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Game Engines

MonoGame – framework for creating powerful cross-platform games

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

MonoGame is a fully managed .NET open source game framework without any black boxes. Create, develop and distribute your games your way.

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vis – vi-like editor based on Plan 9’s structural regular expressions

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

vis seeks to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient editor combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam.

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Text Editor

medit – text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor. It’s a GTK text editor released under an open source license.

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Text Editor

Howl – fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Howl is a general purpose, fast and lightweight open source editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.

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File Managers

Ytree – a curses-based file manager similar to DOS Xtree

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Ytree is a curses-based file manager.The software browses filesystems and archives (RAR/SPM/RPM/TAR/ARC/LHA/ZIP/ZOO).

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File Managers

ncursesFM – Ncurses File Manager for Linux

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

ncursesFM is a file manager written in C, with the ncurses library.It aims to be as user friendly and lightweight as possible, while being good looking and simple.

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File Managers

CLEX – file manager with a full-screen user interface

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

CLEX (pronounced KLEKS) is a file manager with a full-screen user interface. It displays directory contents.

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File Managers

lxt (linuXtree) – file manager program inspired by XTreeGold

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

lxt is a file manager program for Linux (and other Unix variants) that was inspired by the popular DOS program XTreeGold.

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File Managers

NFFM (Not a Fancy File Manager) – mouseless ncurses file manager

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

NFFM (Not a Fancy File Manager) is a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

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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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File Managers

mfiler4 – 2 pane console file manager with xyzsh shell script language

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

mfiler4 is a 2 pane console file manager with xyzsh shell script language.

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FDclone – console-based lightweight file manager

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

FD (FD stands for “File and Directory”) is an easy-to-use file management tool for Un*x newbies.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

ZSNES – free Super Nintendo emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ZSNES is an emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It can run most of the SNES games at full speed with sound and special graphic filters.

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Video-Emulators

Mupen64Plus – N64 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.

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Video-Emulators

SameBoy – user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C.

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Video-Emulators

mGBA – Game Boy Advance emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators.

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Video-Emulators

Yabause – Sega Saturn emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Yabause (Yet Another Buggy And Uncomplete Saturn Emulator) is an emulator for the Sega Saturn. Yabause can boot Saturn bios and games.

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Video-Emulators

Reicast – Sega Dreamcast emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Reicast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator. It’s an app that allows you to play your Dreamcast games on your computer or Android phone.

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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

RetroArch – front-end for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and more

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. It supports a huge range of emulators.

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