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Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played.
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure

DirectX support for Wine project enables DirectX 9 support for Wine, which is useful for games and 3D graphics.
DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches against Wine to implement DirectX 9. It allows modern games and 3D applications to run under Wine.
The patches include many experimental and beta features that have not yet made it into the stable Wine source tree.
The aim of the project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9 so that all games and 3D applications will run on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports.
Main features:
- Shared wined3d codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9
- Hardware non-power2 texstures
- Improved compressed texture support
- Many more texture formats supported
- Offscreen texture improvements
- Colour corrections for textures
- A tonne of bug fixes and other improvements from earlier releases
Enhancements:
- Reworked support for non-power2 textures
- Support for Vertex buffer objects
- Support for caching
- Hardware vertex shaders
- Partial tidyup of vertex declarations
- Better support for compressed textures
- Fix for texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius
- Fix for model corruption in Pirates
- Movies in Pirates
- A Fix for the lines on the landscape in Axis and Allies
- Crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data
- Numerous other performance improvements

Crazy Eddies GUI System is a free library providing windowing and widgets for graphics APIs / engines where such functionality is not natively available, or severly lacking.
The library is object orientated, written in C++, and aimed at game developers.
Enhancements:
- Added: single colour support to PropertyHelper::stringToColourRect
- Added: missing support to Irrlicht renderer for creating a texture with a given size.
- Added: Updates to renderers for D3D8.1 and D3D9 to report correct values for original size and actual texture size. (Related to Mantis ticket #45).
- Added: Support for using user defined image codec by name (using dso) or directly throught a pointer to an existing image codec.
- Added: Long property export (allows for properties containing multiple lines).
- Added: Helper methods to Window to return EventSet::Iterator and PropertySet::Iterator objects.
- Added: Reworked TabControl by zap. Mantis #82.
- Added: TabControlDemo sample. Mantis #82.
- Added: Danish language in the FontDemo sample.
- Added: Output of summary of configure results (for configure based builds)
- Added: Texture extra size information to CEGUI::Texture in order to be able to handle scaled/stretched textures within Imageset.
- Added: Texture Scaling support in IrrlichRenderer
- Removed: Empty source file CEGUIVector.cpp
- Removed: TabPane files.
- Modified: Behaviour of Editbox so that EventCharacterKey events are only marked as handled if the key press actually resulted in a change to the Editbox text string. (Related to Mantis #59)
- Modified: Replaced all getWindow with get
- Modified: Replaced all setWindow with set
- Modified: EventSet::EventIterator now known as EventSet::Iterator
- Modified: PropertySet::PropertyIterator now known as PropertySet::Iterator
- Modified: ImageCodec modules are now DynamicModule
- Modified: Falagard PropertyDim now supports a type attribute for UDim properties. Mantis #82.
- Modified: Improved TabControl imagery. Mantis #82.
- Modified: autotools makefiles now symlink the sample binaries (to avoid having to do make install). Mantis #82.
- Modified: PropertyHelper now uses snprintf instead of std::ostringstream again. Mantis #82.
- Modified: Removed static Makefile for tolua++cegui generator tool and switched to autotools style build, with enable/disable configure option, for tolua++cegui generator tool
- Modified: Moved tolua++ into its own dir, removed lua_and_tolua++
- Modified: Externalised our use of the Lua library
- Modified: premake updates
- Modified: Updated AUTHORS file.
- Modified: Remove exec file attribute on Falagard.xsd
- Modified: XMLRefSchema/Font.xsd for font rewrite
- Modified: LuaScriptModule public headers no longer need include lua.h included.
- Modified: Made a bunch of warnings go away in MSVC in the new font code.
- Modified: Deleted the remaining old msvc project files.
- Bug Fix: Clean the XMLSerialization code: remove empty autowindow
- Bug Fix: Added missing glDisable(GL_FOG); in gl renderer
- Bug Fix: Irrlicht and D3D8.1 renderer modules would keep live pointers to Texture objects that failed to fully initialise (file or size errors for example) Mantis #43.
- Bug Fix: Disable texture stages we do not use in Direct3D renderers. (Mantis #95)
- Bug Fix: Mouse cursor z value. Mantis #49
- Bug Fix: Imagset XML attribute for image file name is Imagefile and not Filename.
- Bug Fix: normal attributes use true, only properties sometimes use True.
- Bug Fix: Global default resource group was not being used by DefaultResourceProvider.
- Bug Fix: XML output from CEGUI::Image class.
- Bug Fix: Imageset scaling issue when renderer automatically scales the image #45 (this is currently a partial fix)
- Bug Fix: IrrlichtRenderer - Mouse event error. Mantis #98.
- Bug Fix: IrrlichtRenderer - size error in addQuad. Mantis #99.
- Bug Fix: IrrlichtRenderer - Sample driver had linker lib name wrong for renderer module. Mantis #100.
- Bug Fix: TinyXMLParser bug. Mantis Tracker #57
- Bug Fix: a bug in the openglrenderer cleanup related to image codec.
- Bug Fix: Install renderer module includes at the same place as in Win32 (linux / mac autotools)
- Bug Fix: OpenGL sample driver did not inject middle mouse up (injected it as down). Mantis #82.
- Bug Fix: Corrected some mistakes in the Falagard Lua bindings
- Bug Fix: Apparently in some cases OpenGLRenderer needs NOMINMAX in Win32 (Mantis #63)
- Bug Fix: FreeTypeFont did not free the font data properly, also fixes a potential infinite loop in FreeTypeFont (Mantis #60)
- Bug Fix: FairChar font texture was not power of 2 (Mantis #64)
- Bug Fix: SliderThumb incorrectly mapped in some schemes (mantis #88)
- Bug Fix: Updated Irrlicht renderer to work with 0.5.0 codebase.
- Bug Fix: some missing data
- Bug Fix: DirectX 8.1 sample driver
- Bug Fix: some missing files in the make dist command (Mantis #89)
- Bug Fix: Change the name of an enumeration value in schema Font.xsd.
- Bug Fix: Memory leak in Font.
- Bug Fix: Lua bindings was missing ImagesetManager::createImagesetFromImageFile + some missing tolua_throws modifiers

TinyLIB is an emulation layer to make all platforms look the same. TinyLIB is very small and meant for game development. TinyLIB provides a subset of GLUT/OpenGL, OpenAL, BSD sockets, and the C standard library.
Almost any platform has graphics, audio, and networking libraries. The problem is, they often have different interfaces. Windows has DirectX. Mac has Open Transport for networking. I much prefer POSIX platforms with OpenGL, OpenAL, and BSD sockets. I wanted all platforms to look like that.
I also wanted to use standard interfaces. Why invent a new interface? By using standard APIs you dont waste time learning a new API, the APIs are well documented, and plenty of example code exists. TinyLIB is minimal and gives you just enough foundation to port other libraries on top of it.
Ive ported many of the glut examples, the python interpreter, zlib, libpng, glpng, and PLIB to TinyLIB for use on my project which you can download.
Enhancements:
- supports linux,mac, and win32 and includes test programs

LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. LINGOT is easy to use, accurate, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, its configurability gives it a more general character. (Tuning another instruments has not been tested).
It looks like an analogic tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note --found automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency--, indicating that note and its frequency.
The note will be found automatically, since the program hasnt any manual function mode (indicating the note to tune manually), for mantaining its general purpose.
We recommend using the tuner in conjunction with a sound mixer for selecting the desired recording source and the signal recording levels.
Main features:
- Accurate.
- Easy to use. Just plug in your instrument and run tuner.
- Very configurable via GUI. Its possible to change any parameter while the program is running, without editing any file.
- It works in an automatic way. It isnt necessary specify the note to tune; the program guesses it.
- Its free software. It has GPL license.
- Tuning other instruments than guitars is possible. Since this program guesses the note you are playing, it can be used to tune a piano, a bass, a violin, etc.
Enhancements:
- Files have been reorganized to a more "GNU-like" structure.
- Multi-lingual support has been added.

U-Hexen project is a port of Hexen to Simple Directmedia Layer.
U-Hexen is a port of the popular 3D game, Hexen by Raven Software/Id Software, to the Simple Directmedia Layer library.
It uses an SDL mixer for sound and music. Some new menus were added for easier configuration. It works on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows.
On FreeBSD, the game can work on the console without X.
Enhancements:
- Fixed palette handling (problems with DirectX).
- Added 24 bpp surface support.
- Fixed save path on Windows.

Boycott Advance is a SDL based Gameboy Advance Emulator.
Boycott Advance/SDL is based on the BA core, with one essential difference: it uses the Simple Direct Media Library rather than the DirectX libraries. Consequently, it can be used on many different platforms, while still using the excellent BA core.
Unlike the original BA, BA/SDL doesnt have any GUI(except for the BeOS version), though for those who dislike commandline programs there are several frontends available (see download section).
Enhancements:
- Completely insync with BoyCott Advance v0.2.8;
- Incorperated the new sdlemu library;
- BoyCott Advance sdl-core is completely rewritten for use of the new sdlemu library;
- Many bugfixes and code enhancements (somewhat speedier);
- Many filter options to a total of 19(!) different SDL filters;
- Optimized OpenGL and SDL rendering options;
- And many changes which are infact to many to note!;