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Freely available and legal software Master List
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Games
Allegiance - Game open sourced by Microsoft (license?)
- Allegiance forums
--- Quote ---Allegiance is a MMOG providing a mix of real-time strategy and player piloted space combat. Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later open-sourced and now is maintained/developed by volunteers. Gameplay relies heavily on good teamwork and forward thinking. Players can fly a variety of craft, striving to destroy enemy team installations and protecting their own. Resource collection figures significantly in the game, since new technology can be expensive and money is usually scarce.
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OS: Windows (Versions?)
Open Source (Microsoft License)
The Battle for Wesnoth - is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
--- Quote ---The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.
200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.
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OS: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2
Open Source
BZFlag - Battlezone clone
--- Quote ---BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. The name originates from "Battle Zone capture the Flag". It runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It's one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to be developed and improved to this day. It's one of the most popular open source games ever. For more information, check out some of the reviews.
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
C-evo - Civilization style game
--- Quote ---C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows.
With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration. C-evo follows the spirit of popular turn-based strategy games from the mid 90s, but with more emphasis on powerful AI and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge.
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OS: Win95 or later
Open Source
Cube 2: - Games based on the Cube and Cube 2 game engine
--- Quote ---Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD
Open Source
Cube 2: Sauerbraten - FPS based on the Cube Engine
--- Quote ---Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Doomsday Engine
--- Quote ---Windows/Unix/Mac OS X source port of Doom, Heretic and Hexen. Lets you enjoy the original games using modern technology. Supports e.g. OpenGL, Direct3D, DirectSound3D, 3D models, unlimited framerate, high-resolution graphics, simulated radiosity.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Linux, BSD, POSIX and Mac OS X
Open Source
THE ELDER SCROLLS: ARENA™
--- Quote ---THE ELDER SCROLLS: ARENA™ (9 MB)
You can view the installation instructions here, or check the Docs folder after you run the EXE.
Minimum system requirements:
386/25 MHZ, DOS 5.0, 4MB RAM, 25MB HD Space, VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Ensoniq, Aria, Roland, SoundBlaster, Ultrasound).
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OS: DOS (FreeDOS?)
THE ELDER SCROLLS II: DAGGERFALL
--- Quote ---THE ELDER SCROLLS II: DAGGERFALL (148 MB)
You can view the installation instructions here.
Minimum system requirements:
486DX2/66 MHZ, DOS 6.0, 8MB RAM, 50MB HD Space, 256-color VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32, Pro Audio Spectrum, Ensoniq Soundscape, Gravis Ultrasound).
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OS: DOS (FreeDOS?)
Eternal Lands is a FREE MMORPG Windows, Mac, and Linux
--- Quote ---Eternal Lands is a FREE MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) currently under development. The game is now in Beta stage, but that doesn't mean it's incomplete. It's currently fully playable and we are constantly working on adding more things to do, more items to make, monsters to fight, and also improving the current systems.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
Flash based games - miscellaneous
FlightGear - is an open-source flight simulator.
--- Quote ---The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Freeciv - Civilization clone (network playable)
--- Quote ---Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization.
Players of the Civilization® series by Microprose® should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have optional modes (called rulesets) with compatible rules.
Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!
That also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something rare in games.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
FreeCol - Clone of Colonization
--- Quote ---The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). At first we'll try to make an exact clone of Colonization. The visuals will be brought up to date with more recent standards but will remain clean, simple and functional. Certain new 'features' will be implemented but the gameplay and the rules will be exactly the same as the original game. Examples of modern features are: an isometric map and multiplayer support.
This clone will be developed incrementally and result in FreeCol 1.0.0 which will be an almost exact Colonization clone. Incremental development basically means that we'll add features one at a time. This allows us to have a running program at all times and also to release an unfinished but working game once in a while.
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OS: Java
Open Source
Freedroid - Paradroid clone
--- Quote ---THE CLASSICAL FREEDROID: Freedroid is a clone of the classic game "Paradroid" on Commodore 64 with some improvements and extensions to the classic version.
In this game, you control a robot, depicted by a small white ball with a few numbers within an interstellar spaceship consisting of several decks connected by elevators.
The aim of the game is to destroy all enemy robots, depicted by small black balls with a few numbers, by either shooting them or seizing control over them by creating connections in a short subgame of electric circuits.
Development of this game is now complete. The final version came out in august 2003 and runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Sharp Zaurus and even that strange Windows wannabe of an operating system. Thanks to all who helped. Minor fixes and maintainance will of course still continue though...
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Zaurus.
Open Source
FreeOrion - Master of Orion style game
2nd Link
--- Quote ---Players take the helm of a newly-spaceborne Empire to explore and colonize the stars. Sometimes thought of as "Civilization in space," FreeOrion's design also provides for a tactical combat engine along the lines of Homeworld and the Total War series.
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OS: Win XP, Linux
Open Source
Frozen Bubble bubble bobble (?) clone
--- Quote ---Full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, a level-editor, 3 professional quality 20-channels music tracks, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
Open Source
Globulation 2 - real time strategy game
--- Quote ---Globulation 2 is an innovative Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game which reduces micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. Take a look at the screenshots or just download and try it right now. Globulation 2 is Free Software, licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source
SuperTuxKart - a 3D kart racing game
--- Quote ---Super Tux Kart is a 3D kart racing game based on TuxKart with funny characters.
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GLtronTRON lightcycle style game
--- Quote ---Well, as the name suggests, it's inspired by the movie TRON. Or more exactly, by all the games that where inspired by the movie TRON.
You steer a futuristic bike, called lightcycle. Combat takes place in a rectangular arena. Your bike leaves a trail behind, which is like a wall. The goal is to force the other players to drive into a wall. The winner is the last player alive.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS9 - OS X, Linux
Open Source
LBreakout2
--- Quote ---The successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks ...). If you are still hungry for more after that you can create your own levelsets with the integrated level editor.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Amiga OS 4, Macromedia flash (?)
Open Source
NetHack - (ASCII graphics) a single player dungeon exploration game
--- Quote ---NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems. But that's a very dry description. See the Guidebook for much more information, including the game commands.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux?
Open Source
NetRacer - a simple racing game
--- Quote ---Overview:
NetRacer is a simple racing game written to demonstrate the potential of multiplayer games over the Internet with the Commodore 64. It builds on our earlier two-player effort Artillery Duel with realtime gameplay and the addition of a server.
The game was unveiled at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club Expo 2008. Check out the Powerpoint presentation about the project and pictures of the event and setup.
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OS: Commodore 64
Neverball - miniature golf game
--- Quote ---Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.Also found here is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game using the physics and graphics of Neverball. Neverball and Neverputt are known to run under Linux, Win2K/XP, FreeBSD, and OSX. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is required. A 500MHz processor is recommended.
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Nexuiz a 3d deathmatch game Windows, Mac, and Linux
--- Quote --- Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive).The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since the release the game is still being updated and developed, currently at version 2.1 and new releases being developed.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source
Pingus - a free Lemmings clone
--- Quote ---Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for GNU/Linux and Windows covered under the GNU GPL. Pingus uses ClanLib and libxml and might also be usable on some other OSs like FreeBSD, but hasn't been tested there. Pingus is mainly developed under GNU/Linux, that's why the Windows port is sometimes a bit behind.
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Open Source
Planeshift - MMORPG
--- Quote ---PlaneShift is a Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account. There are no time limits or additional constraints. Other similar games just advertize the "free" concept to sell you premium accounts. We don't. Servers and bandwidth will be donated by sponsors.
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OS: Win2000 - WinVista, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
ScummVM - run LucasArts and other games based on the Scumm engine
--- Quote ---ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!
Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.
Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS and many more...
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OS: Windos, Linux, Mac OS X and too many others to list.
Open Source
Sokoban YASC - Yet Another Sokoban Clone Game
--- Quote ---Sokoban YASC - Yet Another Sokoban Clone - for Windows. Abundant game features, such as unlimited undo, path finding, reverse mode, and a replay mode. Good import functions, level editor, highly configurable, e.g., skinning.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP
Open Source
Space Invaders OpenGL - based on the arcade game
--- Quote ---Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up.
It is developed in OpenGL under Visual C++, and is still in development (alpha version).
It should run under Windows 98/ME/2000/XP with a 3D accelerator card and OpenGL drivers.
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Open Source
Starport: Galactic Empires massively multiplayer action strategy game
--- Quote ---The hit game Starport is now available and still 100% free to play. Be the captain of a space-ship in this fully graphical action game. Carve out a name for yourself in a multi-player world full of intrigue and strategy. Team up with other real people, or blast them out of the sky. Explore distant star systems, establish colonies on alien worlds, hunt for treasures, and try to become the most famous captain in all the galaxy!
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OS: Windows
Stella - Atari 2600 Emulator
--- Quote ---Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, however, since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such as AcornOS, AmigaOS, DOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux, OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and Windows. The development team is working hard to perfect the emulator and we hope you enjoy our effort.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, WinCE, Mac OS X, Linux
Super Star Trek
--- Quote ---Super Star Trek is quite possibly the best of the "Star Trek" games from the 1970's. Of course, it does not make use of graphics, or even assume a video display, but it still an interesting game to play, particularly for those of us who don't have the reflexes we used to and prefer a more cerebral computer game.
Of course, Star Trek and it's characters are trademarks of Paramount Studios, Inc. And just like the original game, written by Star Trek fans who were also the, back then, rare breed of computer geek, isn't used with permission but with admiration of the show.
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OS: Windows (console), Mac OS X, Linux
Note: The page works but the download links don't. I have copies and will be setting them up for download soon.
Open Source
SuperTuxKart - a 3D kart racing game
--- Quote ---Super Tux Kart is a 3D kart racing game based on TuxKart with funny characters.
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The TA Spring Project- Total Annihalation clone
--- Quote ---Spring is a project to create the best RTS ever (no joke). There are three principle goals which we hope to achieve.
1. Reach a stage where TA Spring can flawlessly execute most of Total Annihilation's original gameplay, with its original units in their original format.
2. Add new features as we see fit, fix bugs, and release new versions when we feel it is appropriate to do so.
3. Support the mod community as we see fit.
4. Improving the already fine original TA Interface in a way that the Players will have more tatctical Options, more Control, more Comfort and still don`t get lost, as long as they are willing to learn.
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OS: Windows, Linux (Requires Total Annihalation still)
Open Source
Thunder&Lightning - a futuristic 3D action flight simulator and realtime strategy game
--- Quote ---Thunder&Lightning is a futuristic action flight simulator and realtime strategy game that takes place in a large 3D environment. Jump into the pilot seat of your Lightning aircraft and fight against Thunder tanks in a fierce battle for control of the island!
Apart from flight simulators, Thunder&Lightning takes inspiration from (but is not a clone or remake of) the 80's classic Carrier Command. This means that you will find yourself in control of a futuristic carrier with aircraft and amphibious tanks at your disposal. In the long run, there will be multiple Islands to conquer, each with its own defense strategy.
Although Thunder&Lightning already supports missions, it aims to be an open-ended game with a dynamically developing world with scripted events on some occasions.
Thunder&Lightning is released under the GNU General Public License.
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OS: Win2000 - WinVista, Linux
Open Source
TrueCombat:Elite
--- Quote ---"TC:E is a modern world total conversion modification of the free, popular, stand-alone third-person shooter Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. That is, TC:E is an entirely free game, made by gamers, for gamers.
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--- Quote ---TrueCombat:Elite (TC:E) is a realistic first person shooter set against the backdrop of modern urban warfare. The player can expect thrilling shootouts, an emphasis on tactical team play, engaging close quarter fighting and some of the best weapons of modern warfare.
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Note: This game requires the earlier Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory to install.
OS: Windows
UFO: ALIEN INVASION - strategy game
--- Quote --- UFO: ALIEN INVASION is a strategy game featuring tactical combat against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this very moment. You are in command of a small special unit which has been founded to face the alien strike force. To be successful on the long run, you will also have to have a research team study the aliens and their technologies in order to learn as much as possible about their technology, their goals and the aliens themselves.
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OS: Windows, Linux
Note: Based on Quake 2 engine (modified)
Open Source?
VegaStrike - game
Vega Strike Mod - Privateer - Wing Commander Privateer clone
--- Quote ---A 3D Space Simulator that allows you to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
WinUAE - Amiga Emulator
--- Quote ---Windows port of the UAE Amiga Emulator
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OS: Windows (DirectX 8+)
Xultris - tetris for firefox
--- Quote ---Xultris is a Firefox extension developed by mackers that brings Tetris addiction to your favorite browser. Once installed you start it via the Tools (?) menu with options to start a single or two player game, display a background image and a grid to help guide the tetraminoes as they fall.
Like in the original Tetris you can set a starting level and add some junk to the base for additional difficulty.
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OS: Firefox
101 Free Games
OS: Win95 - Win XP
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Miscellaneous
Asterisk® - the Open Source PBX!
--- Quote ---Asterisk
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
Features
Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response and Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, SIP and H.323 (as both client and gateway). Check the Features section for a more complete list.
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OS: Mac OS X, Linux, BSD Unix variants
Open Source
CCS64 - A Commodore 64 Emulator
--- Quote ---CCS64 is a Commodore 64 Emulator for PC and also in the future other platforms. It was developed by me, Per Hĺkan Sundell, as my Master Thesis at my university in 1995 and have been expanded a lot since then. My personal interest in the C64 has been very intensive since 1983 when I was spending nearly all my time with it, and I was deeply involved in the so called "Scene". When I later in 1987 bought my Amiga 500, I missed the old good times I had with my C64 and since then I have tried my very best to make all the old programs to work on my new machines. One of my first attempts was to resurrect the old C64 music, the famous SID chip. In 1990 I and Ron Birk released a demo called "100 most remembered C64 tunes" which was very popular, and in 1991 we released the very first tool for Amiga called "PlaySID" which later inspired a lot of similar programs on other platforms.
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OS: Win98 - WinVista
Free Clipart
--- Quote ---To use our free clip art, please save and upload them to your server space and
give us credit due for our work by linking back to "Free Gifs & Animations". Thank You.
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Free-Clipart.Com
--- Quote ---Welcome to Free-Clipart.Com! Use these sources to enhance any Web site, presentation or printed material. Project a professional image with icons, lines, clip art, banners, borders, buttons, animations, bars and backgrounds. Browse, download and enjoy! Just be sure to use the images as the artists intended.
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FreePBX Configuration tool for Asterisk (see above)
--- Quote ---FreePBX is a standardized implementation of Asterisk is based around a web-based configuration interface and other tools.
Note: 2.1.2 has had some significant security vulnerabilities removed. All users of AMP or FreePBX are advised to update to 2.1.2 as soon as possible.
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Open Source
OpenPBX.org
--- Quote ---About the project:
OpenPBX.org is an open Source Private Branch Exchange System (PBX) in software for the Linux Operating system. OpenPBX.org is licenesd under the GNU General Public License or GPL.
Goals:
The goal of the project is to produce a free Software PBX that will be highly robust and stable, featureful, and easy to use and deploy. We will build a positive and forward-thinking community around OpenPBX.org to support it and carry it forward.
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OS: Linux
Open Source
Plone - a content management framework
--- Quote ---Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don't need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.
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--- Quote ---Available in over 35 languages, Plone was designed from the ground up for multilingual content management. It handles Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris
Open Source
PortableApps.com Useful programs usable from thumbdrive
--- Quote ---Convenient
Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.
Open
PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.
Free
The Portable Apps Suite™ is free. It contains no spyware. There are no advertisements. It isn't a limited or trial version. There is no additional hardware or software to buy. You don't even have to give out your email address. It's 100% free to use, free to copy and free to share.
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OS: Win2000 - WinVista, Wine
Open Source
Virtual Dimension - a virtual desktop
--- Quote ---So, first of all, what is a virtual desktop? Simply said, a "desktop" is what you see when you run windows: the actual windows desktop, with the icons on it; some open windows; some minimized windows. The main goal of the project is thus to allow working with only some of the applications visible at a time. Later, some other windows may be visible. The program thus allows to have a few set of applications/windows, where you can simply choose which group is visible, and switch between one group or the other.
Now, one may ask what is the interest of such a thing ? Well, this is quite simple. If you only have a few windows open at any time, I guess there isn't much interest. However, if you are working with lots of applications, you desktop can easily become overcrowded: you lose time finding your windows, taskbar buttons are too small for you to read the text and find the right window, using drag and drop becomes a nightmare... The solution is Virtual Dimension.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Open Source
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Networking
Samba - Networking software
--- Quote ---Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example, UNIX, Linux, IBM System 390, OpenVMS, and other operating systems. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server. When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, OS/2
Open Source
Virtual Server 2005 - R2 Enterprise Edition for Free
OS: Windows XP
WinTC - Traffic Controller is an NT service program that controls outbound network bandwidth.
OS: Win NT
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Office Software
AbiWord - Word Processor
--- Quote ---AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
Antiword - MS Word reader
--- Quote ---Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. There are ports to FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus PDA, MorphOS, Tru64/OSF, Minix, Solaris and DOS. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript TM.
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OS: Linux, RisCOS, BSD and Mac OS X
Open Source
GnuCash - personal and small-business financial-accounting software
--- Quote ---GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
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OS: Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Gnumeric - spreadsheet
--- Quote ---The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Lotus Symphony - Office suite
--- Quote ---IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Must register
MySQL - database
--- Quote ---MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, BSD
The OpenCD - windows software collection
--- Quote ---TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation. We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience. Read more about TheOpenCD.
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OS: Windows
Open Source
OpenDisc - windows software collection
--- Quote ---Collection of free software on CD. Similar to The OpenCD.
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OS: Windows
Open Source
Openoffice. org - Office Suite
--- Quote ---OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris
Open Source
Oracle - Database 10g Express Edition
--- Quote --- Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Oracle Database XE is a great starter database for:
* Developers working on PHP, Java, .NET, XML, and Open Source applications
* DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment
* Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a starter database to distribute free of charge
* Educational institutions and students who need a free database for their curriculum
With Oracle Database XE, you can now develop and deploy applications with a powerful, proven, industry-leading infrastructure, and then upgrade when necessary without costly and complex migrations. Read what users say about Oracle Database XE.
Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any number of CPUs (one database per machine), but XE will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one CPU on the host machine.
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OS: Windows, Linux
PDFCreator - Sets up as a printer and allows any program that can print create a PDF.
--- Quote ---PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.
Key Features:
* Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
* Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
* Send generated files via eMail
* Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
* AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
* Merge multiple files into one PDF
* Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
* Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
* And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
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OS: Windows
Open Source
PDFSam - PDF splitter and joiner.
--- Quote ---Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Join PDFs together, split them apart and pull out individual pages with pdfsam, an open-source, Java-based cross-platform tool that's a free download. The program, just released in a 1.0 alpha, does basic PDF manipulation pretty quickly, and job processes can be saved for common tasks. As with the OS X-native Combine PDFs, it's a handy tool to tuck away for when you need it, like pulling relevant chapters out of a manual or textbook. Pdfsam is a free download and works wherever Java can, but a Windows installation tool is available.
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OS: Java
Scribus - Desktop Publishing
--- Quote ---Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
Tesseract - OCR
--- Quote ---A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
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Note: This product was "dead" for a number of years and has not been reanimated for very long so it is behind the times.
OS: ?
Open Source
WordPress - is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform
--- Quote ---WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
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OS: None. Needs PHP, MySQL and Apache
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Programming tools and source code
AntiCutAndPaste
--- Quote ---About:
AntiCutAndPaste is designed to search for text fragments that have been copied and pasted in programming language source code or plain text. It has been tested on sources from large C++, Pascal, Java, and C# (Mono) projects. The algorithms used are very fast and can handle up to three million C++ code lines in one minute. Minor modifications of code are ignored during the search. Reports are sorted conveniently by the total size of all similar fragments and there are many report customization options.
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OS: Windows, Linux, BSD
ClanLib - cross platform C++ framework
--- Quote ---ClanLib is a cross platform C++ framework. Essentially the library offers a series of different functionality under a streamlined API. Its primary focus is on games, although its not limited for that usage only.
Rough Overview of ClanLib Functionality
* Supports Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
* Basic cross platform runtime (threading, file I/O, etc.)
* Template based C++ signal library (type-safe callbacks / delegates)
* Integrated resource management
* Sound mixer supporting wav, mikmod formats (mod/s3m/xm/..), ogg vorbis
* XML/DOM support
* High-level 2D graphics API supporting OpenGL and SDL as render targets
* Batch rendering engine giving maximum performance when rendering 2D with OpenGL
* 2D collision detection
* 2D sprite animation support
* Highly customizable GUI framework
* Network library with low-level to high-level interfaces
* Cross platform OpenGL 2.0 wrapper (target Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X at the same time)
* Full reference manual and many overviews which goes in detail on various topics in clanlib
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OS: Windows (OGL), Mac, Linux
Open Source
Crystal Space - portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++
--- Quote ---Crystal Space is a free (LGPL) and portable 3D Game Development Kit written in C++. It supports: true six degrees of freedom, colored lighting, lightmapped and stencil based lighting, shader support (CG, vertex programs, fragment programs, ...), mipmapping, portals, mirrors, alpha transparency, reflective surfaces, 3D sprites (frame based or with skeletal animation using cal3d animation library), procedural textures, particle systems, halos, volumetric fog, scripting (using Python, Perl, Java, or potentially other languages), 16-bit and 32-bit display support, OpenGL, and software renderer, font support (also with freetype), hierarchical transformations, physics plugin based on ODE, ... See the extensive list of features for more details.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix,
Open Source
Doxygen - Source code documentation generator tool
--- Quote ---
Source code documentation generator tool
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extend D.
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OS: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
FlashDevelop - code editor
--- Quote --- FlashDevelop is a free and open source code editor. Microsoft Windows .NET 2.0 application
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OS: Windows .NET 2.0
Open Source
FMSLogo
--- Quote ---A Logo programming environment for MS-Windows operating systems. FMSLogo (contrasted with other Logo dialects) has an easy-to-use GUI that encourages learning, especially for young children. FMSLogo was once called MSWLogo.
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OS: Windows
Open Source
FreeBASIC - MS-QuickBASIC compatible for DOS Linux and Windows
--- Quote ---FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others.
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OS: DOS, Windows, Linux
Open Source
Free Pascal - programming language
--- Quote ---Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0.
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OS: Windows,Mac OS classic, Mac OS X/Darwin, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, Netware and MorphOS
Open Source
GIT - distributed version control system
--- Quote ---Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
GLBasic - portable flexible BASIC
--- Quote ---If you are searching for an easy to learn, fast to write, and flexible language for programming games, then GLBasic is what you need.
GLBasic is so good because we actively develop it every day. Thus, we fix bugs quickly, implement new features on a daily basis. We are also enthusiastic game developers, so we know what you need!
* All you need to write high performance games
* with the easiest, most intuitive, BASIC-like language available.
* All the commands have been chosen carefully and feature consistent, logical high level syntax, which is also very easy to learn.
* Write a game once, then compile for Windows, PocketPC and Linux without changing the source code at all.
* Don't waste time that you don't have, concentrate on the essentials.
* We've written a PONG game within 30 minutes.
* A space shooter in 2 hours.
* A Boulderdash clone in 60 minutes. (Including drawing all the game graphics!)
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Open Source
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) - libraries for developing scientific software
--- Quote ---The subroutines in the GNU Scientific Library are “free software”; this means that everyone is free to use them, and to redistribute them in other free programs. The library is not in the public domain; it is copyrighted and there are conditions on its distribution. These conditions are designed to permit everything that a good cooperating citizen would want to do. What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing any version of the software that they might get from you.
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Open Source
The Irrlicht Engine - high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++
--- Quote ---The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source
MASM32 - Assembler
--- Quote ---The MASM32 SDK version 10 is a working development environment for programmers who are interested in either learning or writing 32 bit Microsoft assembler (MASM). The installation is an automated process that installs the correct directory tree structure on the local drive of your choice. Note that MASM32 will not install on a network drive. MASM32 comes with its own runtime library written fully in assembler and an extensive range of macros for improved high level emulation and faster development. It builds its own IMPORT libraries for the Windows API functions and supplies its own include files for a very large number of API functions.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP, Linux, and Mac OS X
Open Source
Microsoft .NET Framework SDK
--- Quote ---The Microsoft® .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) version 1.1 includes everything developers need to write, build, test, and deploy .NET Framework applications—documentation, samples, and command-line tools and compilers. You must install the .NET Framework Redistributable Package version 1.1 prior to installing the .NET Framework SDK.
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP
OGRE - open source real time 3D rendering engine.
--- Quote ---OGRE v1.2 [Dagon] represents the culmination of 5 years of continuous development, resulting in what is now regarded by many as the leading open source real time 3D rendering engine. OGRE is packed with features to make your development life easier, whether you're making games, architectural visualisation, simulations, or anything else which requires a top-notch 3D rendering solution.
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OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Open Source
PLIB - libraries for realtime interactive and portable applications
--- Quote ---I (and an ever increasing band of helpers) have been spending time to build a set of OpenSource (LGPL) libraries that will permit programmers to write games and other realtime interactive applications that are 100% portable across a wide range of hardware and operating systems.
PLIB includes sound effects, music, a complete 3D engine, font rendering, a simple Windowing library, a game scripting language, a GUI, networking, 3D math library and a collection of handy utility functions. All are 100% portable across nearly all modern computing platforms. What's more, it's all available on line - and completely free. Each library component is fairly independent of the others - so if you want to use SDL, GTK, GLUT, or FLTK instead of PLIB's 'PW' windowing library, you can.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix
Open Source
Quake 1-3 Source Code - open sourced by ID Software
--- Quote ---*Note: The files accessible from this page are available with varying levels of support. Demos and point releases are generally supported by the particular game's distributor. Source code, tools, and documentation are occasionally updated, but are not officially supported by id Software or the game's distributor.
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OS: Windows, Mac, Linux
Open Source
Scintilla - a free source code editing component
--- Quote --- Scintilla is a free source code editing component. It comes with complete source code and a license that permits use in any free project or commercial product.
As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. The selection margin can contain markers like those used in debuggers to indicate breakpoints and the current line. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts.
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OS: WinXP, Linux
Open Source
SCons
--- Quote ---SCons is a software construction tool--that is, a superior alternative to the classic "Make" build tool that we all know and love.
SCons is implemented as a Python script and set of modules, and SCons "configuration files" are actually executed as Python scripts. This gives SCons many powerful capabilities not found in other software build tools.
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OS: Windows and Linux
Open Source
Sharp Develop
--- Quote ---#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site. In addition, you can find the latest information and changes on #develop, as well as get in touch with the team in the forum.
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP
Visual Studio 2005 - Prerelease Software
--- Quote ---Visual Studio 2005 provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams
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OS: Win2000 - Win XP
VPatch - a free patch generator
--- Quote ---VPatch is a free patch generator which can generate small patch files which can update old versions to new versions. This means that if the old version is installed on the user system, you can patch it to the new version, and you don't have to distribute the full new version, only the much smaller patch.
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OS: Windows
Open Source
WinMerge - text file differencing and merging tool
--- Quote ---WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
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OS: Win98 - Win XP
Open Source
XBasic - Programming Language
--- Quote ---XBasic is an integrated software development environment including an advanced compiler, edit/run/debug environment, and interactive GuiDesigner.
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OS: Win95 - Win XP, Linux
Open Source
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