulderdash" (C=64) or "Emerald Mine" (Amiga).
Included are many levels known from the games "Boulderdash",
"Emerald Mine", "Sokoban", "Supaplex" and "DX-Boulderdash"
and a lot of new levels designed by other players.
Some features:
- joystick support for Linux, FreeBSD and DOS/Windows
- network and local multiplayer support
- soft scrolling with 50 frames/s
- stereo sound effects and music
- complete source code included under GNU GPL
Most important changes since last release version 1.3.0:
- more level editor enhancements
- enhanced high score list
- new elements and levels for "Diamond Caves II" style games
- brushed-up elements for "Supaplex" style games
- lots of new levels converted from Emerald Mine Club disks
(over 10.000 levels), DX-Boulderdash and Supaplex
- game data files separated into read-only and writable files
- new setup options for level handicap and unlimited time
- see file "CHANGES" for more changes
Keywords: game x11 boulderdash emeraldmine sokoban color stereo sound
Author: Holger Schemel (info@artsoft.org)
Maintained-by: Holger Schemel (info@artsoft.org)
Primary-site: www.artsoft.org
1432092 rocksndiamonds-1.4.0.tar.gz (Unix)
2663560 rocks140.zip (DOS/Windows)
Platforms: Should run on any Unix/X11 system and DOS/Windows.
Expected/known to work on Linux, HP-UX, SUN, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
AIX, IRIX, DOS, Windows95/98 (compiles in Linux DOSEMU).
Linux ELF/glibc binary included.
Copying-policy: GNU General Public License
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Holger Schemel
aeglos@valinor.owl.de
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From: Werner Heuser <wehe@snafu.de>
Subject: Laptop-HOWTO 2.1
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:51:11 GMT
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Hi,
with help from many contributors, I can now announce
version 2.1 of the Linux-Laptop-HOWTO.
The HOWTO is available in different formats at LiLAC
http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
and at the LINUX DOCUMENTATION PROJECT - LDP soon.
changes:
Added information about email with UUCP,
the use of CVS and other tools to synchronize two machines,
the noatime mount option, GPS systems, presentation tools,
and hard disk form factors. Started chapter about the Hurd.
Changed URL of PCMCIA-CS package and LDP. Reworked credits
and APM chapter.
Cheers
- -werner-
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LiLAC - Linux with Laptop Computers | /~~~
Berlin, Germany | /~~~~
T. +49 30 349 53 86 <wehe@snafu.de> www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
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From: Sean Rima <thecivvie@softhome.net>
Subject: Uptimer-1.0.2 - Adds the Linux uptime to your sig file
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 22:04:07 GMT
Reply-To: Sean Rima <thecivvie@softhome.net>
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I am pleased to announce the release of Uptimer 1.0.2.
uptimer adds your current uptime to your .sig file or alternatively another
sig file which can be specified on the command line. The default .sig file
must be in your HOME directory. The uptimer program will run on a console
to show you a sample of what your sig file will look like. It does not
write or amend your .sig file but writes to stdout. uptimer can be used
with most Email and News programs although it has only tested it with TIN
and MUTT.
Changes:
Several bug fixes including removing some debugging code. Uptimer now
searches for the following 4 sig files and will use the first found:
..sig .signature sig signature
Uptimer is Freeware and precompiled on a 486 using 2.2.12 but should operate
on most versions of Linux.
Sean
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....Linux Uptime: 4 Days, 17 Hours and 41 Minutes
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From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: The Linux Kernel Archives get major update
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:56:22 GMT
Reply-To: hpa@kernel.org (H. Peter Anvin)
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The Linux Kernel Archives, kernel.org, has gotten a major update.
After suffering with insufficient bandwidth for far too long, we are
now operating with a dedicated 100 Mbit/s connection from Globix. VA
Linux gave us a really nice new box to run it on, too; so it is really
a wonderful setup we have gotten.
Not only should this resolve the bandwidth shortage, but hopefully
we'll be adding new services soon. We have already added anonymous
rsync services for the benefit of unofficial mirror sites.
I'd appreciate hearing requests for new services on kernel.org, just
email me at hpa@kernel.org...
H. Peter Anvin
Site Manager, kernel.org
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From: ian@caliban.org (Ian Macdonald)
Subject: signature 0.01 - dynamically produced sigs for e-mail & news
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:51:59 GMT
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Announcing the first release of signature, 0.01.
signature is a free, open-source producer of dynamic signatures for
livening up your e-mail and news postings. It will allow you to sign
your messages with a different sig every time.
The idea for the program came from an old Perl script in the Camel
Book that demonstrated the use of named pipes.
This C implementation was written as an exercise in programming. I'm a
UNIX sysadmin, not a professional programmer, although back in the
dark ages I used to program quite a lot for pleasure in BASIC (back
when they still used line numbers), Pascal, Modula-2 and Z80
assembler.
In recent years, I've more or less used Perl exclusively, and - since
Perl is such a flexible language - I just never got started on C. I
decided to change all that recently, so I've been doing plenty of
reading and signature is pretty much the first fruit to come of that.
The software can be obtained from:
http://www.caliban.org/files/signature-0.01.tar.gz
RPM format packages can be obtained from:
http://www.caliban.org/files/RPMS/signature-0.01.i386.rpm
http://www.caliban.org/files/RPMS/signature-0.01.src.rpm
The source code is available under the GPL 2.0 licence.
Ian
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From: paulf@quillandmouse.com
Subject: LOCAL: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:57:11 GMT
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***** Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *****
*********************************************
MEETING NOTICE
==============
Wednesday 10 November 1999, 19:00 to 21:00 local, starts promptly
(second Wednesday of each month)
MEETING SITE:
=============
Thomas Jefferson High School
Science Lab D03
4401 W Cypress
Tampa
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
MEETING PRESENTATION
====================
Speaker:
Erik Henriksen
RedCreek Communications, Inc.
There will also be a raffle and lots of free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
FOLLOWING MEETING
=================
Saturday, 8 December, 7:00 to 9:00 in Tampa
(No further Dunedin meetings this year, due to holidays.)
===================================================================
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From: nbs@sonic.net (William Kendrick)
Subject: Mad Bomber 0.0 - Atari 2600 "Kaboom!" game clone
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:53:19 GMT
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Mad Bomber 0.0 has been released for Linux.
"Mad Bomber" is a clone of Activision's 1981 Atari 2600 classic, "Kaboom!,"
written in C, using Simple DirectMedia Layer libraries for graphics and
sound (so it can be ported to Windows, BeOS, etc.).
The object is to move buckets left and right to catch bombs which are being
dropped from the top of the screen. If a bomb hits the ground, you lose
a bucket and go back one level.
Mad Bomber can be played with either keyboard or mouse, by one or two
players, or in a two player "versus" mode (where player two controls the
bombs). A "zen" mode is also available to turn off the photorealistic
background graphics and use original-Kaboom!-style graphics.
Mad Bomber 0.0 is available as a 2326Kbytes (2.28Mbytes) source tar-ball.
ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/nbs/unix/x/madbomber/
There is a web page with more information, links to the SDL library, and
screenshots:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/madbomber/
Enjoy! If you like Mad Bomber, please take a moment to share your thoughts
at The Linux Game Tome!
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Mad%20Bomber
If you have problems with Mad Bomber, visit New Breed Software's "Bug Track":
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bugtrack/
- -bill!
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
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