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Frenesia is an beautifull arcade game for Linux.

If youre a Linux user, you like intense arcade action, and youre an excellent shmup player, Frenesia just might be for you. Im not going to lie. You must have unbeatable game chops.

Frenesia is a good, fun and addictive retro arcade Linux game, a fast paced shoot em up game that will twist your body into a pretzel, turn you upside down, dribble you up and down like a basketball, THEN drop kick you until you land on your head. And youll like that!

Get your butt in gear and dodge and dance like crazy with your ship, collect bonuses, shoot aliens, and send your adrenaline levels to the sky.

Musical Note: If you can pass Level 9, youll hear a different music track.

ThinkTanks is a tank combat game designed to be a blast for the new and experienced gamer alike with lighthearted, fast paced pandemonium.
Either battling against brain-hungry bots in solo play or going head-to-head against others online, ThinkTanks has something for everyone.
Main features:
Tanks and special Weapons:
- Drive one of three tanks: light, medium and heavy. The light tank is quick, but with weaker armor. The heavy tank is an armored beast with a honkin weapon, and the medium tank is the best of both worlds. All the tanks can use weapon powerups, which give extra-special shots, and are just the thing for getting out of tight spots and racking up points. In addition to super-speed and area-effect projectiles, there are bounce back projectiles that bounce and skitter across the terrain and explode with deadly effect when they are near another tank.
Multiple Worlds:
- The richly detailed and vibrant worlds of ThinkTanks are designed to provide you with different challenges on different worlds. The rolling hills and lush valleys are great for long range sniping and dogfighting. The dark and spooky missions are harder to navigate, and you must keep your wits about you or you may get ambushed by others lurking in the shadows. The skatepark-like lava fields are great for highflying mayhem and aerial assaults. All the missions offer their own unique challenge and will provide hours of fun as you seek to refine and improve your fighting skills.
Bots:
- ThinkTanks Bots are some of the wackiest and interesting hunks of metal this side of the Crab Nebula. The cold-cunning and eagle eyes of the master HUM-Bot (and his annoying sidekick Ri-Bot) inspires fear in all. The strong and steady presence of the Bot Twins, Gul-Bot and Tom-Bot will give you a run for your money while the berserk Mal-Bot dives headlong off cliffs and runs circles around the dim-witted Gum-Bot.
Customize the experience:
- Custom Game creation and Bot Configuration allow for a true custom mission design enabling you to create custom battle scenarios. The Auto Drop Feature allows you to configure an online game and populate it with Bots who drop out when Humans join in. Password Protected Servers allow the player to keep out anyone but those they give the password to, allowing for private games with your close friends or for solo training missions. Our Child-Safe Filter can turn off player and server names and in-game chat messages, so parents can feel secure knowing their children will not be subjected to verbal abuse by "less-than-savory" characters.

H-Craft Championship looks surprisingly good for an indie racing game--after all, major publishers spend millions polishing the graphics for games of this type, and its impressive that a small team was able to produce something that looks so nice.

The game is science fictional, in that the racing vehicles are hovercraft that apparently tool along great superhighways in the sky. Also apparently, in the future, road safety is not a major concern of the authorities--perhaps the world is overpopulated and they want people to plummet to their deaths--so that failure in steering doesnt mean, as in other games, that you go off road and lose speed, but instead lose the game.

The main game mode is the championship--a series of events in which victory unlocks more tracks and vehicles. Its a single-player game--no network play--but you can record a ghost of your race and send the file to a friend, so that he can race against your best time, on the same track. Similarly, in Rival mode, up to four players can race on the same track, in succession, against the ghosts of previous contestants, so there is a form of hotseat multiplayer, in any event.

If you enjoy racing games, its well worth a look.

Euphoria is simple, flexible, and easy to learn. The project outperforms all popular interpreted languages. Complete Reference Manual included. Lots of free example programs with full source. Makes .EXE files.
Theres also a Euphoria To C Translator that gives really high speed. An easy-to-use database system is also included. The Web site has over 1200 contributed Euphoria programs with source.
Main features:
- Euphoria programs run on Windows, DOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.
- The language is flexible, powerful, and easy to learn.
- There is no waiting for compiles and links - just edit and run.
- You can create and distribute a royalty-free, stand-alone .exe file.
- Dynamic storage allocation is fundamental to Euphoria. Variables grow or shrink in size without the programmer having to worry about allocating and freeing chunks of memory. Elements of an array (Euphoria sequence) can be a dynamic mixture of different types and sizes of data.
- Euphoria provides extensive run-time error checking for: out-of-bounds subscripts, uninitialized variables, bad parameter values for library routines, illegal value assigned to a variable, and many more. If something goes wrong youll get a full error message, with a call traceback and a listing of variable values. With other languages youll typically get protection faults with useless dumps of machine registers and addresses.
- The Euphoria interpreter is more than 30 times faster than either Perl or Python, and its considerably faster than all other interpreted languages, according to the "Great Computer Language Shootout" benchmark (see demobenchbench.doc).
- If that isnt enough, theres a Euphoria To C Translator that can translate any Euphoria program to C, and boost your speed even more. Why waste time debugging hand-coded C/C++? You can easily develop a Euphoria program, and then generate the C code.
- Euphoria programs are not constrained by any 640K memory restrictions for which MS-DOS is infamous. All versions of Euphoria let you use all the memory on your system, and if that isnt enough, a swap file on disk will provide additional virtual memory.
- An integrated, easy-to-use, full-screen source-level debugger/tracer is included.
- Both an execution-count profiler, and a time profiler are available.
- There is a large and rapidly growing collection of excellent 3rd party programs and libraries, most with full source code.
- RDS has developed an extremely flexible database system (EDS) that is portable across all Euphoria platforms.
- The WIN32 implementation of Euphoria can access any WIN32 API routine, as well as C or Euphoria routines in .DLL files. A team of people has developed a Windows GUI library (Win32Lib), complete with a powerful Interactive Development Environment. You can design a user interface graphically, specify the Euphoria statements to be executed when someone clicks, and the IDE will create a complete Euphoria program for you. There are Windows Euphoria libraries for Internet access, 3-D games, and many other application areas.
- The DOS32 implementation of Euphoria on MS-DOS contains a built-in graphics library. If necessary, you can access DOS software interrupts. You can call machine-code routines. You can even set up your own hardware interrupt handlers. Many high-speed action games, complete with Sound Blaster sound effects, have been developed 100% in Euphoria, without the need for any machine code.
- The Linux and FreeBSD implementations of Euphoria let you access C routines and variables in shared libraries, for tasks ranging from graphics, to X windows GUI programming, to Internet CGI programming. The good news is, youll be programming in Euphoria, not C.
- A complete open source (Public Domain) Euphoria interpreter, written in Euphoria, is included in the download package. It can execute any Euphoria program on any platform. An optional high-performance C-coded back-end for this interpreter is available for just $79. See the Source License.

Lunar Domination is a financial strategy game that combines traditional war strategy elements with business and finances. Lunar Domination pits you against a challenging opponent in a fight for the domination of the lunar ore market. Unlike most strategy games that you are probably used to, Lunar Domination has no weapons or violence of any kind. The only weapon that is available to you in this game is your mind.
Lunar Domination is based on the concept of a market economy, and revolves around the competition between you and your opponent. In order to defeat your opponent, you must be the first to fill the ore quotas of two of the three clients in the scenario. Accomplishing this involves buying land, constructing buildings, and of course mining and selling the ore to the clients. Six different buildings with a unique approach to game economy, land management and resource management combine to create a challenging and rewarding experience.
Main features:
- Quick introductory tutorial so you can start playing in just ten minutes.
- Turn based gameplay, so you can take your time to weigh your decisions.
- Adjustable difficulty level to make the game challenging, but not too hard.
- Large and small scenarios so you can pick how long you want to play.
- Runs on most computers including laptops, 3D graphics card not required.
Installation instructions:
If your distribution is LSB compliant, the installer will create a program group and desktop shortcut for you. Otherwise you will have to create a shortcut manually, or run the game from the command line.
To run the game from the command line, you must run the shell script named "launch_lunar_domination" that is located in the games install directory. Running the executable directly will not work.
Known issues:
To run the game you must have libc version 2.4 or higher installed. Recent versions of most Linux distributions meet this requirement. If you have an older version of a distribution, an appropriate update should be available for it from its maintainers to upgrade to libc 2.4.
If you are running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, you will need to install the package "ia32-libs" if you have not done so already. This package provides support for running 32-bit applications. Other 64-bit Debian based distributions (including Debian itself) may require installation of this package as well if it was not installed by default.

Runes of Avalon is an epic puzzle game.
Lost somewhere in the mists of time, Avalons beauty and grace is threatened. The forests and vales whisper to you of a growing evil and Merlin, your master, has disappeared leaving Avalon unguarded. It is the ambitious and evil Morganna le Fay who is spreading a darkening corruption. Use the Rune Magic Merlin taught you to cleanse Avalon and rescue your master from Morgannas Tower.
Runes of Avalon is a puzzle game with a twist, match-3 mechanic that you have yet to see. Excellent music, wonderful graphics, brilliant particle effects, 8 powerful spells, 105 levels in quest, two minigames, lot of variations within a quest, total of three game modes is what you get when playing Runes of Avalon.
Main features:
- Three modes of play - Quest, Endless and Time Attack
- 105 challenging levels in quest
- 6 spells (power-ups)
- Boss levels enhancing gameplay
- Two bonus games
- Wallpapers as a rewards for completing stages
- 14 enchanting images to reveal
- Excellent mystic music & sfx
- Intriguing storyline
- Wonderful particle effects
- and more...

Space Renegades is a arcade style vertical space shooter that will give you goose bumps! Space Renegades: The Series also has several tracks of toe tapping original music to keep the action going throughout both games that are bundled in this space shooter package!

Space Renegades: The Series combines ‘Space Renegades 1’ and ‘Space Renegades 2: Ulitmatum’. By packaging these games together United Minds Games offers players hours of gameplay at an amazing low cost! But don’t expect this game to be easy, it offers players 4 levels of difficulty along with tons upgradable weapons, shields, and much more!

In Space Renegades 1, you play as a Space Ranger named Adam. The Space Ranger firm that he worked for recently lost its credibility and went out of business. He decided to be a self-employed Space Ranger, but at the same time a mob boss named Lord Art puts out a bounty on him dead or alive. Instead of protecting the galaxy he’s protecting himself from wave after wave of bounty hunters.

In Space Renegades 2: Ultimatum, you continue your quest as Adam. Impressed by Adam’s fighter skills, Lord Art wants Adam to join his gang. After refusing to join, Art kidnaps Adams family with an ultimatum for Adam to either join him or watch his family die. Help save Adam’s family by searching throughout the known galaxy.