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Web site: www.techfirm.co.jp/~masaoki/xshisen.html (not active) Category: Games Sub-Category: Board, Strategy Platform: Linux License: BSD Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: November 4, 1995 XShisen – a puzzle game for X11. Similar to the famous “Shang-hai”, your objective is to remove all the pieces on the board. XShisen requires a pointing device
Read MoreWeb site: mrob.com/pub/xapple2/index.html Category: Machine Emulators Platform: Linux, Unix-like License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 1994 xapple2 – a 64k Apple ][+ and 128k Apple //e computer. To use the emulator you need to acquire the original ][+ and //e ROM files which are not distributed due to
Read MoreWeb site: nestra.linuxgames.com (not active) Category: Emulators Platform: Linux License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: unknown NEStra – a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, which uses x86 assembly language optimizations and code translation to achieve fast emulation with relatively modest CPU requirements. Emulation speed can be adjusted by pressing
Read MoreWeb site: apps.kde.org/pl/kshisen/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Board, Strategy Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, Android License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2009 KShisen – a Shisen-Sho game where the player removes adjascent pairs of Mahjongg tiles to clear the board. This package is part of the KDE games module.
Read MoreWeb site: www.linux-games.com/black-box/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Puzzle Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, BeOS, Solaris, MorphOS, Amiga OS License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: unknown Black-Box – a puzzle like board game created by Karl Bartle, and available for Linux, Windws and Unix-like platforms. There’s a black box. You
Read MoreWeb site: www.lcdf.org/xmahjongg/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Board, Cards Platform: Linux, Unix-like License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 1998 Xmahjongg – a social game that originated in China thousands of years ago. Four players, named after the four winds, take tiles from a wall in turn. The best tiles
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