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Category: simulation
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Description: Slipstream is a free multi-body vehicle simulator.

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improved terrain shading
accurate off-road tire contact and response
an improved vehicle model

Category: simulation
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Description: Billiards is a free cue sports simulator.

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Mostly a bugfix release with some needed changes to make Billiards work with Techne 0.2.3.

Category: puzzle
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Description: gbrainy is a brain teaser game

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Updated translations
Bugfixes

Category: simulation
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Description: Free real-time space simulation

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bugs fixes
new and more complete translations
updated data files (including new exoplanet discoveries)

Category: strategy
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Description: An Open Source implementation of Colonization.

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Bugfixes

Category: board
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Description: Computer program that plays the board game Blokus.

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Newly supported game variant Blokus Junior
New game analysis function
Improved playing strength

I've been to Linuxtag today and met the Holarse crew again. They are posting live from their booth, so if you speak German, have a look at their Linuxtag post.

Category: action
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Description: 2D Platform game

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Updated Spanish, Czech, French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian translations (thanks translators)
Fixed a problem where the player could get stuck in the Fortress Mine
Bats and Books no longer get stuck after attacking you
Prevented certain items from being used when Edgar is a Slime, such as the Ice Spray
Resetting a mirror while it is reflecting light no longer leaves it unusable
Fixed a random crash when the Green Scanners spot you in the Armoury
Chaos's tendrils now release Edgar when he dies
Fixed a problem where Evil Edgar could get blocked by a spring during his first cutscene
The Awesome Foursome now longer freeze if one of them is killed during their super attacks
More fixes to Mataeus's rift sounds

Category: code
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Description: Cross-platform library for portable low level I/O access

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Fixed assembly register clobbering in CPU info routines
Fixed memory stomp when using stretch blit on large images
Fixed pixel corruption with overlapping blits
SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE can be a colon separated list of joystick devices
Disabled MMX blitters since they don't compile on modern compilers

Category: strategy
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Description: An empire-building strategy game

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Bug fix: the city bribe cost could be negative.
Bug fix: in a game with many players, the server could crash when the game ended.
Bug fix: assertion failures associated with many auto-settlers trying to work on the same project.
Bug fix: possible server crash in rulesets with barbarian nations with only a single leader defined.
Add a confirmation popup when disbanding units.
(Gtk) All diplomatic meeting popups now open in a single tab, to improve usability in games with many players.
(SDL) Several UI bug fixes.
Improvements to AI diplomat behaviour.
Updated translations.

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