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<page title="News">
  <section title="2002">
    <news>
      <item date="12. Jan 2002">
        some larger additions to the <a href="todo/index.html">todo</a> and a <a href="howtocontribute.html">How to contribute guide</a>
      </item>

      <item date="01. Dec 2001">
        New ToDo list added <a href="todo/">here</a>.</item>
      <item date="17. Nov 2001">
        A short overview over the class structure is
        available <a
          href="sourcecodestructure.html">here</a>.</item>
      
      <item date="5. Aug 2001">
        'pingus.cx' is down, so you currently can't reach me via
        grumbel@gmail.com, try <a
          href="mailto:grumbel@gmail.com">grumbel@gmail.com</a> instead.
      </item>

      <item date="28. July 2001">
        <b>Release 0.5.0pre2 is out</b><br /> You can download it <a
          href="download.html#devrel">here</a>.
      </item>
      
      <item date="15. July 2001">
        <b>Pingus is in need for new programmers!</b> As the last
        month have shown this project is nearly dead, I currently
        simply lack the time to do anything for Pingus, so I need
        some help. So when you are at least a bit familiar with C++
        and have some spare time to offer, please drop <a
          href="mailto:grumbel@gmail.com">me a mail</a>, so I can
        coordinate the efforts.
      </item>

      <item date="16. June 2001">
        <a href="download.html#devrel">Pingus 0.5.0pre1 is out</a><br
          /> Finally a new Pingus release is out, but be warned this
        is a development release (mostly for level designers) and is
        known to crash. When you want a playable game, this thing
        won't make you happy.
      </item>

      <item date="14. Apr 2001">
        You can find a screenshot of the multiplayer mode <a href="images/screen_0.5.0-1.jpg">here</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="12. Apr 2001">
        Multiplayer is on its way!<br /> <a
          href="mailto:grumbel@gmail.com">I</a> am currently implementing
        multiplayer support (split-screen, no network support) for
        Pingus, cooperative and battle modes will be available.
      </item>

      <item date="4. Apr 2001">
        Generated some source docs with doxygen, you can find them <a
          href="http://pingus.seul.org/doxy/index.html">here</a>
      </item>

      <item date="2. Apr 2001">
        I cleaned up my Pingus directory tree, commited a bunch of
        missing images and levels (more to come) and fixed some bugs
        in the CVS version. Looks like this thing is alife again and a
        new release might follow soon.
      </item>
      
      <item date="18. Feb 2001">
        <b>Project suspended for at least another month!</b><br />
        <p>Due to the lack of time and motivation I will not work on
          the project for at least another month, so don't expect any
          updates in that time. In the meantime you can have a look at
          some of my other projects:</p>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http: //feuerkraft.sourceforge.net">Feuerkraft</a></li>
          <li><a href="http://advent.sourceforge.net">Advent</a></li>
        </ul>
      </item>
      
      <item date="5. Nov 2000">
        <b>Pingus runs now on LinuxPPC!</b><br /> A guide on how to
        compile Pingus and some PPC Clanlib and Hermes RPMs are
        available <a
          href="http://mapage.noos.fr/guillaume.laures/linux/pingus.html">here</a>,
        but be warned this is only experimental development stuff
        and it will crash often.
      </item>

      <item date="24. Oct 2000">
        <a href="info@linuxdoos.com">Arnold van Rooij</a> wrote a
        dutch <a href="http://pingus.linuxdoos.com">level editing
          howto</a>
      </item>
      
      <item date="13. Sep 2000">
        We have now an "official" IRC channel at:<br /> Server:
        <span class="teletype">irc.openprojects.net</span><br /> Channel: <span class="teletype">#pingus</span>
      </item>

      <item date="11. Aug 2000">
        Some more photos of the LinuxTag are available <a
          href="http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/pingus/linuxtag/">here</a>
      </item>

      <item date="7. Aug 2000">
        A Windows port of Pingus 0.4.0 is available in the <a
          href="download.html#win32">download section</a>
      </item>

      <item date="5. Aug 2000">
        Added another <a href="screenshots.html">screenshot</a> of the
        new menu and a screenshot of the new weather effects
      </item>

      <item date="27. Jul 2000">
        Added a <a href="screenshots.html">screenshot</a> of the new
        menu, comments welcome.
      </item>
      
      <item date="16. Jul 2000">
        <b>Pingus Release 0.4.0</b><br /> A new
        release of Pingus is out, its main features
        are a set of fully playable levels, a lot of
        new gfx for the level designers and it comes
        as a <strong>static linked binary</strong>, <em>no</em> extra
        libraries are required - it will run
        <em>out-of-the-box</em>. Its as always
        available in the <a
          href="download.html">download section</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="16. Jul 2000">
        <b><a href="levels.html">Level building tutorial</a></b><br />
        I have written a short level building
        tutorial, which explains the basics of level
        editing.
      </item>

      <item date="8. Jul 2000">
        <a
          href="http://www.tammura.at/eyemodule/LinuxTag/eyemodule_img.html">Some
          photos from the LinuxTag are available </a>,
        thanks to Tamer for providing them.
      </item>

      <item date="4. Jul 2000">
        New mailing list: Due to some spam problems with the old
        list, the <a href="contact.html">Pingus mailing</a> has now
        moved to <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a>, in
        addition there are now also announce and users mailing lists.
      </item>
      <item date="29. Jun">
        <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2000</a><br /> As
        some might already know, Pingus will be present from the
        29.06-02.07.2000 at the LinuxTag in Stuttgart/Germany
      </item>

      <item date="19. Jun 2000">
        <a href="http://pingus.seul.org/doc++/">The doc++
          documention of the source code is now available.</a>
      </item>

      <item date="10. Jun 2000">
        The first prerelease of Pingus 0.4.0pre1 is out, have a look
        on the pingus-devel list for more instruction. <em>Warrning:
          prereleases are not meant for the average user, they are meant
          for testing and debugging, so they are not publicly
          available</em>.
      </item>

      <item date="24. Mai 2000">
        Pingus 0.4.0 still not ready<br /> Pingus has currently some
        huge bugs, which needs to be fix before the next release, this
        can take another two weeks or longer, sorry. Use the CVS
        version for the moment.
      </item>

      <item date="07. Mai 2000">
        All older Pingus releases are now available
        via <a href="ftp://pingus.seul.org/pub/pingus/">FTP</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="01. Mai 2000">       
        Added a new <a href="images/screen_0.4.0.jpg">screenshot</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="25. Apr 2000">       
        Ever wished that the Pingus could walk over your windows while
        you are reading you mail? A dream has come true, <a
          href="mailto:R.J.Hogan@reading.ac.uk">Robin Hogan</a> wrote <a
          href="http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~swrhgnrj/xpenguins/">XPenguins</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="23. Apr 2000">
        Pingus 0.4.0 not ready yet<br /> A new version of Pingus will
        probably released in the next two weeks, for the moment I
        suggest you to try the CVS version.
      </item>

      <item date="09. Mar 2000">
        Pingus 0.3.1 will not work with ClanLib
        0.4.2, a patch is available <a
          href="pingus-patch-0.3.1-0.3.1a">here</a>, have
        also a look at the <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="19. Feb 2000">
        <a href="download.html#rpm">RPMs of Pingus 0.3.1 are ready.</a>
      </item>
      
      <item date="16. Feb 2000">
        <a href="download.html">Pingus 0.3.1 is released</a>
      </item>
      
      <item date="27. Jan 2000">
        <a href="download.html#data">A new Pingus Music tarball is
          ready, it contains two new songs and some older ones are
          updated.</a>
      </item>

      <item date="13. Jan 2000">
        <a href="download.html#cvs">The CVSROOT has
          changed, if you use the CVS version you need to do a recheckout</a>
      </item>

      <item date="05. Jan 2000">
        <a href="download.html#cvs">The Pingus CVS version uses now ClanLib 0.3.1, it will <em>not</em> work with ClanLib 0.2.x.</a>
      </item>

      <item date="04. Jan 2000">
        <a href="development.html">Added a level building guide and some Gimp scripts</a>
      </item>

      <item date="29. Dec 1999">
        <a
          href="download.html#data">Released
          a Pingus music tarball</a>
      </item>

      <item date="26. Dec 1999">
        Added <a href="download.html#rpm">RPMs</a> and a new <a
          href="download.html#source">tarball</a> of Pingus 0.3.0a
      </item>

      <item date="25. Dec 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Some levelfiles are missing in Pingus 0.3.0, a patch is available</a>
      </item>

      <item date="24. Dec 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released version 0.3.0</a>
      </item>

      <item date="11. Nov 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released RPMs of Pingus
          0.2.4</a>
      </item>

      <item date="8. Nov 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released Windows version of
          0.2.4</a>
      </item>

      <item date="7. Nov 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released version 0.2.4</a>
      </item>

      <item date="10. Oct 1999">
        Uploaded new versions of the RPMs, which fix a little bug
      </item>

      <item date="06. Oct 1999">
        Binary RPMs of Pingus 0.2.3 are available
      </item>

      <item date="04. Oct 1999">
        Source RPMs of Pingus 0.2.3 are available
      </item>

      <item date="30. Sept 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released version
          0.2.3</a> and first release of the <a
          href="download.html#win32">Windows port</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="29. Sept 1999">
        
        A good <a
          href="http://news.tucows.com/ext2/99/09/articles/ext2092719991.shtml">article</a>
        about Pinugs can be found at ext2.org.
      </item>

      <item date="26. Sept 1999">
        Added some documentation to for the
        <a href="levelformat.txt">levelfile format</a>
        and <a href="gfx.html">gfx painting</a> to the
        <a href="development.html">development section</a>
      </item>

      <item date="18. Sept 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Source and binary RPMs from version 0.2.2 are available</a>
      </item>

      <item date="10. Sept 1999">
        <a href="download.html">Released version 0.2.2</a>
      </item>

      <item date="31. Aug 1999">
        Added a link to the <a href="http://dark.x.dtu.dk/~mbn/clanlib/download/snapshots/">daily cvs snapshots</a>
      </item>

      <item date="25. Aug 1999">
        Released version 0.2.1
      </item>

      <item date="22. Aug 1999">
        Updated the webpage a bit
      </item>

      <item date="13. Aug 1999">
        Released Version 0.2.0b
      </item>

      <item date="12. Aug 1999">
        Released Version 0.2.0a and a patch for 0.2.0
      </item>

      <item date="11. Aug 1999">
        Released Version 0.2.0
      </item>

      <item date="01. Jul 1999">
        Released Version 0.1.1
      </item>

      <item date="28. Jun 1999">
        Pingus was presented at the <a
          href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag</a>. <a
          href="mailto:grumbel@gmail.com">Ingo Ruhnke</a>
        created some special levels there, you can get the
        complete Special Editon in the <a
          href="download.html">download section</a>
      </item>

      <item date="22. Jun 1999">
        Released <a href="download.html#0.1.0s">version 0.1.0</a>
      </item>

      <item date="21. Jun 1999">
        A nice Pingus <a href="images/poster.jpg">poster</a> is now, available.
      </item>

      <item date="19. Jun 1999">
        Added infos about <a href="spots.html">Spot Objects</a>
      </item>

      <item date="30. May 1999">
        Released pingus version 0.0.15
      </item>

      <item date="30. May 1999">
        I have uploaded a new CVS snapshot of ClanLib, checkout the
        <a href="download.html">download section</a>.
      </item>

      <item date="13. May 1999">
        The CVS version is now ready, checkout the <a href="download.html">download section</a>.
      </item>

      
      <item date="9. May 1999">
        Released pingus version 0.0.14
      </item>

      
      <item date="7. May 1999">
        Added some description to the <a
          href="level.html">development section</a>
      </item>

      <item date="30. Apr 1999">
        Changed the layout of the webpage, to be more flexible and extensible.
      </item>

      <item date="01. Apr 1999">
        0.0.10: Hotspot, traps, exits and entrances all can now be
        read from a level file. An example level is included.
      </item>

      <item date="01. Apr 1999">
        0.0.9a: Same as the broken 0.0.9, only some bug fixes and
        clean ups
      </item>

      <item date="27. Mar 1999">
        0.0.9pre: Release of a static linked version
      </item>

      <item date="21. Mar 1999">
        0.0.8: Rewrite of Pingu class, entrance and exit are ready
      </item>

      <item date="14. Mar 1999">
        0.0.7: Compiling should now be easier, make install should
        work (for /usr/local only). Walker pingu now included.
      </item>

      <item date="07. Mar 1999">
        Release of version 0.0.6, more trouble to get it compiled
      </item>

      <item date="20. Feb 1999">
        Release of version 0.0.5, better speed (~15fps), basic
        mouse support and a nice tile map
      </item>

      <item date="31. Jan 1999">
        Fourth release, levels are now read from file and
        support for tile maps is available
      </item>

      <item date="17. Jan 1999">
        Third Release, more complete drawing routines
      </item>

      <item date="10. Jan 1999">
        Second Release, maybe compilable
      </item>

      <item date="06. Dec 1998">
        First version available and added some infos about the
        level format
      </item>

      <item date="28. Nov 1998">
        Changed the GFX-Lib from Allegro to <a href="http://www.clanlib.org">ClanLib</a>
      </item>

      <item date="07. Nov 1998">
        Started Programming <strong>Pingus</strong>
      </item>

      <item date="04. Nov 1998">
        Got the Idea to start a Lemmings clone
      </item>
    </news>
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