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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

QTads – Multimedia Interpreter for Tads Games

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

QTads is an open source cross-platform, multimedia interpreter for Text Adventure Development System (Tads games, compatible with HTML TADS).

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Best Free and Open Source Interactive Fiction Tools

Gargoyle – Cross-Platform Interactive Fiction Player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Gargoyle is an Interactive Fiction player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

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Game Engines

Cocos2d-x – game framework written in C++

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Cocos2d-x is an open-source framework for building 2D games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications.

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Game Engines

Urho3D – cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Urho3D (originally known as Bofh3D) is a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++.

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Text Editor

Textosaurus – simple cross-platform UTF-8 text editor based on Qt and Scintilla

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Textosaurus is a simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

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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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File Managers

VFU File Manager – VF File Manager for UNIX

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

VFU is a console (text mode) file manager for UNIX/Linux.VFU covers all file managing needs and offers a large set of behaviour options.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

bsnes – standalone SNES emulator using the higan SNES core

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator. The emulator concentrates on performance, features, and ease of use.

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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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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

Mesen – high-accuracy NES and Famicom emulator and NSF player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mesen is a cross-platform NES/Famicom emulator for Windows and Linux.

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Video-Emulators

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) – portable NES/Famicom emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is an NES/Famicom emulator. It’s a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.

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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

Dolphin – GameCube and Wii emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii.

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DeSmuME – Nintendo DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator that aims to be portable. It can be run from the command line directly or as a graphical program.

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Video-Emulators

Citra – work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Citra is a work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator started in early 2014. It runs under Windows and Linux.

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PCSX2 – PlayStation 2 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 emulator.The emulator contains highly optimized dynamic translators for the PS2’s MIPS and VU chips.

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Video-Emulators

RPCS3 – free and open source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger. About 35% of PS3 game are playable with the emulator.

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Video-Emulators

PPSSPP – free and open source PSP emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator released under an open source license. PPSSPP simulates the BIOS and the internal OS.

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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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