Free classic space software for linux

CuteMenus Classic provides a rewritten extension based on CuteMenus 0.4.

This is a rewritten extension based on CuteMenus 0.4 so that menus will be iconized not by JavaScript but by CSS. In other words, No JavaScript is Used! Contained icons are either directly taken from or combination of the icons inside CuteMenus 2, Thunderbird default theme, and Firefox default theme.

CuteMenus Classic is dramatically downsized by using icons inside Firefox default theme aggressively in addition to these built-in icons. See the next sentence of "Install Now" below. You will notice its less than 25KB! In spite of the small size, almost all of DEFAULT menuitems will be iconized.

Note that CuteMenus Classic does NOT support any other extensions.

Plan 9 From User Space is a port of the bulk of the Plan 9 software build environment to Unix.
While the libraries make an attempt to play nice with the rest of the system (by using the Unix rules for printf verbs and Unix system headers, for example), this port tries to reproduce the Plan 9 build environment as faithfully as possible, providing u.h and libc.h, and blithely redefining tokens such as open, dup, and accept in order to provide implementations that better mimic the Plan 9 semantics.
The result is a more complicated and less Unix-friendly environment, but Plan 9 programs can typically be compiled with little or no changes.
Most obviously, plan9port derives from Plan 9 from Bell Labs and would not exist without the work of the Plan 9 team over the past many years.
Rob Pike suggested the original X11 port of libdraw years ago, as part of drawterm, and strongly encouraged the Mac OS X work. He has also been a consistent source of good ideas to hide the ugliness of modern Unix.
William Josephson handled troff(1) (with Taj Khattra) and many of the supporting programs. He also inspired the thread library clean-up and has ported a handful of applications.
Andrey Mirtchovski and Axel Belinfante have done significant work dealing with X11 corner cases and fine-tuning rio(1). Axel never tires of finding bugs in the SunOS port.
Latchesar Ionkov has contributed many fixes to tricky bugs, and got factotum(4) up and running.
Many other people have provided help, ported programs, written bug reports, sent useful patches, and gotten plan9port running on new systems.
Bigelow & Holmes, Inc. created the screen fonts in the luc, lucm, lucsans, and pelm directories and granted permission to redistribute them with plan9port.
Enhancements:
- A FUSE-related bug was fixed. See http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2006-July/048531.html

IGE - Outer Space is an on-line strategy game with SciFi theme.

IGE - Outer Space is an on-line strategy game which takes place in the dangerous universe. You must become the commander of many stars, planets, and great fleets and you will struggle for survival with other commanders.

Outer Space communicates with the server in the same way as your browser, but you will need a special client to play it. Using this client you can create an account on the server and you can start to explore the world of the Outer Space.

Really Rather Good Battles In Space is a real time strategy game with fleets of spaceships.
Single player real time strategy game following the fall of the great Argonian empire.
Main features:
- a short but relatively polished single player campaign
- pretty (albeit 2d) graphics
- spaceships
- explosions

Space Mines project is a game where one makes money by building mines.
Space Mines is a game where one needs to make money by building mines and by keeping ones workers happy.
INSTALLATION
make all
make install
make clean
USAGE
Build mines (but not too many) and create profits by selling the ore!
You need to pay your workers wages to keep them happy. Mining on other worlds is a dangerous business, and workers are at risk from exploding mines, radiation leaks, etc.
Version restrictions:
- There is very little error checking for if someone enters the wrong data type (like letters where there should be numbers).
Enhancements:
- Decided to release it to the world
- Made it GPL
- Included some documentation

Space Commander is a game that aims to be similar to Elite and Privateer, with maybe a bit of Trade Wars thrown in.
The project is a remarkably functional space simulation with under 200 lines of code in the main file.
DEPENDENCIES
You need a recent version of Python and some support libraries. The game is currently being written using Python v 2.4.3 but it may work with newer or older versions with some minor tweaking. I intend to be using Python 2.5 and PyGame 1.8 shortly.
- Python 2.4.3
- PyGame 1.7
- Numeric 22.0
Basically you need a pretty complete Python kit. Most Linux distributions should have everything that you need and Windows / OSX users will be able to install it all with a small bit of effort.
To play the MIDI score in Linux you have to install and configure Timidity due to some old code in sdl-mixer which is a pre-dependency of PyGame. If the game crashes and
complains about midi, just comment out the MIDI line in spacecommander.py to disable it.
As to performance issues. I pass the buck. If it runs too slowly then get a faster computer, better graphics card, better operating system, whatever.
The idea of writing this in Python is to have a compromise between ultimate performance and the ability to understand and tinker around with the code.
You could try reducing the number of stars in the galaxy by editing bigbang.py also.
Feel free to re-write the game in hand optimized assembler, but you must send me a copy of your code per the LICENSE.
RUNNING THE GAME
Linux: ./spacecommander.py
KEYBOARD COMMANDS
ESC / Q: Quit the game
Left / Right: Yaw
Up / Down: Pitch
PgUp / PgDN: Roll
Enhancements:
- The main engine was completely rewritten and now supports flying a spaceship around a randomly generated galaxy. 2D rendering of objects using PyGame is supported.
- Mouse flight control is featured.

Automanic is an vehicular deathmatch game.

Automanic is a vehicular deathmatch game, hopefully becoming the best of Twisted Metal, Interstate 76, the Burnout Games, and Carmageddeon, focussing on cross-country carnage. It uses Crystal Space, CEL, and ODE.