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Domination – risk clone

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Domination is a risk clone. In the classic ‘World Domination’ game of military strategy, you are battling to conquer the world.

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Crimson Fields – free turn-based tactical war game

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Crimson Fields is a hex-based tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Two players command their units on a map of hexagons.

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Ancient Beast – turn based strategy indie game

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Ancient Beast is a turn based strategy indie game project. Ancient Beast is free and open source software written in JavaScript.

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Argentum Age – digital collectible card game with tactical positioning

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Argentum Age is a digital collectible card game (DCCG) based on Anura, a fully-featured game engine.

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8 Kingdoms – inspired by the world of fantasy

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Games

8 Kingdoms is a 3D turn-based fantasy strategic game in which players become kings, build their empires and conquer enemy kingdoms.

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GShutdown – GTK2 shutdown tool

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

GShutdown is a simple GTK tool that allows you to schedule the logout, the shutdown or the restart of your computer.

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Visp – Vi-like Spotify client

October 27, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia

Visp is an interactive console client for Spotify. It’s free and open source software published under the MIT license.

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Spotify

Psst – Spotify client with native GUI

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Psst is a Spotify client sporting an attractive graphical user interface. It requires a subscription to Spotify Premium.

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Spot – Native Spotify client for GNOME

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Spot is a GTK/Rust native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop. The software only works with a Spotify premium account.

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Find

dcfldd – enhanced version of dd

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. dcfldd is free and open source software.

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toot – Mastodon CLI and TUI client

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Toot is a command-line interface and terminal user interface tool for interacting with Mastodon instances.

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Find

anewer – appends lines from stdin to a file

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

anewer appends lines from stdin to a file if they don’t already exist in the file.

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Find

anew – add new lines to files

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

anew is a tool for adding new lines to files, skipping duplicates. The software also outputs new lines to stdout.

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Find

fselect – find files with SQL-like queries

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fselect is a command-line utility to find files with SQL-like queries. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Development Tools

Vely – general purpose framework

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Vely is a C programming language framework for rapid building of general purpose applications. It’s free and open source software.

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Sticky Notes

qtPad – modern and highly customizable sticky note application

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

CPU-G is an open source application that shows useful information about your hardware. The software is released under an open source license.

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Circuit board

lshw – Hardware Lister

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

lshw is a small open source tool to extract detailed and comprehensive information on the hardware configuration of the machine.

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i7z – i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

i7z is a small open source utility that reports Intel Core i7, i5, i3 CPU information. The information displayed covers Turbo Boost, frequencies, …

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Circuit board

hwinfo – hardware information tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

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Comic Books

Jomic – viewer and converter for comic books

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Other

Jomic is a viewer for comic books stored in CBZ, CBR, and PDF files. Features include a two page mode, caching and support for several image formats.

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