Free universe software for linux

Universe project is a Open Source Master Of Orion-like game.

Universe is an Open-Source game which resembles Master Of Orion. It is written in Java.

The goal is to have as few arbitrary limits as possible, allowing games as large as you wish. It also supports a concept called "Schemes" which allows programmers to develop distinct rule sets and extensions.

Scum of the Universe is a space trading game that combines two genres: arcade and strategy. On one side, its a classic vertical-scrolling space shooter game. On the other side, it is an adventure and strategy. You should choose whether youll be an independent space trader, firearms smuggler, fierce freedom-fighter or something in between.

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.

Virtual Universe World Server is a component which runs as subserver of a Universe server.

The area such a worldserver can handle is limited only by the configuration the universe executes this server with.

The package offers unlimited free updates, unlimited free security-fixes

Privateer gives you the freedom to carve your own path in the Wing Commander universe. Opportunity abounds in the Gemini Sector.
Wedged between the unknown frontier and the Kilrathi Empire, Gemini is home to various competing factions with which you can choose to align yourself.
Upgrade your ship or trade it in to deal with the demands of a Privateer. Find your fortune by logging into the mission computer, or take your chances with seedy characters in bars.
Meet up with Sandoval in New Detroit, tilt back a glass with Demetria in a Munchen bar in the Tingerhoff System. Make your way as a trader, traitor, bounty hunter, or pirate. Only you can imagine what you might encounter beyond the frontier.
Enhancements:
- New Refinery, Mining Base, Kamekh, Drayman, and Orion art was added.
- The targetting system was redone and is now more like the original.
- Radar range was reduced and all ships now have 2D wireframe HUD images and damage is shown by quadrant.
- The ship dealer now also functions as he did in the original.
- The auto-light now turns off when you are close to your destination.
- When a ship that is communicating with you is destroyed, its message now gets cut off. Asteroids can now be destroyed and mined.
- The repair bot was fixed.
- Unknown ships are there for the Righteous Fire campaign.

Thousand Parsec is a 4 Xs game (eXplore, eXpand, eXterminate, eXploit) but it is different in the sense that it is designed for long games supporting universes as large as your computer can handle. (Have a quad Xeon with 4 gig of ram? Well have a couple of million systems in your universe!.

Thousand Parsec also supports long term play with players joining and leaving throughout the game. As well the tech tree is easily expandable and can be extended during the game without effecting anybody already playing (ie introduction of new technology as the game progresses).

You can choose to have highly exotic universes where the laws of physics are totally different or universes that are very similar to our own.

The game is TURN BASED, this means that clicking quickly isnt vital but strategy is.

The game should also be highly extend-able. Allowing player customisation not found in the commercial games.

Anyway we have high hopes for what TP will become. We have currently stolen a lot of ideas from Stars!, VGA Planets an XPace.

Xholon runtime framework executes applications that are event-driven or that have highly dynamic structure or behavior. Specify your models using XML and Java, or using third-party UML2 tools and MDA transformations.
To get started, read or actively work through the basic HelloWorld tutorial. Its a very simple application, but it demonstrates many of the main concepts.
For more detail on the concepts behind Xholon, you might want to read one of the papers thats been published. These describe how to model cells and other complex biological entities using tools designed for developing real-time and embedded systems.
This earlier work used Rational Rose RealTime and C++, rather than the current Java. Xholon is intended to be a runtime framework that can execute the same types of systems described in those papers, plus many more traditional non-biological event-driven systems.
The goal of the Cellontro sister project is to develop complex biological simulations using the Xholon framework. Most of the features described in the published papers have been re-implemented as Cellontro applications using Xholon.
Also have a look at the sample applications that are included with the Xholon software. These give an idea of the range of applications that can be supported by the Xholon runtime framework.
These have been employed as use cases to determine what functionality is most important in Xholon. The digital watch simulation is a good example of a Xholon application with a hierarchical state machine, developed using a UML modeling tool.
A Xholon is essentially a holon. A holon is an entity that lives within a hierarchical structure, and is both a whole and a part at the same time.
In mainstream computer science terms, a Xholon is a node in a tree. The node has a single parent, possibly one or more children, and possibly one or more siblings. A Xholon may also be an active agent able to interact in real-time with other Xholons in the tree.
In UML2 terminology, a Xholon is a structured classifier that may exist as a part within other structured classifiers, and that may in turn contain other structured classifiers as parts of itself. The result is a hierarchical containment structure, nested to an arbitrary number of levels.
As a part, a Xholon plays a specific role within another structured classifier. Xholons are UML classes that are subsequently refined using UML2 composite structure diagrams. Structured classifiers interact with each other through ports, by passing messages or by making function calls.
Using the more philosophical terminology used to describe holons, a Xholon is something that is simultaneously both a whole and a part. Since everything in the universe is a holon, then everything running within a computer application should be a Xholon. The term holon was invented by Arthur Koestler in 1967.
The Xholon Project is inspired by biological concepts. A major incentive behind the project is to build a run-time environment that is equally adapted to running simulations of biological systems, and to running more traditional real-time, embedded and other event-driven reactive systems.
Xholon applications may contain structures that are highly mutable. A Xholon is an active agent that can modify the tree structure in which it lives. It can navigate the tree to interact with any other node, it can add, delete or modify other nodes, it can exchange messages with other nodes, and it can move itself to another position within the tree.
The Xholon Project incorporates many concepts of the Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) methodology, much of which has been incorporated into UML2. At the same time, Xholon removes some of the limitations of ROOM to allow for greater flexibility, mutability and mobility of active objects.
The Xholon run-time can serve as a target for a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) transformation pipeline. MDA stresses the importance of models, and the ability to transform those models, through a series of steps, into an executing target system.
You can create your model using a UML tool such as Gentlewares Poseidon or NoMagics MagicDraw, save the model as an XMI file, transform it using XSLT (or by some other MDA means) into a Xholon model and application, and then execute the model.
Enhancements:
- UML state machine simulation capabilities have been extended, including animation, and fork, join, junction.
- Additional Agent-Based Modeling functionality is available.
- The NetLogo-like syntax has been enhanced.
- The architecture is more flexible and is ready to more fully support integration of multiple domains.
- Histograms and probability distributions are now available. Line charts update in real-time.
- Numerous other modeling, simulation, transformation, and execution features have been added.

Overgod is a 2D shooter with multiplayer support based on Allegro.
For too long has humanity been ruled by cruel and disputatious gods! Fly through the various layers of the Celestial Oversphere to unseat those who control the universe.
This is my latest game, Overgod. Its similar to my last game, Lacewing, but better in almost every way. Basically, you control a little vehicle in the middle of the screen and fly around and shoot things - a bit like asteroids, but the asteroids move independently and shoot back. You can also upgrade your vehicle in various ways.
Main features:
- Over 100 different enemies
- Lots of randomness and chaos
- Various different modes and unlockable challenges
- 1 or 2 players (splitscreen)
- Pretty low system requirements (about 300MHz is plenty, and it doesnt need any kind of fancy graphics card)
- Days of fun!
It should compile on any platform supported by Allegro. Windows and Mac binaries are provided at the moment, as is source code (its under the GPL). The links are all to sourceforge, which is a little cumbersome, but for various reasons Im releasing this through Internet cafes and the Library so thats what you get. Have fun!
(Thanks to Michael Faerber for helping with Linuxisation and pointing out bugs, and Peter Hull for helping with the Mac version and finding another bug)

Earth is under siege by the Strogg, a barbaric alien race moving through the universe consuming, recycling and annihilating any civilization in their path. In a desperate attempt to survive, an armada of Earths finest warriors is sent to take the battle to the Strogg home planet.
You are Matthew Kane, an elite member of Rhino Squad and Earths valiant invasion force. Fight alone, with your squad, or in hover tanks and mechanized walkers as you engage in a heroic mission to the heart of the Strogg war machine.
Battle through the beginning of the game as a combat marine, then after your capture, as a marine-turned-Strogg with enhanced abilities and the power to turn the tide of the war.
Built on id Softwares revolutionary DOOM 3 technology, QUAKE 4 also features fast-paced multiplayer competition modeled after the speed, feel, and style of QUAKE III Arena.
Quake 4 DEMO is released by Id Software.
Main features:
- Highly anticipated sequel to id softwares award-winning QUAKE II.
- Diversity of combat. Fight through solo missions as well as buddy and squad-based operations; or pilot heavy walkers and hover tanks through outdoor battles and epic firefights.
- Being captured and converted to Strogg becomes Earths only hope for defeating the Strogg.
- Player is not alone - he and his squad are part of a massive invasion force.
- Utilizes the industry leading DOOM 3 technology to create an unparalleled visual and aural experience.
- Arena-style multiplayer that allows players to play as Strogg or Marine in deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture-the-flag modes.
Enhancements:
- n addition to a number of new changes and updates, this 1.1 Point Release also includes the changes from update 1.0.4.0, beta 1.0.5.0 and beta 1.0.5.2. If you have not previously updated QUAKE 4, this update will bring your installation completely up to date. If you have previously installed an earlier update, this update can be installed over the earlier update(s) without problems - there is no need to re-install previous updates released through the id Software website. Doing so may adversely affect the proper functionality of your installation.