OutKast Solutions, developers of OutKafe, are proud to announce the release of GamePack 1.0, an object pascal game development suite for the Lazarus RAD/IDE. GamePack has been in development for nearly 4 years and boasts many impressive features that sets it appart among. Most notably is the fact that it is built entirely using native lazarus components, this means it is as multiplatform as lazarus and does not require reinventing wheels that lazarus already supports - instead it can focus on those functionalities not generally provided.

Among others gamepack features:

1) A complete double-buffered visual component

2) Components for sprite management

3) Components for handling sprite motion and collision detection.

 You can get more information from the GamePack wiki page.

OutKast Solutions is proud to anounce the availability of a new installer for the quasar accounting suite. Quasar is perhaps the only enterprize level accounting suite that is free software, open-source and linux based (though it has a windows client, the server is linux only.

See OutKast's A.J. Venter's review of Quasar accounting here.

As the review points out, the single biggest shortcoming in Quasar is a cumbersome and difficult installation process. OutKast, as a favour to the free-software community has decided to help make that better. The new installer system utilizes KDE to provide a pleasant graphical wizard that will install dependencies, configure your system and get Quasar up and running for you.

The script was primarilly written and tested on pclinuxOS but should be fully compatible with any distro that has core KDE functionality and uses the apt-get system. Any system incompatibilities are handled gracefully with the user getting the chance to work around them.

OutKast would welcome feedback on the script, especially to help make it better and even more distro-neutral. The script, like Quasar, is GPL'd.

 You can download the OutKast installer for Quasar here.