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Web 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: 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: 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: 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: apps.kde.org/pl/blinken/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Games Education Platform: Linux License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2005 Blinken – a KDE version of the Simon electronic memory game. Blinken is based on an electronic game released in 1978, which challenges players to remember sequences of increasing length. On
Read MoreWeb site: sourceforge.net/projects/blobandconquer/ Category: Games Sub-Category: Platform Platform: Linux License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2007 Blobwars II – Blob and Conquer is the second game in the Blob Wars series made by Parallel Realities. It is a 3D, third person shooter/platform game, where you once more control
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