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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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X Minecraft Launcher – modern Minecraft launcher

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

X Minecraft Launcher is a feature-rich Minecraft launcher to manage resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods, and shader packs.

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Warble

muttum – guess a word in few attempts

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

With muttum, pick a dictionary and try to find the random word.

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Arcade Games

Asteroid Shooter – time-bound survival asteroid shooter

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Asteroid Shooter is a local 2-player spaceship asteroid survival game. Each game round lasts 120 seconds.

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DOS Browser – lightweight browser designed for retro computing enthusiasts

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DOS Browser is a browser with built-in acceleration for DOS/Win9x games.

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Space Nerds – cooperative multiplayer starship simulator

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Space Nerds In Space allows you to man the various bridge controls of a starship. You can play Space Nerds In Space alone or with friends

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Game Tools

EmptyEpsilon – spaceship bridge simulator game

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It’s fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.

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Cosmic Expansion – space 2D shooter game

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Cosmic Expansion is a 2D space shooter where you take on the role of a seasoned space pilot tasked with destroying waves of enemy spaceships.

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Chess

Ghost – xboard compatible chess engine

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ghost is an xboard compatible chess engine. It offers multi-core support, singular Extensions, and more.

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