Let's Play: Dungeons of Dredmor

A funny bidimensional RPG with some strange monsters and a bunch of useless items... This is Dungeons of Dredmor!

A hard choice!

This game works on Ubuntu with its native client and it is playable also with Desura, so you don't need to do any reasonable choice. To learn how to design and develop RPG games, check out game design degrees at online universities that can teach you how to make your own RPG using games development softwares that are easy to use.

Talking about performances...

First of all my hardware:

agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
kernel: 3.0.0-16-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 3960
soundcard: HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.24
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 1024
videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.4

Sadly, this time i couldn't do any comparison. I didn't find any way to show FPS, but i assure you that the game doesn't need any powerful system, and the video will show you how good it works on Ubuntu!

Conclusion: the game runs GREAT on Ubuntu.

Installation:



Important: i got this game with a Humble Bundle, but i found out that the .deb package doesn't work with my 64bit system. It needs the 1.0.9 REV B patch, which i think it's available only on Desura. So, if you got that Humble Bundle (the Introversion one), be sure to redeem the game on Desura!!
The process takes about 5 minutes (including download time).

Running:



Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!

Wine 1.4.rc5 released

The Wine development release 1.4-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.4-rc5.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4-rc5.tar.bz2

For more details and the complete list of bug fixes follow this link:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4-rc5

Update for The Humble Bundle Mojam

http://www.humblebundle.com

Great news! It seems that 2 other great indie studios have been added to the Mojam project! They are Wolfire Games and Oxeye Game Studio!
And... The game from Mojang Team will be called "Catacomb Snatch"!
2 other great indie studios for 2 more great indie games! Pay what you want, help charity and get 3 games, all of them done in less than 60 hours!!!!
Stay tuned for more news!

Wine 1.4-rc4 released

The Wine development release 1.4-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.4-rc4.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4-rc4.tar.bz2

For more details and the complete list of bug fixes follow this link:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4-rc4

The Humble Bundle Mojam

http://www.humblebundle.com

Hey! It's time again for a new Humble Bundle!
But it's not the same bundle as always... This time, if you buy the bundle, your money will help charity and you will help the Mojang team (the creators of Minecraft!!) creating a brand new game in 60 hours. This game is what you pay for!!! Online classes about game development should be able to teach you how to develop your own game using software based hardware abstraction layers.



Yes, pay what you want for a new game created in 60 hours (and it will be a Real-Time Strategy Shoot em' up with a steampunk ancient Egypt theme)! And if you go to the site, you can watch Mojang team while developing the game LIVE!
Hurry up! You have just 50 hours to contribute to this awesome project!!! Don't be stupid and be quick!

Crossover Games 10.3.0 released

On January 6, 2011 (sorry for the delay again), CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games (10.3.0 version), and this is the changelog:

• Fixes for Skyrim on Linux.
• Patch fixes for World of Warcraft.

You can download at this page:

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/

Remember that CrossOver team provides you a free 7 days trial, but the full program is not free!

Wine 1.4-rc3 released

The Wine development release 1.4-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.4-rc3.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4-rc3.tar.bz2

For more details and the complete list of bug fixes follow this link:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4-rc3

Let's Play: Mupen64Plus

Who doesn't remember games like Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 64, NBA Hang Time, Starfox 64, Banjo & Kazooie etc...? Now you can play all of them! Mupen64Plus is a Nintendo 64 emulator and is available for linux! What else do you want?

A hard ch... Oh come on!

Mupen64Plus has its own native Linux client, so which kind of choice do you want to do?

Talking about performances...

First of all my hardware:

agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
cpu_ghz: 0.80
distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
kernel: 3.0.0-15-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 3960
soundcard: HDA ATI SB at 0xfbcf4000 irq 16
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.24
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 1024
videocard_type: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.4

As i said before for P-UAE emulator, performances does not depend by the OS, since it's an emulator. It depends by your hardware and by the OS itself. Anyway, on Ubuntu it works like a charm (Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit version)!

Installation



The installation takes about 2 minutes.
The program doesn't need any plugin. It provides a graphic plugin, a sound plugin and an input plugin. All you have to do is configure them.

Running



Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!

The Humble Bundle for Android

http://www.humblebundle.com

It is time for a brand new "Humble Bundle" release!
But this time, it's a bit different... Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem...), Windows (boo this OS), Linux (i shake my own hands) but also on... ANDROID!
Yes, if you buy this bundle, you can also play these games on your Android smartphone! Really? Really!



Buying this bundle you will get:

- Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a highly rated strategic game!
- Osmos, a cute puzzle game (already seen in previous Humble bundles)
- EDGE, another casual puzzle platformer game

And, if you pay more than the average price (now about 6 dollars), you will get World of Goo! Come on, who doesn't know World of Goo?
I repeat, you can play these games on Linux (with their respective native linux clients), but you can also play them on Android!!!
Also, you can redeem them on Steam and you get all the soundtracks!
Don't be stupid and be quick, this offer ends in ten days!!!!

Wine 1.4-rc2 released

The Wine development release 1.4-rc2 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.4-rc2.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4-rc2.tar.bz2

For more details and the complete list of bug fixes follow this link:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.4-rc2