Free force software for linux

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force is a modification to the icculus.org maintained quake3 engine
to make it possible to run EliteForce holomatch. This means: you can *not* play single player missions with this project.
This engine has full compatibility for the newer _and_ the original EliteForce protocol, clients using the original engine can use newer servers, and clients using my engine can use old servers, too.

Now, the next few paragraphs are just some random blabla about the advantages of this release, but if you want to you can just skip it and go right to the installation instructions.

What was the motivation for me doing this project?

It actually started pretty small.. The Quake3 source has been released more than half a year ago and I got the crazy idea to try the quake3 engine with EliteForce on my trusted Gentoo Linux.

When I started the program first the screen went black and nothing happened... nearly nothing. I heard some sounds and when I moved the cursor I heard random click-clicks from the mouse going over some menu buttons. This meant this stuff is not completely incompatible after all, it didnt crash right away though that was exactly what I expected it to do. I digged in Ravens multiplayer source that they released (only the virtual machine stuff, to allow for building modifications) and compared it to quake3s virtual machines and realized that there was a small
incompatibility in one of the data structures used to pass information between engine and virtual machine. It was nothing big and after fixing this the menu worked!

There were some quirks here or there, but most of the menu really worked. So it got me thinking: If I fix all these incompatibilities.. maybe I can finally play my beloved multiplayer game Ive been clinging to for over 5 years on my favorite OS natively.. and IPv6 support for EliteForce would be pretty cool too...

So a crazy idea was turned into a serious project. I had to add support for Ravens models, playing mp3s, EliteForces own network protocol. My goal was to make this release as close to the original as possible. Most of the time, I only could guess what names and functions would mean to the engine or I had to compare the original game and then try to make it work the same way in my engine.

The quake3 game relies heavily on floating point operations. Unfortunately, the original EliteForce engine does non-ISO compliant rounding of floating point numbers to integers in the VMs. The game VM uses that flaw which will result in higher jumping for certain com_maxfps settings. As with the new engine there are many platforms that can be supported, there are probably many different ways one has to take to revert the rounding to the old behaviour. This is nearly impossible to do, so I had to use a different approach: build new VMs.

Americas Army is one of the five most popular action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror.
Americas Army: Special Forces is the follow-up to Americas Army: Operations, which was released on July 4, 2002.
In Americas Army: Special Forces, players attempt to earn Green Beret status by completing individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assignment and Selection (SFAS) process.
Players who complete the SFAS process have the opportunity to take on elite Special Forces roles and are qualified to play in multiplayer missions with units ranging from the elite 82d Airborne Division to the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Includes the complete game Americas Army: Operations.
Main features:
- Authentic U.S. Army experience Realistic depiction of the values, units, equipment and career opportunities that make the Army the worlds premier land force continually updated to incorporate new occupations, units, technologies and adventures.
- Realistic roles Including Weapons Specialist (18B), Intelligence (18F), Engineer (18C), Communications (18E) and Combat Medic (18D).
- Challenging Green Beret training Complete training missions drawn from the SFAS process at Fort Bragg. Successfully complete SFAS and advance to Special Forces Qualification Course (Q-Course) missions to explore new Special Forces roles.
- Intense Special Forces action Intense Special Forces action Experience multiplayer missions in simulated combat environments. Take part in missions that span the capabilities of a Special Forces detachment, including unconventional warfare, direct action, surveillance and reconnaissance and Combat Search and Rescue.
- Detailed Special Forces equipment and military hardware Building on the equipment available in Americas Army: Operations, Americas Army: Special Forces adds the M4 Carbine featuring the Picatinny rail mod system for attaching laser-aiming devices and sighting systems; the MP5SD6 Remington 870 shotgun for forced entry; the AT4, a shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket and the BDM, a shoulder-fired bunker demolition munition.
- Accurate Soldier behavior Players are bound by the laws of land warfare, Army values (honor, duty and integrity) and realistic rules of engagement as they navigate challenges in teamwork-based multiplayer force vs. force operations. Mission accomplishment standings are evaluated based on team effort and adherence to a set of values and norms of conduct.

GRacer is a 3D motor sports simulator. Its state of the art physical simulation engine creates realistic behavior including drift, wheel spin, and even accel turn.
Main features:
5 vehicles
- Formula (FR)
- CART (FR)
- HONDA S2000 (FR)
- MITSUBISHI Lancer RS Evolution VI (4WD)
- Mini (FR)
1 course
- Sample Course 1
(current release also contains some other courses. but these courses are still very rough)
multi-level crossing and loop-the-loop course. (not yet fully functional)
linux joystick driver (but setting for microsoft sidewinder force feedback wheel is hard-coded).
sound (by SL library included in PLIB)
exhaust
skirl
- game is playable, and finished when you run specified lap.
- new GRacer memories your high scores. but you can not share high scores with your friends.

Kickoff for Suse 10.1 contains some packages needed to run kickoff in Suse 10.1. I modified the spec file from package kdebase3 included in openSUSE 10.2 to force the compilation of Kickoff in Suse 10.1.

You must have installed KDE 3.5.5 and beagle in order to install and run it.

Use it at your own risk, I am not responsible of any damage that could cause if you install them.

The packages provided are: kdebase3, kdebase3-beagle and liblazy.

RWSecure application parses the /var/log/secure file for invalid usernames or failed passwords to help protect against brute force and similar attacks.
If there are more than three invalid or failed attempts by one IP, it will add that IP to your /etc/hosts.deny file.
Put this file in any directory of your choice and use the cron to run this program every
few minutes, hours, or days... adding this entry to your crontab will have it run every 5 minutes:
*/5 * * * * root /yourdirectory/rwsecure
This is just an example of a way to run it without user intervention.
Suggest you stop logging info level messages from auth, or log them in a seperate file, if you run this program every few minutes as misc cron messages can start to fill your logs.
Program will append to /etc/hosts.deny (however, this file can be changed by changing the variable in rwsecure, just vi rwsecure and make change the HostsDenypath to whatever you want)
Sample program output:
ALL: 82.140.81.26 # Added by rwsecure on Sep 17 18:18:01 2005
ALL: 67.15.20.58 # Added by rwsecure on Sep 18 04:42:01 2005
ALL: 211.78.142.116 # Added by rwsecure on Sep 18 06:22:01 2005
ALL: 130.215.226.185 # Added by rwsecure on Sep 19 04:26:01 2005
ALL: 70.85.221.46 # Added by rwsecure on Sep 21 09:26:01 2005
Enhancements:
- Improved handling of IPv6 and illegal users.

PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. PircBot has many features like an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC resuming support, ident support, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and this page contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
PircBot allows you to perform a variety of fun tasks on IRC, but it is also used for more serious applications by the US Navy, the US Air Force, the CIA (unconfirmed), several national defence agencies, and inside the Azureus bittorrent client. But dont let that put you off - its still easy to use!
Enhancements:
- This release adds a new method to make it easy to identify with NickServ.
- This is useful on networks such as Freenode where a client must identify itself before it is able to send private messages.