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August 5th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

Freeciv 2.2.7 was released recently and I updated my SlackBuild script for it.
The Freeciv 2.2.x series of releases are mainly bug fixes, while the development of new features continues in the upcoming 2.3.x branch - which is still in beta.
While the script is pending approval on SlackBuilds.org, you can get pre-built packages from my site.

September 18th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

This week a new version of Freeciv was released, 2.2.3.
It contains several improvements and bug fixes and also some updated translations.
A summary of all the changes can be found on the "NEWS" page.
As always, I submitted the new SlackBuild and uploaded the new versions for Slackware and Slackware64 to my site.

September 11th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Some months ago I created a Slackware package for XSpacewarp, a game originally from 1977.
A fellow Slackware enthusiast wrote a man-page for this little game and found an "app-defaults" file on the internet, so that many settings in the game can now be customized.
I played a bit with the settings and now my spaceship is [...]