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No One Lives Forever Update 2 1.3
No One Lives Forever Update 2 - First person shooter featuring UNITY operative Cate Archer more>>
What harm does H.A.R.M. wish to inflict on secret agent Cate Archer? Find out in the sequel to one of the most highly acclaimed shooters of 2000. Agent Archer employs an vast arsenal of guns and gadgets - plus a wardrobe to die for - in challenging missions that span the globe. Powered by the new LithTech Jupiter System for the latest in graphic brilliance.
Main features:
- Mulitple Play Modes: Charge in with guns blazing or focus on stealth to evade and outsmart your enemy.
- Includes over 40 action-packed single-player levels.
- Mission-based cooperative multiplayer - up to 4 players work together as a team.
- Travel to exotic locales as diverse as India, Japan, Siberia and Ohio, and immerse yourself in secret-agent intrigue.
- Square off against despicable new villains like elusive Ninjas, wiley Mimes and ruthless Soviets, and encounter some familiar foes as well.
- Co-op: Two agents that get to help the crazy Kate Archer in different map scenarios.
- Death Match: You against everyone else. No teams
- Team Death Match: A team against another team
- Doomsday: Two teams. There are three pieces of a "Doomsday" device through-out the map. Find and pick-up parts of the device and bring it back to your base. All three pieces assemble the device. Once built, the "Doomsday" device pops the other team and you win the shindig.
Enhancements:
- Fixes refresh rate conflict preventing start-up.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Mac)
All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Mac) is a very serviceable tool which is designed specially for mature audiences only. more>>
All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Mac) is a very serviceable tool which is designed specially for mature audiences only.
The stories you are about to see will forever change your life and will affect the way you look at things you had previously taken for granted.
What you are about to see is photographic proof of a conspiracy so large and so complicated that the depth to which society is involved and the complete story behind the facts are still unknown.
Blue Screen of Death SS 1.01
Blue Screen of Death SS is a beautifully designed and attractive image of the cursed Blue Screen of Death as a Quartz Composer screensaver with ability to change colors. more>>
Blue Screen of Death SS 1.01 is a beautifully designed and attractive image of the cursed Blue Screen of Death as a Quartz Composer screensaver with ability to change colors.
Enhancements: Fixed white bars at top and bottem of the screen problem with 1024x768 monitor resolutions.
Ferris Wheel Of Death 1.3
Ferris Wheel Of Death is a free Ferris Wheel math game more>>
Adventures on Pirate Isle 1.0.6
Pirate adventure game. more>>
The adventure begins when Slash regains consciousness among the debris of his former vessel, determined to uncover the secrets of the island, its treasure, and to discover a means of returning home.
Slash is a sugar glider from the distant land of Australia. Roughly the size of a small squirrel, sugar gliders have a membranous flap of skin connecting their forepaw to their hind feet. Sugar gliders can use this layer of skin in order to glide up to 150 feet through the air, jumping from tree to tree to escape the jaws of their predators.
Our hero is a seaworthy buccaneer who wears his trusty sabre always at his side. He was a notable sailor aboard his ship, being able to leap from mast to mast seemingly without effort. During his future adventures on Pirate Isle, Slash will be able to run, jump, climb, and glide his way to and past obstacles of all kinds.
When strategic maneuvers are not an option, Slash can whip out his sabre to deal death to the most fearsome of foes. Sugar gliders love fresh fruit, so finding such items along the way can rejuvenate or even grant temporary powers to our stalwart marsupial.
Using his unique talents, his uncanny wit, and his deft swordsmanship Slash must travel deeper and deeper into Pirate Isle, avoiding natural predators such as sea gulls, giant crabs, and wild boars.
DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold 2.0.14
DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold brings you a very interesting puzzle game in which you can solve all the puzzles on the room and get out alive. more>>
DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold 2.0.14 brings you a very interesting puzzle game in which you can solve all the puzzles on the room and get out alive. The Mathematics Association of America called DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold The Best Puzzle Game of All Time. To call it a puzzle game is inadequate, however; the DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) games are sui generis. They're dungeon crawls for thinkers. Each room (more than 300 in the full game) is a puzzle, and you must plan every action your character takes carefully to ensure that you solve the puzzle and escape the room alive.
And the puzzles have been refined and polished over time by an active community of enthusiastic fans for years. You won't find the graphic glitz of big-publisher games here but you will find utterly unique and compelling gameplay. The Best Puzzle Game of All Time. Or so says the Mathematics Association of America, and who are to disagree? To call it a puzzle game is inadequate, however; the DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) games are sui generis, and about the only quick way to describe them is as "Gauntlet meets Sokoban."
You probably know of Gauntlet as a hyper-active arcadey dungeon crawl game--and Journey to Rooted Hold is, in some sense, a dungeon crawl, and there's quite a lot of combat with monsters involved. But it's turn-based--and every decision you make at every turn is vital to getting you through the current puzzle you face. Sokoban is the classic computer puzzle game in which you have to move boxes in through a maze to specified destinations, and any single false push is likely to block your path permanently. So you have to carefully plan every move. There are levels like this in Nethack that you may have encountered, too.
Now imagine if you take this basic idea, but instead of only one action (push), you have several, so that the variety and complexity of the puzzles becomes considerably greater. And that you set it in a dungeon with monsters to slay (though slaying this is also a process of puzzle solving rather than fact action or dice rolling)--but retaining that feeling that every move you make is critical and that carefully planning is required to solve every room. And lets say there were 350 such rooms, and that the puzzles involved had been designed and refined iteratively over literally years of development by a community of enthusiasts.
And that you overlaid on this an actual story, with humorous voice dialog... You'd have DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold. Caravel Games, the creators, call it a "thinking man's dungeon crawl," and that's not a bad description either. If you prize gameplay over glitz, and are eager for a game with a style completely different from the norm--you can't go wrong with DROD.
Dock Death 1.0
Kill/restore your Dock. more>>
Magnum Opus 1.3
20 years ago, the very first Macintosh personal computer was unveiled by Apple in Cupertino, CA. In order to help celebrate this momentous anniversary, widget : widget is extremely proud to announce more>>
20 years ago, the very first Macintosh personal computer was unveiled by Apple in Cupertino, CA. In order to help celebrate this momentous anniversary, widget : widget is extremely proud to announce the immediate availability of Magnum Opus, the largest compendium of Apple hardware icons ever made. This icon set has been in preparation for over 18 months. It contains no less than 270 individual icons, 4,769,280 individual pixels, in addition to a great deal of time, patience, and love. Every single Apple computer ever made is covered. If youre looking for a Newton icon, theres bound to be one here. If youve got a new eMac and need something cool to identify it by, then theres an eMac icon too. Even if you feel a bit nostalgic and fancy remembering the Lisa, Macintosh TV, or even the good ol Macintosh 128k, theyre all here as well. In addition to computers, the set also contains over 100 accessory icons, ranging from various ADB mouse to the brand new iPod mini.
Apple hasnt always had an easy ride. The mid-nineties nearly killed the company, and not a month goes by without a smug, pessimistic analyst foretelling the companys death. Yet one thing has remained synonymous with Apple over its tenure: the Macintosh. This is the product that has shaped Apple the most. Not the Apple I, or even the Lisa have had such a profound over Apple, let alone the world of computing. Whilst it may seem as though the Macintosh was launched only yesterday, twenty years is a long time. Its uncertain as to whether the Macintosh of tomorrow will be very similair to what we use now. But one thing is certain: it will probably be better.
Please join us in toasting the Macintosh to another glorious twenty years, and hopefully, many more after that..
Mac OS 8 or later.
Version 1.3: Added the 4G iPod. Tidied up some masks.
Macohesion Audio Show (Dec.)
Macohesion (December 1999) is a humorous QuickTime audio show that informs you about the latest findings against Microsoft, hot new products and press releases, opinions on Apples marketing more>> Macohesion (December 1999) is a humorous QuickTime audio show that informs you about the latest findings against Microsoft, hot new products and press releases, opinions on Apples marketing strategies, and more. Michael Piziak, a science teacher, is the voice behind the scenes in this amusing personal audio zine.
QuickTime 3.0 or later.
Crystal Cave Christmas Treasures 1.0
Crystal Cave Christmas Treasures is a popular and enjoyable game which will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief! more>> <<less
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows Of Undrentide Patch 1.6.7b1
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows Of Undrentide Patch - NWN improvements and fixes more>>
Neverwinter Nights: Shadows Of Undrentide Patch brindgs a multitude of improvements and fixes to the previous version of the game.
Enhancements:
- Official Campaign: Chapter 2E - Made Volerons OnDeath script a bit more robust.
- HotU: Chapter 2 - Fixed an issue that could sometimes occur during the battle in the Environs near the end of Chapter 2. You should no longer get stuck and be unable to move if the Battle Herald does not approach you and initiate a conversation with you (this fix will retroactively fix saved games exhibiting this issue, but only if you load a saved game from before you entered the Environs).
- Added a new command line parameter for automatically loading a module in single player. This will cause the module to be loaded and takes the player to the premade character select screen.
- +LoadNewModule "module name that needs quotes if it contains spaces"
- Added a new command line parameter for automatically testing a module in single player. This will cause the module to be loaded and then starts the module using the first character listed on the premade character select screen.
- +TestNewModule "module name that needs quotes if it contains spaces"
- Added 3 portraits and 3 music themes from the BioWare Premium Modules Kingmaker, ShadowGuard, and Witchs Wake 1 to game resources.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the game to slow down and become unplayable at the start of SoU Chapter 2.
- Fixed an issue with creatures some times occupying the same space. This should happen a lot less frequently now.
- Extended the glowing monk eye effect to work on all the default playable races.
- Neutral monks now get ultra cool purple glowing eyes.
- Fixed placement of glowing monk eyes on Human/Half-Elf females (much thanks to the DLA team for their help with this).
- Fixed placement of helmets on Human/Half-Elf females (much thanks to the DLA team for their help with this).
- Added server support for the ability to refuse player login attempts if the master server could not be reached. In the nwnplayer.ini files under the heading [Server Options] set the follwowing option to 1 "Master Server Authentication Required For Player Login=1"
- Added the ability to turn on/off the Heartbeat logging in the log file (default is now off). In the nwnplayer.ini file under [Game Options] set "Heartbeat Logging=1" in order to turn the Heartbeat logging back on.
- Added a new nwnplayer.ini setting to have the server do some spell validation for spells cast by players. Under [Server Options] set "Validate Spells=1". Note: If you are using an edited spells.2da that is only being used server side, you may want to disable this option if your players are finding that they cant cast certain spells anymore (the log file should indicated if this is happening).
- Added new option to the nwnplayer.ini file under [Server Options] "Account validation required during Master Server down times=1" If this option is turned on, the server will track the public CD-Keys of each player logging onto the server. If the Master Server ever goes down for any reason (e.g. for scheduled maintenance) then the server will validate itself that the player name of any new player trying to connect is in fact using the same public cd-key that they last logged in with.
- Fixed an issue with the Greater Sanctuary icon some times incorrectly showing up as the regular Sanctuary icon.
- Fixed an issue with Damage Immunities not working correctly once they were stacked way too high above 100%.
- Fixed an issue with the Enable Texture Animations advanced video setting not being restored correctly when restarting the game (if it was turned off).
- Fixed Damage Immunities against weapons with more than one damage type (e.g. Halberds with slashing/piercing damage) to work correctly.
- Immunity to "Mind Affecting Spells" will no longer make you immune to the Monks Stunning Fist attack.
- Wounding effects are now removed from creatures once you leave the area that the wounded creature is in.
- Added skyboxes back into the outdoor areas of the original Official Campaign.
- Fixed an issue that could rarely cause your character to become illegal if you leveled up during an episode of game lag.
- The "Single Player Enforce Legal Characters" setting in the nwnplayer.ini file has been disabled. ELC is now always turned off in single player games.
- Fixed an issue that was causing creatures to always face east when sitting on a stool placeable (plc_x05.pwk).
- Fixed another issue where under specific circumstances items would not show up in your inventory panel.
- Immunity to mind spells no longer makes you immune to the Assasins Death Attack.
- Sneak/Death attacks now properly respect the Pale Masters Deathless Mastery feat.
- Fixed a minor animation issue that could occur if you performed a Whirlwind attack while you had some 2 handed weapons equipped.
- Fixed some issues with Tile "time of day" animations. This was causing flickering and other issues at the end of a DayToNight/NightToDay transition.
- Fixed an issue with the Force Field door sounds using the default wooden door sounds (placeableobjsnds.2da, genericdoors.2DA).
- Fixed an issue related to copying a creature from a hak pak through scripting and then saving and loading the hak pak saved game from inside gameplay (was causing some different weird issues).
- Added support for WeaponType 5 (Bludgeoning and Piercing) in the BaseItems.2da.
- Updated Morningstars to use the new Bludgeoning and Piercing WeaponType (BaseItems.2da).
- The following weapons have had their WeaponType changed to 3 (Slashing) in the BaseItems.2da in order to bring them inline with 3rd edition D&D rules (and their NWN in game descriptions): Longsword, Bastard sword, Greatsword, Katana, and Double Axe.
- Added missing armor proficiency to Gnolls.
- Made some fixes to prevent game/character hacking. Sorry, but we will never publicly discuss specific changes to the game with regards to hacking the game.
DM Client
- DMs can now still login to a server when the server is full, so that they are not prevented from performing any required administration tasks. If you go above the 64 player maximum, server performance may be adversely affected until some players leave the server (your mileage may vary).
- The game no longer displays encumbered feedback messages for DMs, since they actually cant ever be encumbered.
Custom Content
- Added a new column to the feat.2da "ReqAction" (all default NWN feats have this value set to 1 and if the column is missing from the feats.2da, such as in a hak pak, it will also default to 1). Turning this off means that the adjusted feat will no longer require an action from the object (it fires immediately, takes no action, and ignores your action queue entirely). In order to use this new functionality you need to do the following:
- Set the "ReqAction" value for the feat to 0 in the feat.2da
- Have a spellID associated with the feat in the feat.2da.
- Have a "ImpactScript" specified in the spells.2da for the spellID that you specified in the feat.2da
- The ImpactScript will then fire immediately when the feat is used.
- Walk meshes now work when placed at heights above -30 (previous lower limit was -10).
- Added an option to change/increase the selector height (when placing tiles) in the tileset "set" file. In order to use this you must add a new setting called "SelectorHeight" to the set file and specify the desired float value for this setting. The selector height will continue to default to the transition height if it has not been specified.
- Added more tile path nodes types m, n, o, and p. For custom tile set support.
Amuse Player 1.4.0
This is another great Firefox addon that is based on a small tool for playback, search, collection networks, search engines (such as Baidu Mp3, Yahoo Music) to find the MP3 music. more>> <<less
Software for Starving Students 2006.01
Software for Starving Students - Help students learn about and benefit from Open Source and free software programs more>>
It includes popular Open Source programs like Firefox and OpenOffice, intended to help students learn about and benefit from Open Source and free software programs. The SSS team put all the most commonly used free programs into one download to make it easier for students to install useful software (including fully-featured office suites, 3D graphic editors and much more) for free.
We created SSS because we love Open Source software and want to help make it more accessible to students all around the world. Although all students need good software to be successful, many have a hard time getting it on student budgets. We empathize with them because weve felt that pinch ourselves. This software enables students to achieve more for less, and that inspires us. People all over the world are using free software to make their lives better.
After all of these years of mooching off of great volunteer programmers, this is our little way of saying thanks. By providing a tool that makes their great free software more accessible to software-hungry students from Boston to Bangalore, we feel weve given a little back to the free software community and to students all over the world. We are proud and happy to do so.
WTA Death Widget 1.0
WTA Death Widget - Millions now living will die more>>
After much laziness, Im finally releasing it: the WTA Death Widget.
Based on the WTA Death Watch, it counts approximately how many people have died since the widget loaded.
Looking at it reminds you its time we started fighting back.
Nambu 1.2.0 Build 3428 Beta
Social messaging for your OS X. Streamlined. The Nambu Network is about creating the best possible social networking experience, as its development team think it needs to be done: natively more>> Social messaging for your OS X. Streamlined.
The Nambu Network is about creating the best possible social networking experience, as its development team think it needs to be done: natively.
That is, as a native application: always available, responsive, and with all of your preferred services together in one place. Nambu is social messaging streamlined.
Enhancements
Feature Additions:
- Implemented a new scrolling list that is faster, more stable and more attractive.
- Added ping.fm
- Added Identica/Laconica
- Added OneRiot Search for real-time searching.
- Added FriendFeed Search and Yahoo Search.
- Added column sizing for multi column view.
- Numerous small improvements and feature additions.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed slowness of the application over time.
- Fixed numerous spontaneous crashes.
- Fixed spinning beachball of death for many actions.
