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Ur-Quan Masters is a port of the original Star Control 2 for 3DO Consoles. The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better.

In this game the player should help a girl by name of Violet to struggle with hordes of monsters. For this purpose the various weapon, and also the special abilities of the heroine which are opening with experience can be used. In game there are elements of RPG in the form of strength-agility-vitality and derivatives. Also there is an unique feature: dynamic change of day and night.

Widelands is an open source real-time strategy game inspired by Bluebyte's Settlers II (TM). You are the chieftain of a small tribe. To grow your kingdom, you must secure resources, construct new buildings, train soldiers and wage war against your opponents. The game is playable and great fun already, but it is also still under heavy development, so do not be surprised if it crashes on you.

XBlast is a multi-player arcade game for X11. The game can be played with at least two players and up to six players. It was inspired by the video/computer game Bomberman(Dynablaster), which was to my knowledge first programmed for NEC's PC Engine/Turbo Grafx. Other (com- mercial) versions of the original game exist for IBM-PC, Atari ST, Amiga, NES, GameBoy and Super NES.

XScorch is a clone of the olden-days DOS game "Scorch". It is an extremely addictive war game where any mixture of humans and computer AIs control separate tanks (teams are possible) and attempt to blow up or arrange to blow up the other tanks on the field (which can vary from rugged, mountainous terrain to flat plains). The last tank on the field is the winner.

Xisola game follow this simple rule: Each move consists of two actions: first move your piece to an adjascent empty field (horizontal, vertical or diagonal, like the king in Chess), then take away any of the empty fields Since the number of fields decreases with every move there will be a point when one player will not have any empty fields left to move to and he loses.

XMemory is a multi player memory game. It can be played simultaneously on several X Displays, which have to be listed on the command-line. Like in the traditional memory game, the players have to find similar tiles on the table to get the tiles. The main difference to this game is, that the players really play simultaneous and therefor the whole game gets some kind of an action game.

XPenguins is a program for animating cute cartoons/animals in your root window. By default it will be penguins - they fall from the top of the screen, walk along the top of windows, up the side of windows and do various other stuff. Other themes in the base package are "Classic Penguins", reproducing XPenguins version 1.2, and "Turtles". More themes can be downloaded from the XPenguins web site

CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films. CinePaint is used for painting of background mattes and for frame-by-frame retouching of movies.

dcraw is an ANSI C program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system. It's become a standard tool within and without the Open Source world. It's small (about 3000 lines), portable (standard C libraries only), free (both "gratis" and "libre"), and when used skillfully, produces better-quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor.