News - 2003

Fedora Core RPMs - December 29, 2003
RPMs for Fedora Core Linux have been released for Circus Linux!, Defendguin, Gem Drop X and the latest alpha release of Super Tux.

Super Tux 0.0.5 - December 24, 2003
A new version of Super Tux has been released, including a second level, some options, and much code cleanup!

Tux Paint 0.9.13! - December 23, 2003
Just in time for the holidays, a new release of Tux Paint has been made! A new collection of stamps is out, too, and now includes Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's stamps. Enjoy!

mpgfx released - December 13, 2003
The source to 'mpgfx' has been released, for people to look (and laugh) at. Enjoy!

New Tux Paint shirt - December 11, 2003
At the request of a visitor, we've added another Tux Paint shirt to the line-up of items you can get from CafePress.

Lab updates - December 11, 2003
We've cleaned up a few straggling project pages, info. pages and download links, and placed in the New Breed Software Lab.

Super Tux - December 9, 2003
A developer's mailing list has been created for the 'Super Tux' project. A number of code updates have been incorporated into the CVS repository at SourceForge, as well!

Tux Paint for Fedora Core - November 15, 2003
Tux Paint 0.9.12 is now available as an RPM package for the new Fedora distribution.

Donate via PayPal.com - November 11, 2003
Due to popular demand, we've added a PayPal donation link, and information on donating via check or money order. Thanks for your interest and your donations!

Tux Paint hands-on demo photos - October 26, 2003
The Linux Users' Group of Davis, California, helped volunteer to demonstrate Tux Paint to kids and parents at the Davis Food Co-Op, and give out CDROMs.

Circus Linux! for MorphOS - October 19, 2003
Circus Linux! has been ported to MorphOS.

Tux Paint in Computeractive magazine - October 18, 2003
Tux Paint was reviewed by Computeractive on Oct. 14th.

Madbomber for MorphOS - October 17, 2003
Mad Bomber has been ported to MorphOS.

Vintage Show Photos - October 13, 2003
Bill Kendrick of NBS showed off the Atari 8-bit computer line at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, CA.

QNX ports! - September 29, 2003
BugSquish, Circus Linux!, Defendguin and Mad Bomber have been ported to QNX and are available as '.qpr' packages for the x86 platform.

Tux Paint font RPMs - September 23, 2003
The add-on fonts for Tux Paint are now also available as RedHat Linux RPM packages.

Brick Out for Symbian - September 10, 2003
We also just found out that Brick Out is also available for Symbian OS!

Gem Drop X for Symbian - September 10, 2003
We just discovered that our game Gem Drop X has been ported to Symbian OS (used on some 'smart' cellphones)!

Vectoroids - September 9, 2003
A new build of Vectoroids has been released for Windows. The previous version didn't included library DLLs, which needed to be found and downloaded separately.

3D Pong for OS X - September 7, 2003
We discovered that our 3D Pong game for X-Window is available for Macintoshes running Mac OS X and the Fink project.

New Bug Squish for OS X - September 2, 2003
A new build of Bug Squish for Mac OS X has been made, which should be easier to open and run.

Gem Drop cartridge produced - August 31, 2003
A cartridge version of our Atari 8-bit game 'Gem Drop' has been created. Only two have been made; one for the fellow who made it, and an extra copy for us. It proves it can be done, though, so more may be on the way, if there's demand!

Bug Squish in 'Linux For You' - August 20, 2003
Bug Squish has been reviewed in the August issue of the Indian magazine Linux For You.

Tux Paint 0.9.12 Released - August 19, 2003
Tux Paint has a new set of fonts, translations in Walloon, Russian and Malay, some compilation updates, and a number of bug-fixes. Available as source, RPM packages for Red Hat 6.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0, for Slackware and Debian Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Hebrew font for Tux Paint - August 5, 2003
A completely free TrueType Font has been created (converted from an existing Type1 font) for use in Tux Paint in Hebrew mode!

Meet Bill Kendrick! - July 30, 2003
Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software's lead developer, will be volunteering at this year's LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco next week -- August 5th thru 7th. Bill will be in the Linux Users' Group of Davis booth in the LWE '.org Pavillion'...

Circus Linux! for Dreamcast and GP32 - July 20, 2003
Circus Linux! has been released for the Sega Dreamcast video game console, and Game Park 'GP32' handheld game system!

Tux Paint 0.9.11 for BeOS - July 12, 2003
Tux Paint 0.9.11 is now available for BeOS users running on Intel systems.

RPM Updates - June 20, 2003
Robert Scheck has created updated packages of our games Circus Linux!, Defendguin, Gem Drop X and Super Tux for RedHat Linux 9.0.

Tux Paint 0.9.11 - June 17, 2003
Just over a year after the Tux Paint project began, and four months after the last major release, a new version of Tux Paint is now available! Available as source tarball, RedHat Linux RPMs, Windows installer and ZIPfile, and Mac OS X StuffIT archive.

Defendguin for Dreamcast - June 16, 2003
Defendguin has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast! See it here!

Bug Squish 0.0.6 for Windows - June 15, 2003
The latest release of Bug Squish is also now available for Windows!

Gem Drop X 0.9 for Windows - June 15, 2003
The latest release of Gem Drop X is now available for Windows!

Vectoroids for Dreamcast - June 5, 2003
Vectoroids has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast game console! See it here.

Madbomber 0.2.5 for Windows and Slackware - May 31, 2003
The latest version of Mad Bomber is available for Windows (upgrading from a much older version), and has also been released for Slackware Linux.

SuperTux for Dreamcast - May 26, 2003
SuperTux has been ported to Linux running on the Sega Dreamcast game console. See it here.

Vectoroids - Zaurus Free Software of the Month - April 11, 2003
Vectoroids is Sharp's Zaurus Newsletter's Free Software of the Month!

Tux Paint @ MaxNexus: Photos - March 24, 2003
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, spoke at a large Macintosh user group in Sacramento, 'MaxNexus.' Photos from the talk are available at their website.

Announcing Tux Print - March 22, 2003
Tux Print has been announced! It's going to be a simple 'publishing' tool for kids to compose and print greeting cards, banners, posters, newsletters, and probably more. Wish us luck!

Mad Bomber 0.2.5 - March 16, 2003
Mad Bomber has been updated with some stereo effects for splashes and explosions.

Tux Paint Review at CFS - March 11, 2003
Tux Paint received a 5-out-of-5 rating, and a great review over at Completely FREE Software. (You can also see it on our reviews page.

Tux Paint 0.9.10 for Mac OS X - March 9, 2003
The latest version of Tux Paint, 0.9.10, is now also available for Mac OS X users! Get it here.

Programmer for Hire! - March 3, 2003
Due to more layoffs where I worked, I recently lost my job. Therefore, I'm actively looking for a full-time job doing game programming or web development. If you know someone who's hiring, please point them to my résumés!

Mad Bomber at About.com - February 27, 2003
The maintainer of the Computer Action Games section of About.com is creating an index of free games. He's already added our game Mad Bomber to the index (here), and plans to add more!

LinuxWorld Magazine Reviews - February 25, 2003
LinuxWorld magazine in Japan included Entombed! and Gem Drop X on the CD for their April 2003 issue, along with brief reviews and screenshots.

Tux Paint updates - February 22, 2003
Greek and Portuguese translations. Windows printing updates. Stamp translation updates. Tux Paint is also now available via CVS!

Tux Math update coming soon - February 21, 2003
An options screen is being developed. Developers with CVS can access it now. A new release will (finally!) be on its way within a week for general testing.

Linux Format Reviews Tux Paint - February 16, 2003
The British magazine Linux Format included a review of Tux Paint in their January 2003 issue, along with a copy of it in one of the included CDROMs.

Zaurus software in Linux Format - February 16, 2003
Linux Format included the Zaurus versions of our games Vectoroids, Mad Bomber, Bug Squish, as well as our Unofficial Zaurus FAQ, in the CDROMs and DVD for their January 2003 issue.

Cat5Walk Announced - February 12, 2003
Cat5Walk is going to be a new puzzle game for the Atari 8-bit computer system!

Tux Paint demo in Sacramento - February 10, 2003
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, will be demonstrating it, as well as talking about Open Source software in general, at the March 18th meeting of Mac Nexus, in Sacramento.

Tux4Kids Review - February 4, 2003
Robin 'Roblimo' Miller reviews the Knoppix-based CD of kids software (including our Tux Paint and TuxMath projects) being put together by Tux4Kids and the Open Source Education Foundation.

Tux Paint 0.9.9 - February 1, 2003
Runtime 800x600 option, Slovak translation, locale font bugfix, HTML-style escape sequence support in stamp description translations, and more!

Tux Paint updates - January 28, 2003
0.9.8 supports UTF-8 encoding in stamp description translations. Thanks to this, the stamps package was also updated, with translations into Finnish and Japanese! Windows, Mac OSX and Slackware packages have been updated.

Tux Paint 0.9.7 - January 27, 2003
Now translated to Japanese! RPM, Slackware, BeOS and Windows packages updated.

Tux Paint package updates - January 26, 2003
Tux Paint is now available as Slackware Linux packages (version 0.9.4), and the RPM package and BeOS version have been updated to the latest version (0.9.6).

Tux Paint 0.9.6 - January 22, 2003
Experimental support for 800x600 resolution; bug fixes; --savedir option for changing saved-files location. Available as source, and for Windows.

Tux Paint for BeOS! - January 19, 2003
Tux Paint 0.9.5 has been built for BeOS!

Happypenguin Awards - Vote Now! - January 15, 2003
The Linux Game Tome is accepting votes in their Happypenguin Awards. Our Tux Paint, Vectoroids and Super Tux titles are among the possible choices in some categories. Go vote!

Tux Paint 0.9.5 - January 13, 2003
Greek, Romanian and Polish translations! French update. Makefile cleanup.

Tux Paint 0.9.4 available as RPM - January 13, 2003
The latest release of Tux Paint and stamps are now available as RPM packages!

Tux Paint speaks Indonesian - January 8, 2003
A number of small feature changes and updates, and an Indonesian translation are part of the 0.9.4 release!

Tux Paint 0.9.3 for Windows - January 7, 2003
Tux Paint 0.9.3 (released yesterday) is now available for Windows.

Super Tux 0.0.4 for BeOS - January 6, 2003
The latest (still unfinished) release of SuperTux is now available for BeOS.

Tux Paint speaks Chinese - January 6, 2003
The latest release of Tux Paint includes a fix for printing in Windows, updated Spanish documentation, and support for Chinese (Simplified)!