Thema: Freie Linux- / Windowsspiele

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Lucas Chess is a chess game with a chess trainer built in designed to help you beat increasingly difficult opponents with a limited number of hints. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Changelog

Fixed

    Consulting a book, submoves notation is missing using + button of the toolbar.
    Best move training, changed the lost pawns label.
    Readjustments to the external position scanner.
    Databases, editing a game, sizes in the information area.
    Custom sounds-Linux, selecting a wav file does not work.
    Shortcuts, editing a label does not work.

Updated

    External engines must exist in order to add them to the list of engines.
    The internal translation system now allows translation of openings as well.
    Scanner, simplified its use in relation to selection of the board to be scanned, if selected with the left button the white pieces are down, with the right button the black pieces are down.
    Calculation of elo from the analysis.
    Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill. New driver to Square Off. Some small improvements to the BLE connection process so the Pegasus and Millennium drivers.
    2.1a: Chinese updated, all openings are translated, by Zoushen.

Engines

    Updated Stockfish, Version 15 32bits+64bits+64bmi2, T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott, https://stockfishchess.org/

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LaunchBox is a portable box art based games database and launcher for DOSBox, emulators, and PC games. LaunchBox aims to be the one-stop shop for gaming on your computer, for both modern and historical games.

Get Up and Running Right Away

It includes automated import processes for Steam and D-Fend Reloaded in order to help get you up and running as quickly as possible. Game box-art and metadata is automatically downloaded from TheGamesDB.net, a community-based online database that allows anyone to contribute. More import processes are planned for the near future, including Origin, DBGL, and batch ROM imports.

Freemium

Changelog

    Fixed: The new LaunchBox Themes Manager was not always working properly for non-premium users
    Fixed: Very rare error when closing the LaunchBox picture viewer
    Fixed: Bad URLs from Amazon Games screenshots were causing rare errors

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Changelog

    Improvement: The saving process that occurs after LaunchBox or Big Box closes should be significantly faster
    Improvement: SelectedItemSpacing property was added to FlowControl that allows the spacing around the item currently selected to be different than other items (for theme developers)
    Improvement: The PictureViewer was visually updated with added context regarding what type of image you are looking at
    Improvement: Platform matching when searching for EmuMovies content has been improved
    Fixed: A white line could appear at the top of your monitor when viewing images in full screen
    Fixed: Rare error when navigating through different wizards
    Fixed: The LaunchBox Themes Manager was unusable if no internet was detected
    Fixed: Empty entries could appear at the top of the "Scrape As" drop-down menu
    Fixed: The Related Games feature could show improper results when using different languages

 

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The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a fantasy theme.

The Battle for Wesnoth has you building up an, gradually turning recruits into. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host that none can stand against. Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.

Freeware

Changelog

General

New Content»

    Terrain embellishments
    Additional rock and rubble terrain embellishments have been added.

Changes To Existing Content»

    Add-ons password storage
    When uploading an add-on, there is now an option to store the password so that it doesn't need to be re-entered each time.

Fixes»

    Using arrow keys in small screen mode
    Using the arrow keys to try and scroll on the add-ons manager while in small screen mode no longer closes the add-ons manager with an error message.
    Updating add-ons from the multiplayer lobby
    When someone is hosting a game which required some add-on and you have an outdated version of this add-on, the game proposes to update the add-on. This will now actually update the add-on when the player tells Wesnoth to update the outdated add-ons.
    Add-ons with no version information
    Wesnoth will no longer crash when highlighting an add-on in the add-ons manager which has no version information present at all.
    Firststrike crash
    When a unit has an ability that gives its opponent the firststrike weapon special, Wesnoth will no longer crash.
    Inconsistent scroll speed
    Scrolling around a map will now scroll at a much more consistent speed.

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Domination is a board game designed to play like Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. The game features maps from the UK, America, Lord of the Rings, and more that can be downloaded online or made on your own. It is written in Java and includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single-player, hot seat, five-user interfaces, and more.

License: Open Source

Changelog

   Fix for lobby failed to launch when javax.crypto.JceSecurity not found
   New field in game for minimumNewArmies that can be set depending on the game options
   New Italian rules: no minimum armies, if you have less than 3 counties, you get 0 armies
   New Italian rules: during trade get 2 extra armies for each country, and can place them anywhere
   New Italian rules: game engine/network play version now 14

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Whats new:>>

LaunchBox 12.12 is out today with support for image packs to curate images for your collection and automatic bezel downloads from The Bezel Project (our top two most-voted requests from the poll)!

http://www.launchbox-app.com/

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    Improvement: The Bezel window will now appear during imports when using older versions of MAME that use the mame64.exe executable, as well as versions of MAMEUI
    Improvement: Added the ability to display the content image in LaunchBox's ListView (for theme devs)
    Improvement: Bezels are downloaded for additional applications as well as the primary version of the game
    Improvement: RetroArch bezels will now have their opacity set to 1.0 via the game override setting
    Fixed: RetroArch bezels for some Arcade platforms will now properly download
    Fixed: Pressing Browse in the Add Additional Application window would sometimes throw an error

http://www.launchbox-app.com/

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LaunchBox 12.14 is out today with a complete overhaul for Big Box, including a new default theme, improved performance and stability, and a modern overhaul for all popup screens! We've also added the ability to export MS-DOS games to Android! Enjoy!

http://www.launchbox-app.com/

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Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft and the like.

It is designed to be simple, stable and portable. It is lightweight enough to run on fairly old hardware.

Minetest allows you to walk around, dig and build in an infinite voxel world, and craft stuff from raw materials, it includes a simplistic Modding API that supports many kinds of additions and modifications to the game. There is multiplayer support via servers hosted by other users as well as support for multiple languages, translated by the users within the community.

License: Open Source

Changelog

Deprecations and compatibility notes

    name in game.conf is deprecated for the game title
        For specifying the game title from now on, use title instead

Client / Audiovisuals

    Dynamic shader-based shadows for: nodes, entities, wield (x2048)
        Includes many, many bugfixes and improvements (tuning, performance)
    Fixed statbar HUD background scaling and numbering (appgurueu)
    Apply texture pack main menu textures immediately (ROllerozxa)
    Fix footsteps for players whose collision box min y != 0 (grorp)
    Add depth sorting for node faces (x2048)
        This fixes appearance issues when looking through multiple semi-transparent nodes.
        This works only up to a distance of 16 nodes by default. Use the transparency_sorting_distance setting to adjust this
    Optimize swapping nodes with equivalent lighting (TurkeyMcMac)
    Fix item entity Z-fighting (appgurueu)
    Use mod names/titles instead of technical names to display (GoodClover)
    Fix texture packs not showing as enabled in mainmenu (rubenwardy)
    Debug screen now shows "<unknown node>" at the top if an unknown node is pointed (Wuzzy)
    Enable chat clickable weblinks by default (Ctrl+Click) (Froggo)
    HUD: Fix outdated selection boxes (appgurueu)
    Make no_screenshot image more clear (Zughy)
    Add register dialog to separate login/register (rubenwardy)
    No damage effects on hp_max change (appgurueu)
    Fix updating glow and light calculation on entities (sfan5)
    Fix unknown nodes sometimes displaying the "no texture" instead of the "unknown node" texture (Wuzzy)

World / Server / Environment

    Distinct mod path values in world.mt to avoid issues with duplicated mod names (rubenwardy)
    Fix broken server startup if curl is disabled (sfan5)
    Increase max. objects per block defaults (appgurueu)
    Builtin: Allow to revoke unknown privileges (SmallJoker)
    Fix some textures not being sent correctly to older clients (Oblomov)
    Fix several registration/authentication related issues (sfan5)
    Fix dependency enabling of mods and modpacks (rubenwardy, TurkeyMcMac)
    Fix cooking and fuel crafts with aliases (TurkeyMcMac)
    Commands: Some numbers can be replaced or prepended with "~" for values relative to the current one (Wuzzy)
        "~" is equivalent to "~0"
        Supported commands: /deleteblocks, /emergeblocks, /fixlight, /spawnentity, /teleport, /time
        Example: "/teleport 15 ~5 ~" teleports to (15, <current Y coordinate plus 5>, <current Z coordinate>)
    Don't allow banning in singleplayer (sfan5)
    Docs: Add description of privileges (x2048)
    Increase max FPS on Android to 60 (ROllerozxa)
    Add many limits to settingtypes + engine (Wuzzy, SmallJoker)
    Reorganise settingtypes.txt (rubenwardy)

Script API / Modding

    Improved formspec documentation (DS)
    Optimization: Send HUD flags only if they changed (appgurueu)
    Allow to set the displayed item count and its alignment via item meta: count_meta, count_alignment (DS)
    Add support for 'seed' in disallowed_mapgen_settings (Wuzzy)
    List of documentation improvements:
        AreaStore (SmallJoker)
        Lua vector helper class (sfan5)
        spawn_by for decorations (Zughy)
        LBM documentation (TurkeyMcMac)
        Overall improvements (sfan5)
    Allow get_sky to return a table of all sky-related parameters (Zughy)
    Add basic_debug HUD flag to control display of debug info like position in the debug screen (on by default) (appgurueu)
    Fix memory leak from SpatialAreaStore (setupminimal)
    Add function ObjectRef:set_lighting() to control shadow intensity from the game/mod (x2048)
    Fix '[combine' when EVDF_TEXTURE_NPOT is disabled (paradust7)
    hud_get: Return precision field for waypoint (appgurueu)
    Add Async environment for parallelized Lua code execution (sfan5)
        minetest.handle_async
        minetest.register_async_dofile
    Fix Minetest blaming the wrong mod for errors (appgurueu)
    Deprecate game.conf name, use title instead (#12030) (rubenwardy)
    Protect a few more settings from being set from mods (sfan5)
    Add function ObjectRef:respawn() to invoke player respawn (sfan5)
    Handle Lua entity HP changes correctly (like punches) (sfan5)
    Add tool helper function ItemStack:add_wear_by_uses() to add tool wear in such a way that it has a given number of uses (Wuzzy)
    Add minetest.get_tool_wear_after_use to simulate tool wear when expecting it to break after a given number of uses (Wuzzy)
    on_deactivate entity callback: distinguish removal and unloading (appgurueu)
    Remove tile_images and special_materials obsolete code (Zughy)
    set_stars: Allow to set maximum star opacity at daytime with day_opacity (Wuzzy)
    FormSpec: 9-slice images, animated_image, and fgimg_middle (v-rob)

Misc / Maintenance

Code details are intentionally omitted due to the changelog target audience's interests.

    Fix macOS compile instructions (sfan5)
    Various C++ code cleanups and improvements (TurkeyMcMac, sfan5, Oblomov, SmallJoker, Octavian, RichardTry, savilli, JosiahWI)
    List of DevTest game improvements:
        TGA test nodes (ehrlemann)
        Test weapons and armorball modes (Wuzzy)
        Nodes and items for testing overlays (Wuzzy)
        Entity lifecycle and callbacks (sfan5)
        Item metadata editor (Wuzzy)
    Minetest now uses C++14
    Remove direct OpenGL(ES) dependency (sfan5)
    Compile Lua as C++ to properly catch exceptions (TurkeyMcMac)
    Build system improvements (sfan5, ShadowNinja, LoneWolfHT)
    Run automated tests when Lua files change (x2048)
    Add JSON (de)serialization benchmarks (paradust7)
    Performance optimizations by caching (mapblocks, collisionbox) (sfan5)
    Add more Prometheus metrics (sfan5)
    Add documentation to list breaking changes for the next major release (Zughy)
    Patch built-in Lua to fix miscompile on Android (paradust7)
    Fix BSD iconv declaration (savilli)
    Fix Android input box crash (ROllerozxa)


Minetest Game

    Improved cart movement behavior (SmallJoker)
        Improved direction handling
        Smoother-out 'end-of-rail' animation
        Other improvements
    Dynamic shadow intensity increases with cloud density (only has an effect if you have dynamic shadows enabled) (lhofhansl)
    Allow mods to override player animation globalstep with player_api.globalstep (LoneWolfHT)
    Log API added (nixnoxus)
    Fix crash if player has no model (Lars Mueller)
    Fix broken get_animation in player_api (bell07)
    Fix furnace fire sound continuing to play after being destroyed (Wuzzy)
    Fix TNT blowing up ignore nodes (Wuzzy)
    Fix some hoes not breaking after the intended number of uses (Wuzzy)
    Fix book duplication glitch (appgurueu)
    Fix incorrect behavior of glass and obsidian glass if param2 was changed (appgurueu)
    Fix cart sometimes facing the wrong way at slopes (not a 100% perfect bugfix tho) (SmallJoker)
    New translation: Polish (mrubax10)
    Translation updates: Ukrainian (baytuch), Russian (baytuch), German (Wuzzy), Lojban (Wuzzy), Esperanto (quarthex)

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Changelog

    Frequent crashes in online multiplayer
    It was discovered soon after releasing 1.16.4 that Wesnoth would consistently crash when playing online multiplayer games. This issue has been resolved.
    Sidebar displaying incorrectly on low resolutions
    The right sidebar will now display properly at 800x600 resolution.
    AI sometimes causing the game to freeze
    Fixed the AI taking far longer to move than it should in certain situations, which caused the entire game to freeze.
    Scroll lock breaking hotkeys and mouse left clicks
    Fixed an issue when using SDL 2.0.18 or later which resulted in the hotkeys and mouse left clicks not doing anything when scroll lock was enabled.
    Crash when a unit's attacks are removed during combat
    Wesnoth will no longer crash if a unit's attacks are removed during combat by some effect, such as an ability or weapon special.

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OpenLoco is an Open Source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, a construction and management simulation video game that simulates running a transport company.

License: Open Source

Changelog

    Fix: [ #1612 ] Ambient audio no longer playing.
    Fix: [ #1613 ] Crash when viewing the Build Trains window with certain trains.
    Fix: [ #1614 ] Crash when ai picks up none existent vehicles.

Known issues

    Multiplayer functionality is not available at this time.

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Fixes»

    Animation fixes
    Animations now display correctly when zoomed and when over water.
    Movement range after turn end
    The maximum possible movement range of your units is now shown immediately after ending your turn when hovering over them, rather than their remaining movement range.
    Out Of Sync errors
    Fixed some add-ons causing out of sync errors even when not being used in the current game.

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Changelog

5.6.0 ? 5.6.1

Draft. These contents are not definitive and might change at any time.

Client / Audiovisuals

    Fix tooltips for dropdown, scrollbar and more (Desour)
    Allow the comma as clickable URL component (pecksin)
    Correct the entity glow calculation (x2048)
    Get the setting texture_min_size to work again (fluxionary)
    Scale hardcoded/integrated GUIs with the system-reported DPI (ElliottLester)
    Overwriting a package via "Content" no longer triggers an error (rubenwardy)

World / Server / Environment

    Fix potential use-after-free with item metadata (TurkeyMcMac)
    Compatibility patch to not freeze older clients due to negative "frame_length" Tile Animation values (sfan5)
    Dynamic shadows performance improvement by delaying non-urgent mapblocks (x2048)

Script API / Modding

    Fix several crashes caused by clear_craft in combination with aliases (savilli)
    Serialization: Restore (full) pre-5.6.0 compatibility (appgurueu)
    LuaJIT: Workaround to allow larger serializations (appgurueu)
    Enforced hp_max > 0 for entities (appgurueu)
    Node Definition "tiles" and "special_tiles" again default to nil when not specified (Zughy)
    Allow minetest.register_on_craft to return strings (was: ItemStack) (Zughy)
    ObjectRef:set_stars to reset the stars no longer throws an error (Zughy)

Misc / Maintenance

    x86 Android build fixes (savilli)

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Changelog

Added

    Book Strategie, other wonderful set of pieces created by Ben Citak.
    Book Strategie B, for non-ADDEDspaper style board backgrounds by Ben Citak.
    Book Strategie theme created by Ben Citak to emulate the old style used in the French chess magazine La Strategie in 1938 (also L'Echiquier).
    Opening Lines, shows comments when training.
    Databases, numerical sorting: press Ctrl (Alt or Shift) while double clicking on the header.
    CTRL SHIFT C (ALT SHIFT C) to copy PGN to the clipboard
    On the position analysis screen, alternative moves can be analyzed by moving pieces directly on the board.
    Analysis of a game, option to include analysis of the variations.
    On any board, ALT-X to play the current position, it is a little different from the utilities menu, only the position is used, but it can be used with any board and with any position on the board.
    Shift Right mouse on pgn table to show the tree of moves.
    Select files, option to change from a custom to native in the Configuration window.
    Eboards can be used in Gaviota endgames training.
    Eboards can be used in Learn a game training.

Changed

    Added ALT C to copy FEN to clipboard instead of CTRL C in Options/Settings (to fix problem with some screen readers using CTRL C).
    Director/Graphics elements, left button used to remove all and Del/Backspace to remove the last one, only right button is used to create graphics.

Fixed

    Create your own game/Utilities/Enable engine
    Promotion with check not render correctly in pgn table.
    Playing against any engine, personalities dont be saved.

Updated

    Eboards drivers by Graham O'Neill (version 3 to LC)
    Chess leagues, the number of opponents is free, with a minimum equal to twice the number of those configured to move from one division to another at the end of the season.
    Language Euskara, all openings are translated, by Ilurdi.
    Language Euskara by Ilurdi.
    Language French, updated openings translations, by Eric.
    Language French by Eric and Lolo
    Language Chinese by Zoushen
    Language Polish by Darek
    Language German by Johannes Bolzano.

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Whats new:>>

LaunchBox 12.15 is out today with storefront game management, platform details in LaunchBox, and much more!

http://www.launchbox-app.com/