A look at the colorful history of two Free Software implementations to get classic abandonware adventure games running across all software platforms, especially free ones such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Also includes links to FOSS source code to a dev IDE for the abandoned SCI platform.

The ScummVM developers have agreed a settlement with Atari over GPL violations in three Nintendo Wii games developed by an Atari subcontractor.

Trauma is a point-and-click adventure game where the game world is a huge collection of photos which create the world, the player can zoom in (thus revealing new closer photos and details) or out, move to different directions and even draw symbols which do stuff.

Nokia has released Version 4.6 of its Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. Qt 4.6 includes support for the Symbian platform for the first time, and adds Windows 7, Apple Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and the upcoming Maemo 6 to the list of Qt-supported platforms.

The idea that Linux users would want to play old MS-DOS games might seem strange to some, whats even stranger for me is the fact that this task needs similar software to do exactly the same thing under the latest Windows versions.

CodeWeavers has released CrossOver Games 10.1.0 for Linux and Mac. This release fixes many known issues with supported games and adds Rift to the list of games that now run with CrossOver Games. This release has also seen allot of fixes to cross tie support, RAR files are now fully supported.

New release of OpenBSD -- free multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, is here, containig huge quantity of additions, fixes, hardware support and changes.

Nokia released version 4.6.3 of the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. Qt 4.6.3 brings bugfixes and optimizations made based on feedback received from Qt users since the release of Qt 4.6.2. Also released is an updated version of the Qt Visual Studio Add-in.

TeX Live 2009 is out! It is popular collection of huge quantity of different TeX packages all-in-one, created in 1996 and based on teTeX. Full DVD-image takes over 1.2 GB and includes fully working Live-environment for many operating systems, CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) copy and many documentation.