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Where is M13 for Linux 2.2
It helps you visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects more>> Where is M13? is a unique application that helps you visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects in and around the Galaxy.
At home, Where is M13? serves as a reference you will frequently turn to when you read about an object and become curious where it is with respect to our galaxy. In the field, the program will enhance your observing experience by allowing you to get an intuitive sense of the physical location, size, luminosity, and distance of the object you are viewing. You will find Where is M13? a great educational and outreach tool as well.<<less
DonateBot - Linux 1.0
Donate to charity for free simply by running a small program in the background. In exchange for your unused CPU processing power, you will give to the charity of your choice. This application contains NO POPUPS, NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE. more>>
DonateBot - Linux 1.0 is a professional and easy-to-use tool which can donate to charity for free simply by running a small program in the background. In exchange for your unused CPU processing power, you will give to the charity of your choice. This application contains no popups, no spyware,no adware. You can donate more than 1000 grains of wheat, 1000 ounces of water, 1000 minutes of education or 1000 square inches of rain forest everyday simply by leaving your computer on.
DonateBot contains absolutely no spyware and no adware. You will not be harassed with nasty popup ads when using this application. Most likely, you won't even know that its running! However, the donations to charity that you make are still very real. To select the charity you want to donate to, simply click on one of the four images. You can donate ounces of water (Charity:water), grains of wheat (CARE), minutes of education (Oaktree Foundation) and square inches of rain forest (The Nature Conservancy).
Many computers sit idle for hours or days at a time. DonateBot lets you share this unused processing power with organizations that need to solve complicated problems, such as analyzing the galaxies or performing mathematical calculations.
Your day-to-day computer operations, like browsing the internet, writing a document or listening to music will not be affected by DonateBot. You can manually change the CPU usage in the program if you are concerned about computer performance. The Windows version can automatically boost CPU usage when you haven't used your computer for a few minutes, maximizing your donations.
DonateBot is 100% safe. The distributed computing system runs in a secure Java sandbox that has no access to your files
Major Features:
- Donate to charity for free simply by running a small program in the background
- Let you share this unused processing power with organizations that need to solve complicated problems, such as analyzing the galaxies or performing mathematical calculations.
- Manually change the CPU usage in the program if you are concerned about computer performance.
Requirements: Java SE6

The Attack of Mutant Fruits for linux 1.0
The Earth have a new enemy,The Mutant Fruits are crossing the galaxy . more>> When Human Beings have been destroyed themselves ... who will replace them?. Trying to avoid the disaster, The Earth Alliance sent to another planets the main fruits and vegatables seeds to have an ecological reserve, but maybe ... is late. Most of seeds mutanted to new species.
The Earth have a new enemy, from outer space, The Mutant Fruits are crossing the galaxy to conquest our world.
Who will be our hero?
Features
* 10 worlds around the galaxy.
* 8 original melodies. Pump up the volume and enjoy it.
* 3 different weapons and shields to destroy the enemies.
* Keyboard and Joystick support. Ready for arcade systems.<<less
FoxGame 1.4.14
FoxGame is an extension that can be used to enhance user experience with O-game. more>>
Enhance user experience with O-game (now works in every o-game version)
Adds a lot of features to the webgame O-game.
It also integrates Database features inside the game.
O-Game, is a real-time spacial browser game.
bs-BA/hr-HR/cs-SR can be downloaded as a separate version from http://foxgame.mozdev.org/ because there is no especific firefox version for those languages.
Main features:
- Automatic universe selector in login page.
- Reduced galaxy view: Planet column is not rendered and its functinality is moved to Name col., debris header reduced also.
- Extra delete options and spy report options: You can control messages from the top or the bottom.
- Fleet arrival and return time: In fleet destiny selection page you will see the time when you fleet will arrive and come back to your planet.
- Fleet retreat time: In fleet page you will see the time when your fleet will arrive if you order to come back.
- Multilanguage support: es-ES(spanish), en-US(english), de-DE(deutsch), pl-PL(polish), fr-FR(french), nl-NL/nl-BR (dutch), it-IT (italian), bs-BA/sr-CS/hr-HR (bosnian, serbian, croatian), pt-PT/pt-BR(portugese), tr-TR(Turkish), zh-CN/zh-TW (Simplified chinese and traditional chinese), ru-RU (russian), da-DK (danish), si-SL (slovenian) and sv-SE/sv-FI (swedish). If your language is not supported and you want to translate it, mail me.
- Almost all finishing hours: Research and buildings finishing hours, hangars qeue finishing time, you can see date/time in overview if you wish and even in phalanx.
- Highlight ally and private messages: Ally and private messages now have a diferent background to see them easily.
- Highlight big debris fields: Debris fields bigger than you fix min will have different background in galaxy view.
- Autochoose mision type: You can define mission priorities so FoxGame will select the mission according to that.
- Online DBs integration: Send reports to Milos (only ogame.com.es), EspRep and GalaxieTool directly within OGame (solar systems, stats and spy reports supported).
- In mines and power plants info screens (the ones you see when you click in the name) you will see the diferences between your actual level and the rest.
- Autoselect fleet destination: Select coord text anywhere go to fleet send screen and Voila! the destination is already selected. There is no need to take down numbers anymore.
- Private message signatures.
Galaxy 0.8
Galaxy project is a stellar motion simulator which can show the development of a random field of stars. more>>
Galaxy is a free Linux computer program which simulates the motion of stars under the influence of gravity. Create a field of random stars to begin with, then watch the stars move as they are accelerated by their mutual gravitational attractions.
You can vary the number of stars, their initial velocities around a center, and the strength of the attractive force between them. Watch how the attractive forces accelerate individual stars and send them careening in new directions. Watch how large groups of stars develop into interesting patterns over time, such as clusters and spiral arms.
Galaxy is not for serious physics, but more a toy or educational aid for young students of science.
Scum of the Universe 1.0
Scum of the Universe is a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy. more>>
Following the main storyline, you go through the galaxy from one planet to another. Space travel requires fuel, so you need to keep earning money to buy it. You can also buy various upgrades for your spaceship and weapons that affect the arcade part of the game. The storyline itself is not linear. There are also some points where youll need to make decisions that will determine your destiny.
For thousands of years, people of planet Xen have colonized the planets in their galaxy. As time went by, many colonies grew unhappy about their status, as everything was controlled by Xen. Some of them organized military units and declared independence. You can see the status of each planet by "Rebel Sentiment" indicator. Planets with RS higher than 50% are ruled by the Rebel government, and Rebel laws apply.
Trading firearms is legal on planets ruled by Rebels, as they need as much firepower as they can get. On the other hand, Empire forbid all the trading with firearms and other ground weaponry as they wish to maintain their military advantage. One of the ways to make a lot of money is to buy cheap guns at Empire planets and sell them for a lot of money on Rebel planets where demand is extremely high. But be careful as youll need to fight Empire fleet once they find out youre a smuggler.
Beside the raging war between Xen Empire and the rebels there is increased activity of alien species, who destroy human ships. The stronger alien activity, the more waves of alien ships youll need to defeat in each planets outer orbit. Some of the aliens you destroy may drop artifacts (big blue ones) which you can sell at any space station for 20credits a piece.
Quantum Star: Generations 0.7.2c
Quantum Star: Generations is an easy to install and manage space strategy browser-based game. more>>
Quantum Star: Generations is a browser-based space strategy and trading game played across a mapped galaxy against other players. Utilizing mining, trading, research, and production through easy-to-use tools, QS enables both broad micro-management of resources or more "aggregated" methods. Players compete, combat enemy fleets, and manage planets to become the "last man standing". No user downloads are required, and the game is free to host or play.
Quantum Star: Generations Evolved is a browser-based space strategy game. It is playable from any modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. It is written in the PHP programming language and utilises either MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend database. It is also free for download and may be hosted independently by any user. The game is released under the terms of the Affero General Public License.
Quantum Star: Generations Evolved is a free open source application. Being open source you may modify and redistribute the source code under the terms of the Affero General Public License, or at your option the GNU General Public License version 3 (not version 2).
Main features:
- Free
- Its fun!
- Easy installation
- Support for all versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Support for both PHP4 and PHP5
- Platform independent
- Multiple language support with UTF-8 the standard character encoding
- Focus on security and resource efficiency
- Automated administration tasks
- Did we mention it is fun?
giFToxic 0.0.10
giFToxic provides a GTK 2-based client for giFT. more>>
At the moment it is under heavy development.
giFT stands for giFT: Internet File Transfer. It is a daemon that is intended to act as a bridge to combine the capability of using several (peer-to-peer or otherwise) file sharing protocols for a simple GUI client.
It uses the plugin paradigm to dynamically load different protocols for a client as and when required. The currently supported networks include:
Stable
OpenFT, giFTs own file sharing network
Gnutella1 (used by BearShare, LimeWire, ...)
Ares Galaxy
Turtle F2F
Beta
FastTrack (used by Kazaa)
Alpha
OpenNap
eDonkey
Soulseek
A lightweight protocol is used by clients to communicate with the giFT process, allowing the protocol code to be completely abstracted from the user interface.
Search nodes handle search requests. They search the filelists their CHILD (common) nodes submitted to them. These nodes must have a capable Internet connection and at least 128M RAM. A modern processor is highly recommended as well.
INDEX nodes keep lists of available search nodes, collect statistics, and try to maintain the structure of the network.
Enhancements:
- fixed escaping
- dont start a source search when a transfer is started
- recycle upload slots
- fixed daemon autostart mode
- Languages added: hr, ms, fr, cs, az, sk, pt, sr, sv
WhereIsM13 1.5
WhereIsM13 is a free Java application designed to help us break out of our habitual way of perceiving the night sky. more>>
It does this by displaying the common Messier objects in their three dimensional positions within or around the Milky Way.
Note: A more advanced version of this application is in the works. It will have:
- A more extensive object catalog
- The ability to zoom in and out of the galaxy view
- The ability to click objects plotted in the galaxy view to display their names and statics
- Printing
- Many other enhancements
galng.tcl 1.5.10
galng.tcl is a report viewer/tool for the Galaxy game. more>>
galng.tcl is a report viewer/tool for the the Galaxy play by email game, primarily for the NG variant.
Now it is usable for playing GalaxyNG. galng.tcl can run, load report, show info from it, have ship designer, have battlesim (which can work with internal simulator from galaxyMapper or with external WOPR tool; you can get it there).
Also it have animated battleviewer (new in 1.5.10) and can send commands to server via internal smtp sender. I plan to support Galaxy PLUS reports, but for now it is in unusable state.
Enhancements:
- battleviewer created
- G+ report handling improved in next iteration
- report now displayed with fixed font
- notes saved implicitly
Avadan 0.19a
Avadan is a rogue-like role-playing game situated in space. more>>
The player travels from planet to planet in order to find the mystical oracles. The player is placed in nethack-style dungeons. The whole game is rogue-like, but with the extension of space travels.
The dungeons are shown with tile graphics, and space looks a bit better. On space stations, the player can talk to NPCs, get quests, and trade artifacts found in the dungeons.
To execute the game, you have to open and run the project with Gambas (>= 0.19.20). The finished version will include a binary with all source and data in one big file, so then youll still need gambas for execution, but the game can be started itself; you dont need to use the Gambas IDE.
To see how it works, you should stay in galaxy sector 2-3, fly to the stations entry (with cursor keys), press "d" to dock and then "l" to land on the planet. There you can discover a nethack-style dungeon, slash monsters, collect treasures and so on. The goal is to reach the oracle in dungeon level 10. Press "t" to talk to traders and the oracle. Press "F1" in every stage of the game to get help (esp. about the meaning of keys).
Enhancements:
- added magic weapons
- scrolls can be read (used)
- rearranged some parts of the code
- chests can be traps
- added oracles (essential for win the game, on dungen level 10)
- made enemies stronger
- added enemies for dungeon levels 5-10
Chaotic Domain 0.0.0pre2
Chaotic Domain project is a combination of all strategy games with a new look on steroids. more>>
Chaotic Domain aims to revolutionize the RTS industry. Made up a team of "elite gamers" (not to mention great programmers and 3D modelers) were combining the greatest features we like in other strategy games, fixes for some of the "annoying" parts of those games, and many new ideas of our own.
With a full 3D galaxy that allows you to micro- or macro-manage and very customizable games, it should appeal to every user.
Enhancements:
- Galaxy client
- Galaxy server
- Brand new network protocol with custom-built serialization
- Generator for network protocol
- 3d engine
- Stone age tech tree
- Beginnings of the "simple client"
Space Commander 0.4
Space Commander is a game that aims to be similar to Elite and Privateer, with maybe a bit of Trade Wars thrown in. more>>
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.
ZoIP 0.2.1
ZoIP is a bridge between telephony and text adventure for Asterisk and Infocom games. more>>
ZoIP is a Rezrov Z-Machine for the Asterisk PBX, allowing you to play Infocoms old interactive fictions, such as Zork and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, over the telephone using speech-to-text (sphinx2) and text-to-speech (festival).
fortune-hitchhiker 2005-06-11
fortune-hitchhiker project consists of quotes from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. more>>
"Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar
and bought most of it."
-- Zaphod in paradise.
To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory.
(possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes)
To use it, simply type:
# fortune hitchhiker