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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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Game Tools

ProtonPlus – modern compatibility tools manager

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

ProtonPlus lets you install and manage Wine/Proton based compatibility tools with a graphical user interface.

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Millennium – low-code modding framework

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Millennium is a low-code modding framework to create, manage and use themes/plugins for the desktop Steam Client.

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Chess

zurichess – UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

zurichess is a chess engine and a chess library. Its main goals are to be a relatively strong chess engine and to enable chess tools writing.

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Chess

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine

June 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

ShashChess is a free UCI chess engine derived from Stockfish family chess engines.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Minesweeper

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. We recommend the best open source minesweeper games.

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Bomb

terminal-mines is a minesweeper game for terminals

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

terminal-mines is an implementation of Minesweeper with an adventure mode. It is played using the keyboard instead of a mouse.

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Chess

Fruit – chess engine

June 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Fruit is a cross-platform UCI chess engine.

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Game Tools

Faugus Launcher is a simple and lightweight app for running games using UMU-Launcher

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Faugus Launcher lets you play native Linux games, play Windows games using Proton, and use lots of useful game tools.

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Bomb

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game for Unix-like systems. The ncurses library is preferred.

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Bomb

minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with mouse and VT220 support

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with multiple character sets, timer and flag counter, and a cheat mode.

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Role-Play Games

Gameeky – create and explore cooperative games

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Gameeky lets young learners and educators create and explore cooperative games and learning experiences.

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Chess

Demolito is a UCI chess engine

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

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Linux at Home - Doom

RBDOOM-3-BFG is a modernization effort of DOOM-3-BFG

June 21, 2025 Steve Emms Games

RBDOOM-3-BFG is based on DOOM-3-BFG and the goal of this port is to bring DOOM-3-BFG up to latest technology in 2025

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Chess

Critter – chess UCI engine

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Critter is not yet mature enough to have a distinctive playing style and relies more on tactics.

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Bomb

MineSector is a snappy minesweeper-based game

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

MineSector is a minesweeper game that uses only SDL2 and extension libraries SDL_image, SDL_ttf, and SDL_mixer.

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Bomb

tminesweeper – terminal-based minesweeper game

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

tminesweeper is a minesweeper game which runs in the terminal.

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Bomb

tui mines – text-based mine sweeping puzzle game

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

tui mines is a text-based user interface implementation of the classic mine sweeping puzzle game.

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Chess

Koivisto is a strong chess engine

June 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Koivisto in itself is not a complete chess program and requires a UCI-compatible graphical user interface.

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Chess

JFXChess is a JavaFX Chess GUI

June 16, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

JFXChess is a cross-platform chess graphical user interface.

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