Nvidia releases an open-source Vulkan C++ API, it's now on github
Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.
Category: Open Source
The open source project 'xoreos' released version 0.0.4 'Chodo'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Jason Ekstrand from Intel speaks about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016
Jason Ekstrand, a developer hired by Intel has done a presentation about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016. The slides are interesting, but not too in-depth to overwhelm you.
Superpowers, a HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games now open source
This is pretty awesome news, a very promising HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games has become open source!
Disassembling NWScript bytecode with the open source project 'xoreos'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Mesa 11.1.1 available, has patches for GRID Autosport
Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.1 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.1 has many small changes including 38 bugfixes.
The open source app for the Itch games store has a major update
Ah goodie, it's update day for the Itch app, this is becoming one of my favourite days. I love the effort put into it, and this release is no different with it now translated to 30+ languages.
Feel like fragging? You can do that in your browser with QuakeJS
Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.
FNA, the open source reimplementation of Microsoft's XNA first official release
I'm a big fan of FNA, as the quality of the ports made with Ethan Lee's project are really quite awesome. Ethan announced recently that FNA has now had its first official release.
OpenRA Christmas 2015 Release (20151224)
The OpenRA development team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and they are proud to announce the Christmas 2015 release of OpenRA.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.0 Is Now Available
After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.
GOL Cast: Wandering Around Morrowind in OpenMW
You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!
Wine 1.8 was finally released
Today a new stable Wine 1.8 version was released. After a 17 months of hard work and nearly 13,000 individual commits it's here. And it brings lots of new shiny features in its sack(because it's December, pick your holiday of choice).
openage, an open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine
These are the types of projects I can really get behind. Much like CosixTH for Theme Hospital, openage is aiming to be a full open source engine for Age of Empires II.
AMD announce 'GPUOpen', open source tools like Nvidia's GameWorks
AMD are stepping up their open source game again, as they have announced GPUOpen to rival Nvidia's GameWorks.
The Itch store now has an open source and multiplatform store application
The games store Itch has released the first proper public version of their own store client like Steam and GOG Galaxy, but simply named "Itch". It's open source too, so that's cool.
Fourth release candidate of Wine 1.8 is out
Wine development team released today the fourth release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8
Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. 26 bugs were fixed.
Third release candidate of Wine version 1.8 is out
Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8
Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.
OpenMW 0.37 released, now with the new OSG renderer
It seems to be the season for new versions of excellent open source gaming projects. OpenMW, the open source recreation of the Morrowind engine, has a new version which brings important rendering updates.
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