Free vga planets software for linux

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems, released under the GPL. The project runs on Linux and Windows, and could doubtless be ported to your favorite flavor of Unix.
Planets was originally designed for kids, in particular, for my then 4-year old nephew who is fascinated by astronomy. The user interface is aimed at being simple enough that a fairly young kid can get some joy out of it. But the adults who have used it have found it to be pretty fun as well.
The code is not bug-free, and Planets is missing some significant features. But its pretty stable and is a fun toy to play with. If you do download it, please drop me an email and tell me about your experience with it.
Main features:
- Saving and loading of universes
- Infinite undo (erase last action) and goback (return to point in time just after last action). This allows for undoing mistakes and replaying interesting configurations.
- Traces of planet trajectories
- Two ways of dealing with planet collisions:
- merges, where the colliding planets are merged into one planet, and
- bounces, where the colliding planets are bounced off each other elastically. This itself comes in two varieties:
- force bouncing, where the force between planets is made repulsive at close quarters.
- true bouncing, where simple pool-table physics calculations are made to determine when planets collide, and compute the appropriate bounce from said collision.
- kidmode, a mode where the focus is (mostly) locked on the application, and interesting changes are initiated by merely banging on the keyboard. This mode is aimed at 1-5 year olds.
- Center-of-mass following: it is possible to follow the center of mass of a subset of the planets. Thus, if you have a sun-moon-planet system, you can have the view automatically track the moon-planet pair.
- Can display kinetic, potential and total energy of the system.
- Both the gravitational constant and the gravitational exponent can be changed.
- There is a simple control panel that makes it possible to see and change the simulation options.
- Zooming, panning, and centering on the center of mass.

Blue Planet is a KDE theme defined by simplicity, usability, dark-blue colors and future look.

Its including background picture that is taken form http://www.guanajuatoenlinea.com .

For those with big resolution:

1600 x 1200 pixels background can be download here:

http://ic3.deviantart.com/images/i/2003/42/2/b/Titan_Blue___221.jpg

Iconset on this screenshots are Futurosoft icons (only changed Go! icon to Fedora default). Download it from here:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=50667

Background color of application is white due to compatibility issues (you can put black but than text isnt readable in some programs).

PlanetGenesis is a Java program designed to produce models of planets and landscapes.

A little like Mojoworld but free (as in beer and speech) and no where near as good.

PlanetGenesis produces:

- 16bit greyscale bitmaps.
- Wavefront format objects.
- POV-RAY 3.5 mesh2 meshs.
- Terragen terrains.

based on pseudo-random noise. Which can be used in 3D rendering sofware.

RSS-Planet is a custom marker file generator for xplanet which uses RSS feeds from news websites to plot the current headlines on a world map.

By default, Yahoo! News and CNN.com are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with easily-discoverable place names (such as the Washington Post) should work as well.

GNOME War Pad is VGA Planets client for GNOME 2 desktop platform. It aims to develop a full featured client, including scripting Python support.
VGA Planets is a play-by-email space conquest strategy game, it can be played by 11 players max. This game is being played by strategy fanatics all over the world for some years now, is very addictive and there are several servers on the Internet that host various kinds of this games.
Well, first of all this game is great, I thank Tim Wisseman for his creation, secondly its very cheap to register it (I think 5 USD) and if you dont want to register it, you still can play it with some limitations. Plus, because this game was developed for DOS, almost all clients existing this days are for DOS or Windows, and since Im a GNU/Linux freak, Im tired of playing VP with dosemu, its just too slow! :-)...so thats my itch, I wanna scratch it as ESR says.
Actually, there isnt a GNU/Linux client for VP that Im aware of, I know that PCCs author, Stefan Reuther from Germany, is porting his excellent client to GNU/Linux using the SDL library, this is great! but again, GNOME deserves to have its own client, so I started this project as an excuse to learn how to program for GNOME, and also to polish my C programming skills.
This software is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License, you may copy, modify it and redistribute it under the conditions of this license.
Enhancements:
- this is a major milestone in this projects development because now the player can make some real actions into the game! no more viewing-only! Enjoy!

svgalib is a low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console.

svgalib is not intended as an alternative to X for apps, but rather a set of tools for things like VGA games, image viewing in modes that X cannot support, etc.

TerraJ is a Java port of fractal terrain and simulated solar system generation programs.

The porting has included extensive refactoring, the creation of a documented API to enable reuse of parts in other programs, and extensions such as new Swing user interfaces. Full javadoc for the classes in the project is available.

The TerraJ suite currently contains the following software:

- Fracplanet - Generates fractal planets and terrains with a wide range of user controlled parameters. Has an OpenGL rendering preview using JOGL and can export to POVRay format for rendering.

- Stargen - Creates realistic planetary systems and stars using an accretion simulation. The resulting text and HTML output is template based and configurable.

- Planetary Terrain Generator - A second fractal terrain generation program. This one does not do 3D rendering but can output images using many different map projections.

- Dole Accretion - An older and slightly less complex star system generator included for reference and completeness.