The Hyperlogos

After a couple hours of searching I finally found a tool capable of unpacking umod files on Linux today. I can't get umodpack to build so I gave up and downloaded a Windows tool written in Delphi and ran it in Wine, which works great. Looks like someone boned something somewhere and broke backwards compatibility that affects my ability to build umodpack, it happens while Perl tries to generate documentation and a quick search suggests that it's an endemic problem. Thanks, whoever you are! Douche. Download Unreal Tournament UMOD Extractor to successfully unpack umod files on Windows or Linux+Wine.

Well, MekTek is back up, and the diligent programmer-types have been working to address issues, and information has come out on how to download the free release of Mechwarrior4: Mercenaries. Here's some hints.

SimCity is one of the most popular and well-known video games of all time. This game was ported to Unix in the 1990s and the source code has since been released under the GPL version 3. Micropolis is the resulting program (as well as the original working title of the game.) Making this game work correctly is easy enough once you know the recipe.

Once upon a time in the darker days of the web when tables were the high-tech new hotness of HTML, I used to run a website that consisted mainly of a collection of drinking games. I actually started with it on www.circus.com, a now-defunct website that represented a geek house in Santa Cruz, California. This was a 486 machine on a 28.8kbps SLIP line, which for you non-geeks out there means it was very slow. In spite of that, I managed to build the largest drinking games site on the web.

Mau is a card game for two or more people played with one or more decks of regular playing cards. It is similar to Crazy Eights, and even more like Uno.