Release Digest: GNOME, November 5, 2003 | Linux Today

Release Digest: GNOME, November 5, 2003

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 6, 2003

Monster Masher 1.4

Gnomes grow up. So do monsters. The surprising thing is that the
same is true for rocks. Don’t believe me? See for yourself if your
hardware is large enough…

What’s new since 1.4:

  • Support for multiple tile sizes. Included are 24×24 pixel (same
    as in previous releases) tiles and 32×32 tiles. Monster Masher will
    automatically select the large tiles if the screen is big enough
    (above 1024×768).
  • Replaced the ugly animation when the gnome was pushing blocks
    with a neat magic overlay on blocks!
  • Code cleanup, including proper exception handling
  • New and updated translations (by Metin Amiroff, Kostas
    Papadimas, Michiel Sikkes, Artur Flinta)

About Monster Masher:

In the old days, before man entered the world, the gnomes were
abundant. Through centuries of hard labour, only slightly eased by
the levitational powers provided to them by their god, they bored
out shafts and caves in the mountains. Always seeking the precious
stones and valuable ore…

Monster Masher is a GPL’ed mash’em-up action game for GNOME.
Each level contains a number of blocks and monsters. You’re a
little gnome running around. By pushing the blocks you can mash the
monsters one at a time. There are various power-ups and different
kinds of monsters.

http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/monster-masher/
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/monster-masher/screenshots.html

The requirements are Gnome 2.2 and the gtkmm and gnomemm-all
libraries from www.gtkmm.org/.

Fullscreen mode is on the todo list so that people with 1024×768
displays can enjoy large gnomes (and monsters and rocks) too.


Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/


GNUSim8085 1.2.3

Application

GNUSim8085 1.2.3

Description

A simulator and assembler for the Intel 8085 Mircroprocessor

Enhancements

  • Added RPM packages
  • Added Slackware packages
  • UI enhancements

Fixes

  • Changed package files
  • Added “make install” doc directory miss

Download

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnusim8085

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnusim8085


Epiphany 1.0.5

Hi,

What is it?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

What’s changed?

Epiphany 1.0.5

Bugfixes

  • Fixes for printing dialogue when shown from mozilla
    (Christian)
  • Don’t show a failure dialogue when cancelling the print
    dialogue shown from mozilla (Christian)
  • Initialise the print dialogue also when shown from mozilla
    (Christian)
  • Always show the print dialogue when printing from mozilla
    (Christian)
  • Only allow printing the selection when there really is one
    (Christian)

Translations

  • ca (Jordi Mas)
  • ga (David O’Callaghan)
  • sk (Marcel Telka)
  • sv (Christian Rose)
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Where can I get it?

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.0/epiphany-1.0.5.tar.bz2

Epiphany 1.0 requires Mozilla 1.4, 1.4.1, or 1.5.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.5:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/src/mozilla-source-1.5.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Regards,

Christian

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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