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Hack to disable GL_NV_vertex_program for Neverwinter Nights

A new hack is being hosted here to help out those who have had trouble running Neverwinter Nights on Linux. This code fixes a problem affecting Neverwinter Nights by Bioware.

The application tries to use the OpenGL GL_NV_vertex_program extension which doesn't work under the latest versions of Mesa. (Dec 2008) This hack disables said extension. It also stops cloaks from being invisible.

For more information on this, see the Bioware Forum entry.

• You can find the source code for this here: no_nvvp.c
• You can also get a pre-built shared library binary here: no_nvvp.so

Looking for Volunteers for a Project!

A new project is being started by some of the ##linux-coders regulars. This will be a project to create a musical notation editor targetted primarily at guitar. It will enable one to:

• Create nice looking guitar tablature.
• Parse existing ascii art tablature and import it so that it will be displayed as nice looking tablature.
• Output the tablature produced in multiple formats.
• Much more when it's finished!

If we can get volunteers to help, we may have it do some really cool things, like interpret what note is being played on a guitar, to enable an extremely easy way to enter tablature.

The inspiration for this project is the lack of any free software to do this task, on any platform. The goal is to make this a nice editor, following the Unix philosophy of each tool doing one task, and doing it well. It will be a cross platform application.

If you would like to help, contact solid_liq or slimjimflim in the ##linux-coders channel on irc.freenode.net.

Code Repository Created!

A new repository where people can get not just code snippets. The code site contains a publicly accessible Subversion server where people may browse through contributed scripts and scripting examples. There are currently scripts written in BASH, Perl and Python, with more to come in PHP, Ruby, Java and more! Come check it out, you just might find a valuable utility, or something which does something you've been wanting to do from a script, but haven't yet figured out how to do!

Code Repository

A repository where people can get not just code snippets. The code site contains scripts written in BASH, Perl and Python, with more to come in PHP, Ruby, Java and more!