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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Inform – Design System for Interactive Fiction

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It’s a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed.

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Web Delivery

Responsive Aeon Grid System – elegant & minimalist CSS grid

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Responsive Aeon Grid System is a simple and minimalist alternative to start with Responsive Design and fluid Grids for Web Designers.

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File Managers

cdls – Curses based file manager for system managers

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

cdls is a curses-based file manager for quickly browsing directories and files. The screen can be dynamically adjusted to include all information.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Snes9x – freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

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Video-Emulators

higan – Nintendo multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

higan emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.

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Video-Emulators

Stella – Multi-platform Atari 2600 Video Computer System

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Stella allows you to enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games once again by emulating the 2600’s hardware with software.

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Video-Emulators

Mednafen – multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument (command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features.

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Mega Drive

Xe – multi system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Xe is a multi system emulator for Linux that emulates many console and handheld video game systems. It offers great compatibility and high accuracy.

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Mega Drive

DGen/SDL – emulator for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive systems

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DGen/SDL is an emulator for Unix-esque operating systems supported by the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library.

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Retro

Atari800 – Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more).

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Retro

MAME – recreates the hardware of arcade game systems in software

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

MAME is an emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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DevOps

Valgrind – instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools

November 11, 2023 Erik Karlsson Programming

Valgrind is a tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. Essentially a virtual machine using just-in-time compilation techniques.

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Internet Forum Software

Phorum – free message board system written in PHP

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Phorum is a flat-threaded message board system written in PHP. Phorum uses a database to manage its messages.

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Log Analyzers

KSystemLog – system log viewer tool

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

KSystemLog is a system log viewer tool for KDE. KSystemLog helps users understand what their machine does in the background.

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Log Analyzers

Xlogmaster – monitor everything on your system

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Xlogmaster is software that lets you monitor everything that is happening on your system. It monitors an almost infinite number of logfiles and devices.

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Search

Tracker – filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly.

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Audio Programming

Csound – sound and music computing system

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Programming

Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is called Csound because it is written in C.

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Gamer Utilities

GreenWithEnvy – system utility providing information, control fans and overclock NVIDIA cards

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GreenWithEnvy is a GTK system utility designed to provide information, control the fans and overclock your NVIDIA video card and graphics processor. The utility’s name derives from the slogan of the GeForce 8 series, that was “Green with envy”. Nvidia

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Gamer Utilities

GameMode – optimizse Linux system performance on demand

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GameMode is a daemon/lib that allows games to request a set of optimizations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.

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Monitor System

bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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