Myrlyn, the new graphical package management GUI for openSUSE, reaches Version 1.0 with community repositories for openSUSE Leap 16.0, configurable search mode, improved zypp history browser
🕶️ A pixelated FPS view in which the player armed with a futuristic weapon faces Dr Goldfire - himself armed, in a 3-piece suit, in a large room.
📚️ Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold is an FPS (released in 1993) in which the player is Blake Stone, an agent of the British Royal Navy in 2140, whose mission is to stop the activities of Dr. Pyrus Goldfire, an unethical geneticist and biologist who plans to invade Earth with an army of mutants. Blake Stone will also have to destroy his six highly secure STAR facilities in which Goldfire's creations are hatched. BStone is a libre, multi-platform source port of the games Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike.
🕶️ A side view of the demo delivered with the engine (called Adventure of Demo, X-Tech engine version 1.3.4, tested on my Linux PC). It's a Mario-like game, but with its own original content, and the whole thing is really neat. There are cakes to collect on and under the platform.
📚️ TheXTech is a libre and multi-platform engine (and game), allowing the creation of games similar to Super Mario Bros. It is a faithful rewriting (but in C++, and multi-platform) of the SMBX engine, a Super Mario Bros engine written by fans (in VB6, only for Windows). TheXTech will remain the "vanilla" version (the equivalent of Chocolate Doom for Doom), with gameplay faithful to SMBX, while the PGE engine (from the same authors) is an improved version (the equivalent of GZDoom for Doom). TheXTech comes with a very impressive demo, allowing you to play Super Mario Bros, in solo or multiplayer, with many levels, in windowed or full screen, with the keyboard or the gamepad. Excellent!
🕶️ A view of its UI (v.0.5.14, with a dark interface) with Windows 11 Pro installed, in an elegant interface specifying the characteristics of the virtualized system (CPU, RAM, Disk).
📚️ WinBoat is a libre tool that allows you to run Windows applications on Linux using a containerized approach in an Electron application. Windows runs as a virtual machine inside a Docker container, and the tool communicates with it using the WinBoat guest server to retrieve the data it needs from Windows. It uses FreeRDP with the Windows RemoteApp protocol to compose applications as native windows at the operating system level, providing a native experience through an elegant and intuitive interface that seamlessly integrates Windows into a Linux desktop environment. It also offers extremely simple installation of Windows under its interface.
🕶️ A view of its UI, with most of the screen showing a bird's-eye view of an industrial zone with a river running through it, upper left showing control buttons, lower right a mini-map, and lower left the buttons of a video recorder.
📚️ LinCity-NG is an improvement on Lincity, and a libre, multi-platform socio-economic simulation inspired by Simcity, whose objective is to create and develop a city. The player is the mayor of a city, and leads its expansion within budgetary, population growth, pollution and transportation constraints. He takes into account ecology, goods (availability and production), raw materials (ore, steel, coal), energy (electricity, coal with finite resources, solar and wind energy), water, services (education, health, fire-fighting, leisure). The ultimate goal is to establish a sustainable economy, or to evacuate its citizens by spaceship.
The #NeuroFedora team has changed how it packages software for users. We now prioritise software that cannot easily be installed from upstream forges (like PyPi) for inclusion as #rpm packages into
@fedora . Software that can be easily installed is tested to ensure that it functions on all the #Python versions supported by any Fedora release.
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A view of its IU (on a dark theme) in planetarium mode, with a view of the moon and its surroundings, from France in December.
KStars is a libre, multi-platform desktop planetarium and telescope preparation and piloting tool for both educators/students and amateur astronomers. It provides an accurate graphic simulation of the night sky at the desired location and time. It can display up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. It supports event scheduling, content downloading and hardware slaving (Ekos).