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Game Utilities is a section of utilities and add-ons that enable you to run and enhance your LINUX based games. You will also find emulators and other small add-ons.
Acidwarp
- Version: Stable 1.0
- Byte Size: 20.4 KB (20,939 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: October 8th, 1998
- Description: Acidwarp is a Linux port of a DOS eyecandy program. Reminiscent of Amiga Demo programs and fractal manipulations, Acidwarp shows cool images on the screen and rotates the palette. It is a pretty nice little screensaver, except that it only runs under SVGALib.
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Adventure++
- Version: Stable 1.9.0
- Byte Size: 62.3 KB (63,805 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: July 23, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
- Binary: RPM
- Additional Software Required: libRPG
- Note: Also available GTK+ version, Editor
- Description: A text-based game creator. It can make simple or advanced text-based adventure games, complete with items, movement
in 6 directions (n, s, e, w, u, d), and a battle system. Not really all that great, just an example of what libRPG can do as far
as game creation.
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AnaGram Search
- Version: Stable 1.3.1
- Byte Size: 410.4 KB (420,211 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 17, 1998
- Description: AnaGram searches for single- or multi-word anagrams of target words, and has options to assist finding good anagrams by eliminating excessive "dross" words supplied with freely-distributable dictionary of 133,000 words.
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Biorythm
- Version: Stable 1.1.1
- Byte Size: 6.3 KB (6,422 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: July 5, 1998
- Description: This program calculates a simple biorythm plot, including a selectable mixture of emotional, intellectual, physical and average curves.
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CircleMUD
- Version: Stable 3.0 pl17
- Byte Size: 982.8 KB (1,006,406 bytes)
- License: Free to use
- Revision Date: February 3, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.circlemud.org/
- Description: CircleMUD is a multi-user dungeon game system (MUD). A MUD (Multiple User Dimension or Multiple User Dungeon) is a computer program which allows Internet users from around the world to connect to it, create
fictional characters for themselves, and then interact with other real users as well as computer-generated entities in a virtual environment.
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CMatrix
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Curstars
- Version: Stable 1.0
- Byte Size: 2.3 KB (2,321 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 20, 1999
- Description: A simple ncurses based starfield program. I wanted to give it a higher rating, but it just doesn't do much!
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deal
- Version: Stable 2.0
- Byte Size: 4.6 KB (4,730 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: October 9, 1996
- Description: Calculates non-replacement probabilities of card deals. Useful for tuning Magic: The Gathering decks.
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Dumb
- Version: Stable 0.13.11
- Byte Size: 832.8 KB (852,817 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: January 31, 2000
- Home Page: http://samba.anu.edu.au/dumb/
- Binary: RPM, PPC
Sparc
- Additional Software Required: Any iWad file (shareware will do)
- Description: Dumb is a 3D game engine similar to the Doom and Heretic game engines. Although this project is in active development and is a little difficult to get going, its still loads of fun to play with.
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Faces
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FCE Ultra
- Version: Development 0.19
- Byte Size: 139.8 KB (143,175 bytes)
- License: Freeware
- Revision Date: January 14, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.kc.net/~zaik/fceu/
- Description: FCE Ultra is an emulator of the Nintendo, Famicom, and NES. FCE Ultra
has a good compatibility rate and many features, such as sound and
authentic Game Genie emulation. FCE Ultra uses a custom SVGAlib
to display graphics. SVGAlib and glibc are statically linked with FCE Ultra,
so you need not worry about shared library incompatibilities.
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Fireplace
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Fortune
- Version: Stable 1.2.5
- Byte Size: 457.6 KB (468,532 bytes)
- License: BSD
- Revision Date: February 23, 1999
- Home Page: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/amusements/fortune/
- Binary: RPM
- Description: This is the ever popular fortune program. It will gladly print a random fortune when run. It is usually fun to put in the .login for your users on a system so they see something new every time they log in.
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FreeScrabble
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Industrial MUD
- Version: Stable 0.2.0
- Byte Size: 44.0 KB (45,091 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: June 02, 1999
- Home Page: http://tcia.ourfamily.com/indy/
- Description: Industrial MUD is a free Multiple User Dungeon (M.U.D.) Telnet Server that is written from scratch. It is developed for Linux and includes a small internal programming language called "Weld." Weld allows for artificially intelligent autonomous computer robot players. Customization is definitely possible, but it is ready to run right out of the box as a normal game. It is believed to be very efficient in execution speed, system load, memory, and binary size. Currently the source code is around 4000 lines of C code.
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JMud
- Version: Stable 0.24
- Byte Size: 202.8 KB (207,696 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 1st, 2000
- Home Page: http://jmud.sourceforge.net
- Description: JMud is a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) server written in Java(TM). Portuguese (brazilian) version is currently available. English and Spanish versions are in progress.
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kgredit
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Koala Complete MUD Server
- Version: Development 0.2.1a
- Byte Size: 201.9 KB (206,724 bytes)
- License: BSD
- Revision Date: Febuary 7, 2000
- Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/project/?form_grp=312
- Description: Koala is a highly-distributed IP6/IP4 MUD server. It allows for very large game
worlds to be distributed between multiple machines in a manner transparent to
players.
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Linux Logo
- Version: Stable 3.0ab1
- Byte Size: 39.5 KB (40,413 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: January 11, 1999
- Description: Displays a Linux banner with a penguin in ASCII. Good for generating snazzy Messages of the Day or to display at boot time.
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Makeissue
- Version: Stable 0.02
- Byte Size: 1.9 KB (1,970 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: April 12, 1999
- Description: Makeissue is a Perl script to run at boot time to put interesting info in /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net instead of the boring issue files that most distributions ship. It should support x86, sparc, alpha and basically displays hardware info.
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mcountd
- Version: Stable 0.4
- Byte Size: 9.8 KB (9,991 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: March 5, 2000
- Home Page: http://mcountd.sourceforge.net/
- Binary: RPM, Sparc RPM
- Description: mcountd is a incredibly simple
program for displaying a countdown
clock in text-mode. The numbers
are drawn in "ascii-art" style.
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Moonclock
- Version: Stable 1.0
- Byte Size: 23.1 KB (23,705 bytes)
- License: MIT
- Revision Date: August 17, 1998
- Description: Displays the time of day and the current moon phase. Colors change depending on time of day (day/night) and the moon is displayed in a neat little wedge with a star field.
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mudix
- Version: Stable 2.0 / Development
- Byte Size: 15.7 KB (16,114 bytes)
- License: OpenSource
- Revision Date: March 21th, 2000
- Home Page: http://dwizardry.dhs.org
- Description: MUDix is a simple mud client that runs on a
console (ncurses). It supports ANSI colors,
triggers, aliases and much more. Very stable
and still under development.
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mudnames
- Version: Stable 1.5
- Byte Size: 44.0 KB (45,105 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: August 20, 1998
- Home Page: http://personal.redestb.es/ragnar/
- Description: Fantasy character name generator.
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Multiverse
- Version: Stable 0.1.3e
- Byte Size: 29.5 KB (30,241 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: September 5, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.innerworld.org/project/multiverse.html
- Description: Multiverse is intended to be a small but efficient medium for developing distributed client/server applications. Its primary use, however, is for Innerworld, a free system for developing 'virtual worlds' (akin to UO and Everquest) that is currently under development.
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QStat
- Version: Stable 2.3f
- Byte Size: 123.6 KB (126,566 bytes)
- License: Free But Restricted
- Revision Date: January 31, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
- Binary: RPM
- Description: QStat is a command-line program that displays information about Internet game servers. The servers are either down, non-responsive, or running a game. For servers running a game, the server name, map name, current number of players, and response time are displayed.
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Sarien
- Version: Stable 0.5.0
- Byte Size: 187.0 KB (191,452 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: February 16, 2000
- Binary: RPM
- Description: a Sierra AGI interpreter that enables you to play Sierra AGI version 2 and version 3 games, as well as AGI games written by other people. It is being written to make it easy to port it to DOS, Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Amiga, XWindows, etc with as little changes as possible.
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ScryMUD
- Version: Stable 2.0.10
- Byte Size: 779.8 KB (798,468 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: February 2, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.primenet.com/~greear/ScryMUD/scry.html
- Description: ScryMUD is a project nearly 5 years old. It is a MUD written completely from scratch in C++. It has a full feature set, including persistent belongings, a tree-based skill/spell system, game-navigated vehicles, complex scripting, player-owned stores, and much more. The distribution also comes with Hegemon, a Java Client which gives a Graphical interface to ScryMUD. It is especially nice for the UI it gives to ScryMUD's Online Building.
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Snes9x
- Version: Stable 1.29
- Byte Size: 409.3 KB (419,117 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: January 28, 2000
- Home Page: http://www.snes9x.com
- Binary: ELF6,
ELF5,
PPC,
RPM
- Description: Snes9X is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC or Workstation; they include some real gems that were only ever released in Japan. Snes9X is coded in C++, with three assembler CPU emulation cores on the i386 Linux, MS-DOS and Windows ports.
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Stella
- Version: Stable 1.1
- Byte Size: 573.9 KB (587,688 bytes)
- License: Distributable
- Revision Date: March 9, 1999
- Home Page: http://stella.atari.org/
- Binary: Sparc
- Description: The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980's. This emulator will run most Atari ROM images, so that you can play your favorite old Atari 2600 games on your PC.
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TinyFugue
- Version: Stable 4.0 Stable 1
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: February 2, 1999
- Home Page: http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/
- Description: TinyFugue is a flexible, screen-oriented MUD client, loaded with powerful options and user configurability. TinyFugue is one of the more popular and most powerful MUD clients available.
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Tipxd
- Version: Stable 1.0.1
- Byte Size: 66.5 KB (68,093 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: August 20, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.norritt.org/Projects/tipxd/
- Description: Tipxd is an IPX protocol tunneling daemon, running IPX over TCP/IP between many hosts and unpacking them on the other side. This is especially useful for people with masqueraded hosts who want to communicate IPX traffic to others with masqueraded hosts. Now, why would you ever want to do this, you ask? GAMES! GAMES! GAMES!
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Welcome2L
- Version: Stable 3.04
- Byte Size: 114.3 KB (117,077 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: June 03, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.littleigloo.org/
- Binary: Redhat
- Description: Welcome2L is a little program that may run at login time to produce a BBS like ANSI login logo. It's very similar to Linux_Logo. But where Linux_Logo intends to be portable, Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens by making full usage of PC graphic characters. Therefore an architecture able to display those characters (i386, Alpha with TGA adapter, etc.) is required to use it. And, even if it will work on larger screens, it will only produce 80 column ANSI screens.
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xNES
- Version: Stable 0.49
- Byte Size: 29.9 KB (30,644 bytes)
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: July 8, 1998
- Home Page: http://emu.simplenet.com/index.html
- Binary: RPM
- Description: A Nintendo emulator for 8 bit Nintendo cartridges. XNes emulates the following Nintendo features: the 6502; 8x8 and 8x16 sprites; trainers; the most important I/O ports; sprite flipping; one controller; MMC 2, 3, 7 and 11; horizontal and vertical scrolling; and WRAM saving. Note that the XNes project was discontinued in January of 1998, so XNes is no longer in development.
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Zero-Ping Database
- Version: Stable 0.9
- License: GPL
- Revision Date: July 7, 1999
- Home Page: http://www.zero-ping.com/zpdb/
- Description: zpdb is a Java program that keeps track of Quake 2,and Quake3 Arena games by querying Quake master servers and keeping a local cached database. It includes several tools for querying the database easily. Formerly Q2sdb.
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