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Atmosphère
Atmosphère is a work-in-progress customized firmware for the Nintendo
Atmosphère is an open-source custom firmware platform for the Nintendo Switch that enables advanced system customization, homebrew development, and extended functionality beyond the official operating system. It replaces and modifies key components of the system software, including the bootloader, kernel modules, and system services, allowing developers to hook into and extend system behavior. The project is composed of multiple subsystems such as Fusée for bootloading, Exosphère for secure monitor customization, and Stratosphère for system module extensions. It provides a foundation for running custom applications, modifying system behavior, and experimenting with low-level features of the Switch hardware. Atmosphère is actively developed and updated to maintain compatibility with new firmware versions while improving stability and performance. It is widely used in the homebrew community as a base platform for building tools, mods, and custom applications. -
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RetroArch
RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
RetroArch is a way to run classic games on a wide assortment of Operating Systems and Consoles. Support the Developers on their Patron! https://www.patreon.com/libretro -
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AetherSX2
PlayStation 2 emulator for Android
AetherSX2 is a powerful PlayStation 2 emulator for Android that allows users to play a wide range of classic PS2 games on mobile devices. It delivers strong performance across many titles, with particularly smooth results on modern mid-range and high-end hardware. The emulator requires a PlayStation 2 BIOS file to function, which must be obtained separately from a legitimate console. AetherSX2 supports extensive customization, letting users fine-tune controls, graphics settings, and resolution to match their device and preferences. It works well with both on-screen touch controls and external controllers such as PlayStation or Xbox gamepads. With its balance of performance, flexibility, and ease of use, AetherSX2 has become one of the most popular PS2 emulators available on Android. -
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Kernelloader
Run Linux on the Playstation 2
Kernelloader is a free bootloader for PS2 Linux and other Playstation 2 operating systems. Loading can be done by "Action Replay Media Player", by "memory card exploit", by "FMCB" or any other homebrew loading method. If you downloaded the latest Linux Live DVD, you need to run the online updater to be able to play Youtube videos. -
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mcrcon
Console based rcon client for minecraft servers.
Mcrcon is IPv6 compliant minecraft rcon client with bukkit coloring support. It is well suited for remote administration and to be used as part of automated server maintenance scripts. - Does not trigger "IO: Broken pipe" or "IO: Connection reset" spam bug on server side. - Has workaround for server side bug (https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-154617) ****************************************************************** Further development and new releases has moved to Github Github page: https://github.com/Tiiffi/mcrcon Official upstream: https://github.com/Tiiffi/mcrcon/releases https://api.github.com/repos/tiiffi/mcrcon/releases/latest ****************************************************************** -
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Yabause is a portable Sega Saturn emulator.
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HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.
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BrazilFW Firewall and Router
A powerful network security tool, easy, safe and totally free.
BrazilFW is a mini Linux distribution designed to be used as a Firewall and Router that runs easily on older computers. An old PC running BrazilFW is much more powerful and efficient than commercial software for routing in offices and residences running on a "powerful" computer. BrazilFW is based on Coyote Linux, which was designed by Joshua Jackson who discontinued Coyote Linux in version 2.24 in August 2005. In that same month comes on the scene BrazilFW Firewall and Router (BFW) with version 2.24, which is led by "Claudio" and "Marcelo - Brazil", running only on floppy disks, and being 2.30.1 the last version with this support . The following versions, as well having automatic detection of network cards, only run on large capacity media, such as hard disk (HD). Versions in Development: * 2.33.x: Uses kernel 2.4.x and is developed by Marcinho Samurai. * 3.x: Uses kernel 4.x and is developed by WoshMan -
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Dolphin Emulator
GameCube and Wii emulator for PC (Windows, Mac, & Linux)
Dolphin Emulator is a powerful open-source emulator that allows PC gamers to play Nintendo GameCube and Wii games on modern hardware. It delivers a significantly enhanced experience by supporting full HD 1080p resolution and higher, making classic titles look sharper than ever. Dolphin is known for its high compatibility, with the majority of games running perfectly or being fully playable. The emulator supports a wide range of PC controllers, including keyboards, gamepads, and original console controllers via adapters. Advanced features like turbo speed and performance optimizations allow smoother gameplay and faster load times. With an active development community and frequent updates, Dolphin continues to improve accuracy, performance, and overall user experience. -
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IMG4DC – Dreamcast Selfboot Toolkit
Generate ready-to-use disc images for your Sega Dreamcast system !
IMG4DC is a tools package containing two utilities to generate selfboot disc images for your Sega Dreamcast: cdi4dc, designed to make Padus DiscJuggler (CDI) images and mds4dc, designed to make Alcohol 120% (MDS/MDF) images. A selfboot image is a disc image format specially prepared to boot on your Dreamcast. In clear, by burning a selfboot image to a standard blank CD-R, the software containted into this disc image will run onto your Dreamcast, as a legit game disc, without any modchip or other hacking device. To use this software package, you must have mkisofs from the cdrtools project. This tool will create the ISO image needed by img4dc. If you want to learn more by the selfboot image format, click here: http://dcemulation.org/?title=Selfboot_formats -
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LEAF Linux Embedded Appliance Framework
A secure, feature-rich, customizable embedded Linux network appliance
A secure, feature-rich, customizable embedded Linux network appliance for use in a variety of network topologies. Although it can be used in other ways; its primarily used as a Internet gateway, router, firewall, and wireless access point. LEAF documentation wiki http://bering-uclibc.zetam.org -
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MicroLua DS
MicroLua brings Lua on the Nintendo DS for easy programming
MicroLua brings the programming language Lua on the Nintendo DS for easy and fast development of beautiful homebrews! Based on brunni's µLibrary, µLua is a Lua interpreter featuring fast drawings and many important functionalities. You can exploit your Nintendo DS with the simplistic yet powerful Lua language! On your cartridge, MicroLua is a NDS executable that shows as its frontend a great graphical shell from which you can explore your cartridge and run Lua scripts written for µLua. µLua already benefits from an impressive collection of homebrews, from a complete and expandable MicroLua IDE to enjoyable games, produced by an active and helpful community. -
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The PvPGN is a bnetd based gaming network server emulation project. It curently supports all Westwood Online clients (Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 1/2, Renegade, Emperor, NOX) and all Battle.Net clients (Diablo 1/2, Starcraft/Broodwar, Warcraft 2/3 ROC/TFT).
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DotNetWikiBot Framework
Make robots for MediaWiki-powered sites!
The DotNetWikiBot Framework was developed so that it can offer a helping hand with many complicated and routine tasks of wiki site development and maintenance. DotNetWikiBot Framework is a cross-platform full-featured client API, that allows you to build programs and web robots easily to manage information on MediaWiki-powered sites. DotNetWikiBot Framework can also be used for learning C# and .NET. -
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PokeMini
Portable Pokémon Mini Emulator
Portable emulator for Pokémon-Mini. Last version: 0.60 (16 June 2015) Check Wiki for platform dependencies and other information. -
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OviOS Linux
OviOS Linux
OviOS is an open source storage OS based on the Linux kernel and includes opensource software needed to create a fully functional, highly performant storage server. It supports iSCSI, NFS and SMB versions 1,2 and 3. It also supports AD integration. -
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A SEGA Dreamcast VMU backup utility that allows you to transfer your savegame files from/to your PC harddisk.
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Driver support for 3D Controller Hardware. We hope to support SDL Input, DirectInput, and other major controller API's including game consoles and embedded systems.
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dvd2xbox is a DVD/CD-R to hdd copy program for the xbox which supports the formats UDF/ISO9660/CDDA (Audio 2 Ogg ripping with freecddb naming, dvd ripping with libdvdread). It provides a simple all at once copy mode and a win commander style disc browser
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PSP Tools
Set of tools for the Sony PSP (tm).
Set of tools for the Sony PSP (tm) for fixing and testing parts of the system. -
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ZSNES Portable
ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator programmed by zsKnight and _Demo_.
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CrabEmu is a video game console emulator for Mac OS X, Sega Dreamcast, and various other *nix-like targets. Currently, development is focused upon the 8-bit consoles built by Sega, with support for the Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000 and ColecoVision. Initial support for the NES is also available.
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Sensa
Android, DOS, FirefoxOS, Linux, MacOS and Windows all in one..
Sensa is not an operating system, is a work environment compatible with Android © 4.4.4, Firefox OS ©, Linux Ubuntu 12.12 ©, MacOS Classic 7 ©, MS -DOS © operating systems, and Microsoft Windows 8.1 ©; whose distribution is free, and with source code available under GNU GPL 2.0 license .
