The Cats of BestNews

Most of these are downloadables.

• [Clicky] The square root of cheese. Silliness in a box.
• [Clicky] Sniping in tfc - my guide.
• [Clicky] Atomica. A flash game that is somewhat addictive.
• [Clicky] Get multiple irc networks into one client. Saving a tiny amount of effort each time you reconnect.
• [Clicky] World War Two in sixty seconds. Still hilarious.
• [Clicky] You'd be surprised how few people read these - the rules for the ladders.
• [Clicky] Motopets. Vroom.
• [Clicky] Quake3 pro-mode. It's caled quake1 people...
• [Clicky] More windows startup screen fun.
• [Clicky] Wow, shiny piccies.
• [Clicky] Valley speak is so done before. Pig latin is non-grata now. But this - pikaualize your site.
• [Clicky] Spiderwebsoftware - they make old-style CRPGs. Avernum, homelands and geneforge are all excellent - and blade (though even older) has an editor...
• [Clicky] A bunch of useful little utilities. Wkkill is the same as butterknife.exe and required dwonloading.
• [Clicky] Now this is amusing - ATITD is RELYING upon destructive players, in order to drive the plot. But from what I've been hearing about the game, they don't have any such players, since the rest of the game is purely oriented around tradeskill dullness.
• [Clicky] In-passing. Another quotes archive. I forgot to keep reading this one, for some reason.
• [Clicky] Googles language filters - old link but still good.
• [Clicky] This is my "simple text editor" of choice. Notepad Plus.
• [Clicky] {Original link text} Bambi vs Godzilla
• [Clicky] Let's have some game downloads - flightsim
• [Clicky] Tyrian
• [Clicky] Big pile 'o DOS games.
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• [Clicky] Megawinter nights. The hype is better than the game, so take these as wallpaper.
• [Clicky] I always forget which timezone is which - so this may be useful.
• [Clicky] 49 and 56 are especially good. Cartoon network flash animations. Hong Kong fooey GT.
• [Clicky] "Cheating in multiplayer games makes baby jesus want to frag you"
• [Clicky] Here, this might be good for MC. Basic object orientation tutorial.
• [Clicky] Bonsai kitten - old, but as funny as the day it was done.
• [Clicky] A whole bunch of game demos. Surely one of them will be playable?
• [Clicky] It aint gutenberg, but they have a good heart and an honor harrington book.
• [Clicky] {This was pre Sep11} A reasonably well worded extrapolation of: "The president and vice-president and indeed, most americans, are bloodthristy ignoramouses"
• [Clicky] Why are you all using IE still?
• [Clicky] Hmm - looks like only PART of gamasutra is registration required. Very odd. Anyway, terrain based AI is hard but interesting.
• [Clicky] Downloadable verion of "gems3d" - which is, I think, another annoying flash game of addiction. Unless I got the wrong link.
• [Clicky] The laziest men on mars. (Music by the people who brought you both the 'The terrible secret of space' and 'All your Base')
• [Clicky] Ye gods. I didn't realise how many many dead links I have. I just wrote a column about being unable to find content - but I didn't realise quite how bad link rot had gotten. Some of my old catlinks have redirects, some I can find using google - most have just vanished into the ether.
• [Clicky] Another nice simple arcade gamey thing
• [Clicky] A bunch more useful utilities - including links to monitor refresh rate tweakers, image and audio editors, antivirus things and a few programming tools.
• [Clicky] Ninjai. The littlest ninja. (Flash movie. Very good)
• [Clicky] Yet another directory of utilities you might need
• [Clicky] Broken saints. Animated comic flash - incredibly good.
• [Clicky] Tammi-GOTHI
• [Clicky] A handy sorta-database sorta-notepad thingy.
• [Clicky] Some of you still might not have played uplink (it's not worth buying the full version - you get very little more gameplay)
• [Clicky] Desktop kitten
• [Clicky] Here's part one of this page
• [Clicky] How to build your evil lair - cheap!
• [Clicky] Telnet starwars
• [Clicky] nyo!
• [Clicky] Please use these ratings if you review games for catnews
• [Clicky] Got bandwidth to burn? Myth3
• [Clicky] Chuck juones memorial flash
• [Clicky] The GIMP. Photoshop clone for windows for free.
• [Clicky] Another bunch of little apps - including an "adventure" clone.
• [Clicky] Automatic filename completion for DOS windows. Removing the one remaining advantage of win2k
• [Clicky] Carrier command. An ancient but compelling game.
• [Clicky] Got a movie sent to you but don't know why it won't play? You don't need to know what a codec is, you just need to have lots of them.
• [Clicky] Mod support - bugtracker, mailing lists - that sort of thing. Could be handy.
• [Clicky] More books online. PRetty bad fantas, but readable.
• [Clicky] Pocket tanks (not to be confused with any other tank game) - basically gorilla with more graphics.
• [Clicky] Wonder what that open port is for?
• [Clicky] Handy for speeding up your fileserver and not having to install umpteen billion CD drives. Deamon tools makes an iso look just like a physical drive.
• [Clicky] Halflife model viewer. I link this periodically.
• [Clicky] A fun cyberspace minigame - decker
• [Clicky] Maya. The professional CGI creation tool - the one that sells all those silicon graphics boxes. For free. (Although it does watermark your images unless you register it)
• [Clicky] I menioned the possibility of macroing in ATITD and wa surprised that no one seemd to know what it is, or how advanced the tools to do it are. Avoid RSI and realise more quickly how pointless tradeskill games are with this tool.
• [Clicky] A classic online flash gamey thing - minigolf.
• [Clicky] "I'm a cow, can't you see, that I live, country - moo-oo, I'm a cow..."
• [Clicky] Hatten ar din - Hatt baby!
• [Clicky] You get to play a dragon, therefore you want this game.
• [Clicky] Godzilla - you will want to listen to this.
• Whoo! Down to page ten - we're on the home stretch now!
• [Clicky] I probably shouldn't - but here is the "I like pie" flash.
• [Clicky] A very very cute kitten singing a song
• [Clicky] Why palladium is a bad thing - written calmly by someone with very good credentials
• [Clicky] Some fixes for neverwinter night - like making it run in a window. Turning 'creature hadow detail' down or off is the fix that stops most of the stutterring
• [Clicky] John Tynes. Visit his site and read everything he has put there.

Wow - I hope it's just a symptom of me getting bored that there are almost no links culled from the last four pages.

I'd really hate to think that catnews has gotten crappier over time - since it started off about as crappy as it could posisbly be.