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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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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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Monitor System

Conky – system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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Monitor System

Saidar – view the system statistics available through libstatgrab

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.

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ERP

PostBooks – ERP for sales, accounting, operations and CRM in a single system

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

PostBooks is an open source accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning business (ERP) system targeted at small to medium sized businesses.

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Documentation

trasher – replace rm and del by a trash system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Trasher is a small command-line utility that aims to replace rm. It moves items to a trash directory instead of deleting them immediately.

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Circuit board

Fastfetch – fetch system information

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.

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Circuit board

macchina – system information fetcher

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

macchina lets you view system information, like your kernel version, uptime, memory usage, processor load and much more.

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