Free smbd toys software for linux

wxSand is a Falling Sand Game is a particle toy - you can play with different elements, explore how they interact, and, in some reimplementations, make your own elements.

It is great fun to make interactive structures, ecosystems, and toys in a Falling Sand Game.

First of all, mad props go out to the original creator of this game. Great idea. I only wish I could read Japanese... Heres a link to the original, or at least as close to the original as I can find (Again, without knowing how to read Japanese.)
http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

Having wasted hours of productivity on the Java verison of the Falling Sand Game, I began to think of improvements that could be made from the original. No source was available for the original, and Java isnt my choice programming language, that I decided to start de novo with C/C++ and the cross-platform wxWidgets.

(I leave it to you Java fans out there to make your own improved Falling Sand Game.)

I tend to feel that The Falling Sand Game should be more of a Zen experience than anything else. I also belive that the game should be as cyclic as possible, so that environments can run and evolve for long periods of time. Finally, I realized the close connection of The Sand Game with the game of Life: Whereby, with a few very simple rules, and some starting conditions, you can create a very unpredictable outcome.
Of course, the original is pretty sweet. So Ive make a version with my own rules, and one with the original rules, and then one with the original rules plus some neat extra items. I have implemented many, many more interactions and elements than the original version. Discover them as you play.

Version 2 has no fire (Versions 3 & 4 do, though.) I dont like how easy it is to destroy everything. It also doesnt have any free-moving characters. I feel they distract attention from the evolution of the field.

Originally, I didnt want to make this Open Source. I think it takes away from the mysticism of the game. Those of you that are so inclined should be able to see the simple algorithm. Note the close connection with the game of Life. Also note the impossible situations, like unequalized water levels. These arent shortcomings of the game, but instead interesting artifacts of the rules of this alternate reality!

Push Puppet Toy is a computer-controlled puppet that stands to attention when a friend joins an IRC channel, and collapses when he leaves.
Push Puppet Toy project was inspired by the Availabot from Schulze and Webb (http://schulzeandwebb.com/2006/availabot/). The Availabot is a puppet guy that rises to its feet when a friend comes online on IM, and falls over when the friend disappears. Its a cool little toy, but it has 3 shortcomings:
- It doesnt exist yet
- It apparently wont work in Linux
- The puppet guy looks menacing, although I understand it will be customizable
But the Availabot is obviously only a push puppet with a servo. So its easy to make a similar device with a push puppet of your liking.
Enhancements:
- A Pidgin version of the Gaim plugin was added.

LibDS is a cross-platform library to support simple networking, threads, as well as data structures.
It allows code reuse for common data structures, such as linked lists and hash tables, as well as support for complex entities such as config files.
Currently, three of my apps use LibDS - Antinat, Boo, and XASS.
Of course, you can use libds in your own apps as well.
LibDS provides interfaces for data structures, and simple threading routines in a way that is consistent across platforms. Things like HashTables, that find their way into everything I do these days.
Enhancements:
- AutoWin Win32 build system
- Binary compatible DLL interface
- Cute self-installer
- A handful of bugfixes, and support for a select() wrapper in DSNetwork.
Todo:
Ive been toying with the idea of a C-only LibDS for use in C-only libraries; libraries are far better in C because they follow predictable symbol naming so everyone can use them.

Surumi project is a modular event-driven programming framework. It offers a generic and uniform interface.

You certainly heard of event-driven programming, but in any window system,
those events are usually bound on ``window objects and very few pre-defined
events could be chosen. Yes, I know they always give you so call ``client data
and you could carry everything by those ugly ``void-typed pointer.

Now you have another good choice, your program would be ``plug-in based,
and they are vivid module rather than those GUI toys (or gadgets), you have
any possible event type with any possible client data carried. Ah~ this is
what we called ``modular.

It originated from an idea of home theater framework ``freevo by Python
but Surumi offered more generic and uniform interface to do better jobs.
You will be very surprised about how such a flexible programming model would give you so much fun during your projects development.

It has a core event engine to dispatch every programming logics via events.
As we know that such an event-driven programming model gives the best mechanism to those response interaction via ``on-demand occasion.

When your project is decomposed into event-driven working logics, you will find how it provides the flexibility can ease the jobs and this also prevents many cases of multi-threading. Yes, you have a good opportunity to dump those annoyed threads.

Besides, this works very efficiently, very little overhead, very tiny footprint
of executable image size if you wish. Why not try it today and your program speaks to you naturally and lively amongst the codes.

Since this is a GPL project, your program would become GPL if you used Surumi. However, I am not a selfish programmer, contact me if you have any concern about GPL or you want to use this in your commercial projects. By some other possible extra service, you may have a contract deal with me and my framework.

1). You need choose either libevent or nano-X as surumis core event engine Use freshmeat.net or any other search engine to locate these source projects.

2). It supports uClibc++ and certainly you will be familiar to it if you work on uCLinux platform (a non-MMU Linux usually used in an embedded system).

3). It has a X86 emulation sample which always needs libevent. Thus, if you want to begin your programming journey, go to libevent site and retrieve the up-to-date copy.

Again, this is just a beginning, I wish you will know how this architecture
can help your application to be easier to extend.

Magnetic Poetry project is a networked magnetic poetry toy for your desktop.
Magnetic Poetry for Perl/Tk gives you a window full of draggable words with which you can satisfy your muse.
Your window is linked to a similar window on the desktop of everyone else running the program.
Enhancements:
- fixed distribution package to actually include magpo.pgp and point at the new server

Monkey Linux can be extracted to the DOS filesystem (to the FAT32 too). This is complete small ELF distribution with latest kernel on 5 diskettes. Monkey can run on this minimal HW: 386SX, 4MB RAM, 30MB on IDE HDD.
Contain X Window for any SVGA videocard, support for network, support for 3C5x9, 3c59x, 3c900, NE2000/NE1000, WD80x3 ethernet cards, ATAPI/MITSUMI CD. There is some ready-to-install packages, GCC and kernel source for compiling your own kernel too.
Main features:
- minimal Linux ELF distribution in 7.5MB archive (5 diskettes)
- Monkey is small, but is not only a toy
- contain X Window
- full network support with TCP/IP and IPX/SPX
- latest Kernel with modules
- some ready-to-install packages with usefull software
- usually Linux distributions need repartition with previous full backup. With Monkey Linux you can simply extract all the files to one directory. Linux will use MSDOS FAT as well as I think (also FAT32). This allows you to experiment with Linux everywhere you want. You do not need to know anything about fdisk, ext2, bootdisk, rootdisk, etc.
- you may install any other Linux applications
- Monkey is not really complete distribution - use Slackware, RedHat, etc. (Monkey will be probably your first step...)
- X Window Xfree 3.2 (SVGA server for Trident, Cirrus, Realtek, ...)
- Fvwm95, xterm
- editors: vi, joe (Wordstar compatibile editor)
- telnet, ssh, ftp, traceroute, nslookup, Lynx, (Netscape in the installable package)
- bootpd, bootpgw, cron
- many utilities for text procesing (awk, sed, perl, ...)
- utilities for working with IPX/SPX
- support for many filesystems

Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor for children. Tux Typing features several different types of gameplay, at a variety of difficulty levels.

Tuxtyping 2 is almost a complete rewrite! It has something for everyone no matter who or where you are! If youre a gamer it even comes with two built in easter eggs! A large amount of time was spent with four goals in mind, make the game code clean, make it easy to translate, make it more fun to play and make it a better tool for those who have the more serious side of typing in mind. Tuxtyping 2 runs better and more consistently on a larger range of machines.

Developers
Tuxtyping 2 has a brand new file structure. The code itself has undergone deep surgery. Its faster, cleaner and easier to understand!

Teachers
Teachers will find the new Tuxtyping to be a more moldable tool they can use in there classrooms. It is easier now (and will become even easier) to group the types of exercises, words and characters into a lesson! We need alot of help here, ideas for the lessons/tutorials seem to be few and far between. (tho Jess does have some good ones!) Wed still like more.

Parents
Your kids will play for more than minutes now and learning all the time! Tuxtyping has lots of new toys to play with for them! (But dont let me catch you playing after the kids go to bed!)

Kids
New game! Comet Zap! Tux is challenged with the task of protecting 9 cities! More challenging game play in all the games! Based on Tux of Math Command another Tux4Kids game.

French Danish Armenian! (hey we do them all!)
Tuxtyping is much less tedious to translate now since most on screen graphical text is generated from text files. Text in the game can be translated by editing one file. A Theming How-To is available at our internationalization center.