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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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Security

John the Ripper is an advanced offline password cracker

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Security

John the Ripper is a password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems.

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Chess

Weiss is a UCI chess engine

June 14, 2025 Steve Emms Games

This is a chess engine written in C.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

D-Spy – explore the D-Bus

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

D-Spy is a simple tool to explore D-Bus connections.

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Chess

Ethereal is a UCI chess engine

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Ethereal is a UCI-compliant chess engine operating under the alpha-beta framework, paired with a Neural Network for positional evaluations.

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Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes

June 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Schemes allow you to create syntax highlighting style-schemes for GtkSourceView-based applications such as Builder or Text Editor.

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Bomb

xdémineur is a minesweeper game

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Games

xdémineur is a minesweeper game for the X Window System.

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Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations and focused on simplicity.

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FICS Internet Chess Clients

CoreChess – chess GUI for chess engines

June 9, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Play chess (standard or Chess960) against your computer.

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Bomb

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GMines is a clone of the well-known minesweeper game. The look is inspired by the KDE minesweeper program.

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Web Design

mkws is a simple static site generator

June 6, 2025 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

mkws is a simple static site generator using sh as a templating language.

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Chess Engines

Berserk is a UCI compliant chess engine

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Berserk is a strong open source chess engine. It’s an unusual chess engine with a unique style of play.

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Diary

Simple Diary is a simple and lightweight app

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Simple Diary saves entries in standard Markdown. There’s support for images, and a responsive design.

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Video Games

Tux Fishing is a 3D fishing game

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Tux Fishing is the first FOSS Linux Fishing game in 3D.

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Data Science

Xnec2c – graphical NEC2 antenna simulation

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Xnec2c is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns.

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Network

Vgmi is a Gemini client written in C

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Vgmi is a Gemini client. Gemini is a internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents.

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Pins creates and edits app shortcuts

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pins allows you to customize your app menu by editing .desktop files. It’s written in C.

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Video-Emulators

dgb-n64 is an experimental low-level N64 emulator

June 2, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

dgb-n64 is a experimental low-level N64 emulator written in C and a bit of C++. It’s under heavy development and not ready for prime time.

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Video-Emulators

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC.

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Video-Emulators

SkyEmu is a Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS emulator

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Its primary focus is to preserve these great systems for future generations while providing a good user experience.

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