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Linux-Announce Digest #20
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Linux-Announce Digest #20, Volume #4 Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Heroes 0.13: A game like Nibbles, just better. (Alexandre Duret-Lutz)
Press Release: The Book of Zope, Nov. 01 (No Starch Press)
XLR Doc Builder 1.0.4-beta Now Available ("Robert Della Malva")
Announce: Major Enhancements added to LinkScan 8.2 (Ken Churilla)
Bas 0.9 - BASIC interpreter (michael@moria.de)
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:46:22 CST
Subject: Heroes 0.13: A game like Nibbles, just better.
From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>
I am pleased to announce the release of Heroes 0.13
Heroes is similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but
includes many graphical improvements and new game features.
In it, you must maneuver a small vehicle around a world and collect
powerups while avoiding obstacles, your opponents' trails, and even
your own trail.
There are five game modes available. Quest is the classical
Nibbles, in Death Match you start with very long tails a must kill your
opponents, in Kill'em All you must run over lemmings moving on the
ground, in Time Cash or Color modes you must collect money or pyramids
of color. Heroes features 12 original sound tracks, 94 levels (in 10
different tile sets) plus a level editor.
You are invited to visit the following links:
home page: http://heroes.sourceforge.net/
screenshots: http://heroes.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
download: http://heroes.sourceforge.net/download.html
This version adds
- a new bonus: the fire trail
- a new utility, heroeslvl, to inspect level files.
Read NEWS for the other changes.
HELP! Heroes development is open to anyone and we welcome any
contribution. In the hypothetical case you would like to spend some
time on the source code and don't know what to do, please, ask the
mailing list: there is presently some (non-boring) tasks that needs to
be done and for which understanding the full source tree is not a
prerequisite.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:46:22 CST
From: No Starch Press<amanda@nostarch.com>
Subject: Press Release: The Book of Zope, Nov. 01
Reply-To: amanda@nostarch.com
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For Immediate Release
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BUILD POWERFUL WEB APPLICATIONS WITH ZOPE: New book is first to tackle this Open Source Web Application server on an introductory level
San Francisco, CA-Computer book publisher No Starch Press, Inc. and Zope documentation developer Beehive today announced the launch of THE BOOK OF ZOPE: HOW TO BUILD AND DELIVER WEB APPLICATIONS (November 2001, 1-886411-57-3, $39.95, 520 pp., www.nostarch.com/?zope). Zope, the leading Open Source Web Application server and content management system, helps teams of developers create and manage dynamic, Web-based business applications like Intranets and portals.
Written by the experts at Beehive, THE BOOK OF ZOPE is a comprehensive introduction to this powerful product, providing developers and content managers with in-depth coverage of everything from DTML, ZClasses, ZCatalog, and debugging to programming Zope with Python. Readers learn how to:
* Install Zope on their system or server
* Use the management screen to develop their site and manage its content
* Master creating dynamic content with DTML
* Manage users, roles and permissions both through the Web and programmatically to secure a site and provide personalized content
* Create custom content with ZClasses
* Integrate and publish data from relational databases
* Use ZCatalog to index and search site content
* Script and extend Web applications using the Python programming language
* Extend Zope through Python products
Zope runs on Windows and almost all Unix-based platforms, and includes its own Web server, transactional object-oriented database, search engine, Web page templating system, Web development and management tool, and comprehensive extension support. Available from bookstores or from No Starch Press (1-800-420-7240, www.nostarch.com), THE BOOK OF ZOPE is an essential reference for building and managing dynamic Web applications with Zope.
ABOUT BEEHIVE
Berlin, Germany, and Washington D.C.-based Beehive (www.beehive.de) develops and supports many Zope-based applications for leading European and North American companies, startups, and governmental organizations.
ABOUT LINUX JOURNAL PRESS
Linux Journal Press publishes books on cutting-edge Open Source topics that help to advance the acceptance and usability of Open Source software. An imprint of No Starch Press (www.nostarch.com), Linux Journal Press titles are developed in partnership with Linux Journal (www.ssc.com and www.linuxjournal.com).
MEDIA CONTACTS
*Amanda Staab, No Starch Press, 415-863-9900, amanda@nostarch.com
*Chris Abraham, Beehive, North American office, 202-548-0410, cja@beehive.de
*Mark Pratt, Beehive, +011 [49] 30-84-78-20, mark@beehive.de
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:46:36 CST
From: "Robert Della Malva" <robert@xlreader.com>
Subject: XLR Doc Builder 1.0.4-beta Now Available
Hello,
XL-Reader Project, provider of online publication and documentation
solutions, have just released an update to XLR Doc Builder. Version
1.0.4-beta may be downloaded for free from:
. XLR Doc Builder for Linux - Java VM 1.3.1 included - 28.8 MB:
http://www.xlreader.com/download/xlg104b/instdata/Unix/Linux/ixlg104b.bin
(requires 128+ MB RAM, 200+ MHz CPU)
. XLR Doc Builder for Linux - Without Java VM - 6.3 MB :
http://www.xlreader.com/download/xlg104b/instdata/Unix/Others/ixlg104b.bin
(requires 128+ MB RAM, 200+ MHz CPU, Java VM 1.3 installed)
For more information regarding this release, please refer to Products file
found at
http://www.xlreader.com/products.html
Cordially,
James Fox and Robert Della Malva
XL-Reader Project Managers
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XL-Reader Project
mailto:Contact@XLReader.com
www.xlreader.com
The provider of online publication and documentation solutions
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:46:36 CST
From: Ken Churilla <ken@elsop.com>
Subject: Announce: Major Enhancements added to LinkScan 8.2
Reply-To: ken@elsop.com
Press Release - Major Enhancements added to LinkScan™ 8.2
San Jose, CA, September 18, 2001. Electronic Software Publishing
Corp. (Elsop) is pleased to announce the release of LinkScan™ 8.2.
The LinkScan™ family of products deliver industrial-strength test
automation and website management capabilities. In addition to
extremely high accuracy, LinkScan offers exceptional performance and
scalability for extremely large websites and Intranet applications.
Advanced customization features allow webmasters and quality assurance
engineers to create completely automated test suites.
LinkScan 8.2 incorporates a host of new features developed in
partnership with existing clients at government agencies, universities
and Fortune 1000 companies. The scale and complexity of modern
website applications combined with the extremely rapid rate
of change creates many management challenges. These include
design, quality, testing, performance, change control and work flow
management. LinkScan 8.2 addresses many of these needs and is available
for immediate deployment.
"The cost of testing and re-testing today's web-based applications
represents a tremendous burden." said Malcolm Hoar, Chief Technology
Officer of Elsop. "Manual methods are intolerably expensive and
cannot possibly handle the rates of change demanded in today's
markets. LinkScan allows customers to accelerate the process and
to do so at dramatically reduced cost." he added.
LinkScan was, from the outset, designed as an open and
extensible system. Customers need not discard and write off their
existing investments in content management and other tools. LinkScan
fits right in and may be integrated with those systems to save time
and money as well as maintain website quality to highly enhance the
user experience. Existing customers are today using LinkScan with
other leading systems such as those from Microsoft, Vignette,
Broadvision, Sun Microsystems and IBM.
The new 8.2 release builds upon that foundation with new
features to facilitate work group communication, inter-application
integration as well as improved productivity in design, testing,
configuration management and on-going maintenance. Other
enhancements have been made to improve performance, accuracy,
ease of use, and customization. New reporting options make it
possible to answer many more ad hoc questions and drill-down
into specific test results.
Version 8.2 is a free upgrade to all users of 7.0 or higher.
Existing users and others interested in the technical details of
the new features are invited to visit:
http://www.elsop.com/linkscan/history.html
The LinkScan family of products addresses the complete spectrum
of needs at affordable prices ranging from $300 to $5,000.
Cross-platform and cross-product compatibility provides seamless
migration for rapidly growing organizations while protecting all
existing investments. For larger companies in particular, this also
means direct cost savings in deployment, user training and system
administration.
LinkScan operates on all Unix Systems (including AIX, BSDI,
FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, Linux, and SunOS/Solaris
flavors), and Microsoft Windows (95/98/NT/2000) platforms.
Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 8.2 may be
downloaded from the company's website at:
http://www.elsop.com/
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:46:36 CST
From: michael@moria.de
Subject: Bas 0.9 - BASIC interpreter
Bas is an interpreter for the programming language BASIC, written in
ANSI C for UNIX systems. It is meant to be compatible to typical BASIC
interpreters of the 1980s, unlike some other UNIX BASIC interpreters,
that implement a different syntax which breaks compatibility with
existing programs. Bas incorporates some features of BBC BASIC such as
procedures, local variables, extended exception handling and automatic
LIST indentation. It understands unnumbered programs and many ANSI
BASIC statements for structured programming and a couple extensions
from other BASIC dialects such as matrix operations and TDL BASIC
style functions. The interpreter tokenises the source and resolves
references to variables and jump targets before running the program.
This compilation pass increases efficiency and catches syntax errors,
type errors and references to variables that are never initialised.
The source is available at:
http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/
Michael Haardt
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