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QSound iQ is an 3D surround plugin for both XMMS developed by Spatializer Labs
and 4Front Technologies.

IQ for Linux utilizes QSounds 3D audio technology to stretch the sound outside the physical location of the speakers - creating an immersive virtual surround sound field.

Users will be able to enhance mono and low bit-rate MP3s that are streamed over the Internet. Laptop users will also be able to get highly enhanced stereo sound with iQ for Linux.

Soul Ride is the most challenging and realistic snowboarding game to come to Linux.

No visibility limits, real-world terrain, and physics-based gameplay. Find uncharted backcountry descents on extreme terrain in the California Sierras and Tuckerman Ravine in New Hampshire.

Heli-drop yourself onto precarious summits, and test your ability to find a line to the base. Play back the thrills and spills using the virtual VCR.

Soul Ride comes in a DVD-style case on a single CD-Rom

Kachinko is a wonderful game created in the style of traditional Pachinko machines that features an onslaught of colored balls and only a few places to catch them. The name of the game is strategy and quick wits. Kachinko starts simply enough, requiring you to eliminate sets of three like-colored balls at a time. The challenge is significantly increased when youre forced to put together longer chains and set up massive combos in order to get a score worthy of completing a level.
Power-ups such as Eliminators, Stackwipers, Color-Changers, and others keep the gameplay fresh and exciting as you work your way through the increasingly formidable levels. Some power-ups (like the Eliminator and the Power Ball) can be used as offensive weapons to keep your game alive and help you score major points. Others (like the Double Drop and the Ball Storm) are used by the computer as defensive maneuvers, and will wreak havoc unless you disable them. Track your own scores and those of other Kachinko masters around the world with the Online Leaders Board.
Dont drop the ball, download Kachinko today!
Main features:
- Four unique Kachinko Machines
- Skill levels ranging from Relaxing to Insane
- Unique and fun gameplay combining a match 3 game with Pachinko
- A variety of unlockable power-ups
- Online and in-game rankings with players around the world

Majesty for Linux contains both the full Majesty game, and the expansion pack, The Northern Expansion.

Majesty is a unique sim putting you in the crushed velvet hotseat of your own kingdom. With an epic quest before you, you make the decisions of where to build your settlement`s guilds and temples. Each one has a mind of its own and must be enticed to meet your goals, via rewards you offer and spells you cast.

Meanwhile you must make sure that your treasury stays flush with cash to support these and other outlays necessary to maintain a thriving medieval town. The fact that you are being barraged by attacks from mythical beasts and fantastic creatures doesn`t make your job any easier.

Majesty runs on x86 PC and Apple PPC hardware running Linux.

Cold War follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story, he has been stripped of all possessions, beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGBs political prison.
Using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets, he must now evade or overcome elite Soviet forces and defeat the conspiracy before he is sent to a Siberian prison camp or killed.
Cold War is an RTS game for Linux and Windows.
Razor Kane, an Independent Journalist and former CIA Agent, takes on the KGB in the former USSR at the height of the Cold War.
Razor Kane is a journalist with an edge, or three. Having been kicked out of the CIA for his extracurricular activities, Razor is now writing articles about his exploits for all the readers back home. Razor Kane is as much a newsman as Indiana Jones is an archeologist. Part investigative journalist, thrill seeker and adrenaline junky, Razor always ends up in the middle of the action, in whatever remote country he may find himself, which is usually one where the alcohol flows and exotic, friendly woman are plenty.
This time Razor penetrates the deepest depths of the Former USSR to hunt down a group of communist hardliners who are plotting to threaten world peace. Razor will fight and match his wits against the enemy in environments like Chernobyl, Mausoleum and Kremlin, some of the most well-known and symbolic places of the former Communist rule. This is the world behind the Iron Curtain, a world of a totalitarian Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
Razor has to draw upon all his skills and experience for this challenge. Stealth plays a leading role: Razor has to move quietly and deliberately; slip behind enemies unnoticed; duck for cover behind objects; and hide in the shadows. He can disable alarms, pick locks or confound security cameras. When in a tight spot, he is good with a gun, but usually outfoxing the enemy is the best way to succeed.
Venture Inside the Former USSR
Cold War achieves a first in gaming history, by transporting players inside a realistic depiction of some of the most well known places of the Former USSR, a place which has captured the imagination of the general public in books and films for generations, but has only been lightly covered in electronic games. This is not a highly stylized and fictional USSR, but the real thing. Who better to develop this environment, than a talented team of developers living in Eastern Europe.
Realistic Gameplay - Pierce the Iron Curtain
Outnumbered and on their turf, tactics and stealth are required for pulling off this mission. Just blasting away, Razor may win the battle but will definitely lose the war. Realistic play is required to pierce these almost impenetrable beacons of the Former USSR.
Master the Interactive Environment
Cold War provides a highly interactive environment, where clues to unraveling this conspiracy are found logically inside the game, not in disruptive pop-ups and pictures.
Use the highly interactive environment: If you cant slip past security cameras, disable them; pick a lock to access a safer route; enemy approaching through an elevator? - then shut it down.
Encounter Numerous Types of Enemies
Full of different types of enemies with unique AI, a large range of tactics and strategies are required: run away from a slow soldier; confuse a dog with pepper; or eliminate a soldier wearing night-vision goggles with a flash grenade. By observing the enemy and understanding their behavior, discover new strategies for outfoxing them.
Weapons & equipment
Full of equipment to allow a variety of problems to be solved using a number of methods: At night, use night vision goggles; for long distances, use binoculars; a heart beat sensor detects enemies behind walls; a uni-direction microphone can be used to overhead enemy plans.
Sound like a typical feature set of a typical game? - Well, Razor is anything but typical! And his unconventional approach is extremely frustrating for, well, the rather conventional enemy. He is able to cleverly use every day items to create superb tactical and lethal gadgets. For example, an alarm-clock and paint thinner, on their own, are rather harmless, but by combining the two, a dangerous trap can be created which will not only lure the enemy to the bomb, but blow them away in a fiery mess.
Weapons must be used sensibly though, because ammunition supplies are not infinite and the player is usually outnumbered. And of course, more overt use of weaponry will increase the response by the enemy - who will swarm and fire more, than if silent but deadly methods are used.
Technology & Graphics
Superb graphics masterfully depict the rich environment of the communist USSR during the Cold War, using N-Djinni proprietary game engine. Due to the unique mix of the technologies designed especially for this project, we intend to achieve a graphically stunning game even on average hardware configurations.
Main features:
- Stunning locales from mid-1980s U.S.S.R: Chernobyl, the Mausoleum and the KGBs notorious Ljubljanka prison
- Strong esponage/stealth style with realistic AI enemies and missions based on real world events
- In-game elements are combined to create weapons and traps
- Innovative gadgets including an X-Ray camera
Gameplay:
Players match wits and strength against the powerful Russian enemy using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets to eliminate opponents.

Spatializer StreamFX is an 3D surround plugin for both XMMS developed by Spatializer Labs and 4Front Technologies.

XMMS users can now experience the same Spatializer StreamFX enhancements available for WinAmp and provides a very compelling audio package for the growing Internet Appliance market.

StreamFX provides rich 3D audio, enhanced bass support and support for headphone/speaker audio adjustment, adding rich, immersive audio to the already powerful XMMS player.

Installation:

1. Read LICENSE file

2. Run xminstall.sh

3. Run XMMS

Click on the Effects/General Plugin tab folder, click on the Effects selector button and you should see the Spatializer StreamFX plugin as one of the options If you dont see StreamFX as one of the options then please check your XMMS installation and locate the correct directory where your XMMS plugins are stored. You may also need to upgrade to the latest version of XMMS. High-light the option and click on the Enable Plugin button on the Effects Plugin panel.

Click the Configure button and this will bring up the StreamFX control panel. You can now start playing your mp3, wav, mod file and start changing various values on the StreamFX control panel

Usage:

3D-Stereo

Space: controls the amount of 3D-stereo sound
Center: controls the amount of monaural (center) sound

V.i.B.E.

Bass: controls the amount of conventional bass-boost
Virt. Bass: controls the amount of virtual bass-boost
Color: controls the timbre of the virtual bass

Headphones (only used when listening over headphones)
Angle: adjusts the position of "virtual loudspeakers". Slider full left is both directly in front (mono); middle is about +/-45 degrees, full right is about +/-90 degrees.

Knights and Merchants is an RTS game similar to Settlers.

After many battles, the kingdom has been divided into many small feuding principalities and earldoms. The king`s troops have been pushed back into one last royal province, and the rulers of the other provinces wage terrible, destructive wars against one another.

The whole land has fallen into a state of chaos and now the final royal province is under siege by the armies of the rebel lords.

Knights and Merchants recreates a fictitious kingdom in the era of the Middle Ages. All game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, of around 1200 A.D. You the player takes on the role of a captain in the kings army. A conspiracy against the king catapults you into a situation where you find yourself responsible for the defense of the last royal province. Earn Royal favour by taking back the renegade provinces and crushing the rebellious lords!