Finally I’m using Linux at work! I can do some kick-ass work on perl scripting, database connectivity, and do some cool automation to update the site everyday! 🙂 The Beginners Linux Guide has moved home to www.linux.ie, so go over there and check out some of the new docs Owen has written! Mesa has reached version 3.0 which is old news by now but worth mentioning anyway! I got an email yesterday from someone asking about coding in assembly. I used to code demos using ASM, but that was quite a while ago. In this day and age I would […]

All you mp3 fans should get over to the Blade enc. homepage. It’s something like 25-30% faster than the 8hz encoder and while source isn’t available, there are glibc2 and libc5 version for i386 Linux. Other platforms are supported too and well worth downloading. The Mesa openGL library has finally reached version 3 although I guess you all knew about this thanks to slashdot and freshmeat. 😉 Check out Linux Games for a link to screenshots to a version of Xmame using openGL. Looks cool!

I found a few things of interest on freshmeat today. First off is FxEngine which is a graphics lib for the 3dfx using 3dfx glide. It originally appeared on Win32 but a slightly earlier version was ported to Linux. So, if you want to do a 3dfx demo in win32 and Linux then this may be the answer. The screenshots are impressive on the homepage although if the fps in them is true I wonder if it’s slow.. A new release of Prometheus Truecolour is out too. Supposedly it has a ton of new changes so get it if you’re […]

According to Linux Games there’s a new game using openGL called BFRIS. It’ll apparently be released on Linux too and the screenshots look pretty tasty! You may have seen links to NewsNow popping up around the place. It’s a very good site for grabbing the latest headlines. You can even grab the latest Linux headlines! Unfortunetly their database hasn’t been updated at this time since Sep. 11th so news is actually old, but when they have it running properly again you can expect up to the hour news! Check out NewsNow if you want to be the first to post […]

A bit late with this update. The Babylon Project was featured on Slashdot a while back. It has an ambitious aim, it “aims to become a standard development platform for Computer Games (and possibly other software in the future) allowing the developer to make one executable that can run on any x86 based microprocessor, regardless of operating system (thus freeing the developer to concentrate on developing the GAME, and not having to worry about platform specific problems).” They’re going to use Linux as a base OS, one reason being is the availability of the OS on many different architectures. It […]