Free ship software for linux

Slingshot is a two dimensional, turn based simulation-strategy game set in the gravity fields of several planets. It is a highly addictive game, and never the same from round to round due to its randomly generated playing fields.

It is a deceptively simple game, the goal is to shoot the other spacecraft through the field of planets, but their gravity makes it tricky. The effects of the gravity mean that although its easy to learn how to play, and to enjoy playing, it could take a lifetime to thoroughly master.

In order to hit your opponent, you can rotate you ship to aim in any direction, and you can change the power with which your projectile is launched - the initial speed at which it flies.

This project is free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation, it is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means you are free to download, copy, modify, redistribute, disassemble, analyse or sell Slingshot under the terms of the aforementioned license. Enjoy!

Spyrit is a MUSH/MUCK/MOO client written in Python using the Qt toolkit. The project aims to be a pleasant, extensible, polished product, and to support all three major platforms.

This is a beta version, and you will probably not find it terribly useful. Features are few and far between at this point, although a lot of work has gone into ensuring that the codes core is solid and dependable, in order to make the upcoming addition of features quick and straightforward. Stay tuned! In order to run this software, you will need Python 2.4 or later; Qt 4.2 or later; and the PyQt4 bindings, with sip 4.5.1 at least (mind that one, Ubuntu doesnt ship it yet!).

The software hasnt been tested on Windows or Mac, but should work there so long as the dependencies listed above are met.

Just simply run the file spyrit.py to execute the software; it is magically packaged so as to require no installation.

HiveMind project is a services and configuration microkernel:
- Services: HiveMind services are POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) that can be easily accessed and combined. Each service ideally defines a Java interface it implements (but this is no longer mandatory). HiveMind takes care of instantiating and configuring each service just as necessary. HiveMind lets services collaborate with each other via dependency injection.
- Configuration: HiveMind allows you to provide complex configuration data to your services in a format you define. HiveMind will integrate the contributions of such data from multiple modules and convert it all into data objects for you. HiveMind configurations allow for powerful, data-driven solutions which combine seemlessly with the service architecture.
- Microkernel: HiveMind is a framework for creating applications, not an application, or even an application server, itself. The core of HiveMind is the startup logic that knows how to parse and understand the module deployment descriptors, and use that information to instantiate and initialize all those services and configurations.
In HiveMind, a service is an implementation of a Java interface. Unlike other SOAs (Service Oriented Architectures, such as a SOAP, or EJBs), HiveMind is explicitly about combining Java code within a single JVM. HiveMind uses a descriptor to describe different services, their lifecycles, and how they are combined. HiveMind takes care of thread-safe, just-in-time creation of singleton service objects so your code doesnt have to.
HiveMind represents a generous donation of code to the Apache Software Foundation by WebCT.
HiveMind originated from internal requirements for a flexible, loosely-coupled configuration management and services framework for WebCTs industry-leading flagship enterprise e-learning product, Vista.
Several individuals in WebCTs research and development team, in addition to Howard Lewis Ship, contributed to the requirements and concepts behind HiveMinds initial set of functionality. These include Martin Bayly, Diane Bennett, Bill Bilic, Michael Kerr, Prashant Nayak, Bill Richard and Ajay Sharda. HiveMind is already in use as a significant part of Vista.

fastutil extends the Java Collections Framework by providing type-specific sets, maps, lists and queues with a small memory footprint and fast access and insertion; it also includes a fast I/O API for binary and text files.
The classes implement their standard counterpart interface (e.g., Map for maps) and can be plugged into existing code. Moreover, they provide additional features (such as bidirectional iterators) that are not available in the standard classes.
Besides objects and primitive types, fastutil classes provide support for references, that is, objects that are compared using the equality operator rather than the equals() method.
The sources are generated using a C preprocessor, starting from a set of driver files. You can peek at the javadoc-generated documentation. In particular, the overview explains the design choices used in fastutil.
Installation:
InstallYou just have to install the .jar file coming with the distribution. javadoc-generated documentation and sources are included. There are also Jpackage RPMs.
Note that the jar file is huge, due to the large number of classes: if you plan to ship your own jar with some fastutil classes included, you should look at AutoJar (also available at JPackage) to extract automatically the necessary classes.
History and Motivation
fastutil came up as a necessity during the development of UbiCrawler, as we needed to manage structures with dozens of millions of items very efficiently. The same reasons led to the development of the high-performance classes of MG4J (e.g., MutableString).
Enhancements:
- New methods for reading bytes use stream bulk-read method, but with a workaround for a Java bug.

XSC project is a Star Castle clone for C++ and X11.
Most of the details are from memory and a few old video game books I have kicking around from the golden days.
This is just a fun hack that Ive been working on off and on for quite a long time. I dont have any grand plans for it, except to hack on it when I feel like it.
Its always good to have something like this available when you feel like flying around and blasting the crap out of some alien bad guy for a few minutes.
The program should build on any reasonable UNIX box with a decent C++ compiler and X libraries installed.
Some portability adjustments may be necessary depending on what variety of bogosities exist in your C++ development environment.
As of version 1.3, the code is known to compile with recent versions of g++ and Suns WorkShop C++ 5.0.
If you need to modify it to build on another platform, send me the changes and Ill try to work them into my repository.
Enhancements:
- fixes for gcc-3.2
- better physics for the ship when using non-default framerates
- handle X events more efficiently
- work around problem of autoconf random tests failing on linux

KOPS project is a two-dimensional gravitational shootyerfriend game.

This is a port from the DOS version. It features parallax scrolling with a full digital soundtrack and sound effects.

A Pentium-class processor or better is recommended.

You control your ship with five keys; thrust (move forward), turn left, turn right, fire main gun and fire special gun. Both main and special guns can be upgraded by picking up power-ups that appear around the level from time to time.

When you pick up a main gun power-up, your gun is replaced instantly. Your main gun also has unlimited ammo. If you pick up worse gun than you already had, tough luck.

Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.
Your Mission:
- Do not let ANY enemy ships get past your fighters! Each enemy ship that makes it past the bottom of the screen will attack the Chromium, and you lose a fighter.
- Use your fighters as weapons! Crash into enemies to destroy them before they can get past you.
- Strategic suicide is a powerful tactic! When the Chromium launches a new fighter, it releases a high energy burst which destroys all enemies in range.
- Self-destruct to preserve your ammunition! A double-right-click will cause your current fighter to self-destruct. Before the ship blows up, it ejects its ammunition so that the next fighter can pick it up.
Ammunition:
MACHINE GUN
Otherwise known as the pea shooter. But youll miss em when theyre gone.
ION CANNON
This gun slices through your enemies and keeps on going.
PLASMA REPEATER
Your most powerful weapon. The plasma ammunition runs out quickly, however.
Items:
BIG RED BUTTON
The ultimate weapon. Double right-click or press the 0 key twice to eject the fighters ammunition and self-destruct.
Power ups:
SHIELD REPLENISH
The penguin protects you. Grab this power up to restore shields to 100%.
Let it pass through for big points.
DAMAGE REPAIR
The penguin gives you life. Grab this power up to repair all damage to your fighter.
Let it pass through for big points.
SUPER SHIELDS / EXTRA LIFE
Restores shields to 100% and gives you temporary invulnerability.
TIP: If you let it pass through the bottom of the screen, you will be rewarded with an extra fighter.
Chromium B.S.U. command line options:
-f/--fullscreen : run in fullscreen mode
-w/--window : run in windowed mode
-v/--vidmode : mode 0 = 512 x 384
: 1 = 640 x 480
: 2 = 800 x 600
: 3 = 1024 x 768
: 4 = 1280 x 1024
-na/--noaudio : do not initialize audio