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Linux Console Progress (9:50 PST)
The Tux Box Project is picking up steam again. They are working on a Linux based video game console with DVD and MP3 playing capability. The Tux Box will have both freeware and commercial games. Tux Box Games is a new project at SourceForge for Free (GPL) games being developed for the Tux Box console.
- The Serpent Lord

GPL Quake 2 Engine Source (8:10 PST)
As a special Christmas present from the folks at id Software, The Quake 2 engine source code has been released as Free Software under the GNU General Public License. You can download the source here.
- The Serpent Lord

Converted (17:30 PST)
We converted our Corel linux machine to Red Hat 7.2. It was as easy to install as Corel, and it works better. In fact we even have it dual booting with gates '98. We didn't use Red Hat before because it was not as good as it is now. But now Red Hat is king!
- BFGalbraith

Open Source Now (17:55 PST)
Red Hat has a new, very important web page out called "Open Source Now." If you have not allready visited it, I recomend that you do..
- BFGalbraith

Merry Christmas!!! (11:00 PST)
We have a new Open Quartz self-installing game just in time for Christmas. Among other things, it includes more sounds donated by Ali Jackson.
- Lunz

H&S Development (18:35 PST)
The Hack and Slash computer game Project Documentation has been updated with new information about compiling the QuakeForge engine and checking out modules with CVS. The free, open source Hack and Slash project can use all kinds of help. Join the mailing list if you'd like to help out.
- The Serpent Lord

Squawk Character Wizard (17:15 PST)
The Squawk Character Generation Wizard has been updated. It is still incomplete, but it now seems to work on Netscape Communicator 4.73 in Corel Linux where it used to freeze up the browser. It could already be useful for generating basic dimensions for characters of various Squawk anthrosaur races quickly.
- The Serpent Lord

New Role-Playing System (11:15 PST)
We've just released a new version of the free Hack and Slash Role-Playing System. You can use this system to create your own Role-Playing Games - the kind that you play with paper and pencil and dice or video and computer games.

Hack and Slash has been free and "open source" since before open gaming was cool!

The new Hack and Slash Role-Playing System license gives you all the freedoms garaunteed by the old license, plus new options that should make it easy to use Hack and Slash or parts of it in your own RPGs and software. (Specifically you can now use Hack and Slash with the Lesser GPL or the Open Game License.)

Other enhancements to the Hack and Slash Role-Playing System include a simpler organization, shared combat system for hand to hand and missile weapons, new rules for archery and thrown weapons, and updated tutorials.
- The Serpent Lord

Red Hat Slaps Microsoft (21:40 PST)
Microsoft had a lesser-known class-action suit against it for using their operating system to sell other Microsoft software at inflated prices. In a settlement, Microsoft agreed to help further their market by giving their software to under funded schools. Red Hat responded by offering to do the same, asking Microsoft to instead donate hard ware instead of their same-old same-old lousy software.
- BFGalbraith

Fight Evil (21:30 PST)
Upset about last month's antitrust suit against microsoft settlement including no punishment for their past sins nor serious safeguards against future monopolistic practices? Send your letters to the department of justice-Microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov
- BFGalbraith

An Early Christmas (7:00 PST)
We had to go all the way to the state capital to get it, but now its here. We got the last GAMECUBE at a Circuit City in Olympia.
- Lunz

November Review (17:45 PST)
Some important things happened last month. We began working on a Squawk character wizard. There was a new Qbism patch. But most importantly of all, I got to play the GAMECUBE!
- Lunz