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How to install FlightGear Flight Simulator on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 3, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

FlightGear is a free and open source Flight Simulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS-X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. FlightGear Flight Simulator comes with 3 primary Flight Dynamics Models and you can also add new dynamics models. Available Flight Dynamics Models are JSBSim, YASim and UIUC. It support standard 3d model formats and xml based ascii files. Some of the important features are more than 20000 real world airports, Sloping runways, accurate and detailed terrain and sky model like lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, sun, moon and stars.

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How to install Mr.Rescue fire fighting game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Mr.Rescue is a free and open source an arcade style fire fighting game for Windows, MacOS and Linux. In this game players need to rescue civilians from a burning building by picking them up and throwing them out the window. You will also get a water gun and it will help you to go way through flames in the game and collect coolants to cool down your against fire. This game is build on Love framework. Using this framework you can make 2D games in Lua. It is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 unported License.

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OpenResizer Bulk image resizer – How to install OpenResizer on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 30, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

OpenResizer is a free and open source easy to use bulk image resizer for linux and windows. Using this you can resize your images one by one or in batch very quickly. It comes with three image resizer mode Do not resize, Resize by pixel and Resize by percentage. Using this Do not resize mode you can just rename the files in bulk with same ending. Resize by pixel allows you to resize the image by using the pixel value. Third and the final option provies resize by percentage. It also comes with width and height conditions, output image quality and cpu utilization features. You can save files in jpeg, png, BMP or in original source file format

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How to install PowerShell on Ubuntu – PowerShell task automation Tool

Post last modified:September 28, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

PowerShell is a task automation command-line shell tool and scripting language from microsoft built on .NET framework and the open source version is build on .NET core and called Powershell Core. You can download and install Powershell on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. PowerShell is a very powerful tool .Using this you can manage your computer from CLI easily.

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How to install Shattered Pixel Dungeon game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 28, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a free open source pixel art type Roguelike RPG game for Android and Linux. This game is based on Pixel Dungeon game but with many new features and improvements. It comes with 4 playable characters with unique play style, randomly generated unique levels, and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use. It is released under the GPLv3 License. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a very popular game in android and it is officially available for android only. But unofficial snaps are available for Linux to install this game.

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Vidiot Video Editor Software – Install Vidiot on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:March 23, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Vidiot is a free and open source non-linear video editor for Linux and Windows. It is a simple and easy-to-use video editor for home users, with features such as video converter, video compositing, trimming, titles, key frames, transitions, speed changing,…

How to Install Gifcurry on Ubuntu – Easy GIF Maker

Post last modified:September 26, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Gifcurry is a free open-source GIF and video maker for Linux, MacOS and windows. Using Gifcurry you can edit your video and gif files and save them to GIF or video. It comes with some basic editing options like crop, trim, seek, add text in your file with your favourite font, change the duration of the video or gif file. Some other important features are changing the size, you can set the FPS, tweak the color count, enable dithering and import subtitles in your file. It is available as a GUI and CLI.You need FFmpeg, GStreamer, ImageMagick, and GTK+ installed on your machine to run Gifcurry smoothly.

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How to install Dosbox-X on Ubuntu – DOS operating system emulator

Post last modified:September 25, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Dosbox-X is a free and open source emulator software to emulates a computer running a DOS operating system. using this you can run original DOS programs, DOS PC games even though your new modern computers have dropped support for DOS. It covers all pre-2000 DOS and Windows 9x based hardwares, including peripherals, motherboards, CPUs, and all other old hardwares. Dosbox-X is a fort of popular DOS emulator DOSBox.

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How to install Ascii Patrol game on Ubuntu – Best Ascii Art Game

Post last modified:September 24, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Ascii Patrol is free open source Ascii art type game for Windows, Linux, Cygwin, DOS and web browsers. It is based on 1982’s Moon Patrol arcade game. The game can run in monochrome and 16 color mode. You can control the game using arrow keys, Enter and Escape keys. Left arrow key for brake, Right key for acceleration, up key for jump, down key for crouch and enter key for fire. Ascii Patrol is simple but additive command line game for linux with good game music and sound effects. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 license.

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How to install sdlpop Prince of Persia game on Ubuntu – sdlpop open-source port of Prince of Persia

Post last modified:September 23, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

sdlpop is a sdlpop open-source port of popular video game Prince of Persia for linux Windows and MacOS. It is based on the disassembly of the DOS version. In this game the prince must escape from dungeons and free the princess from Jaffar within 60 minutes.For this game the keyboard controls are left, right, up, down, shift, shift+left/right, home or up+left, page up or up+right.

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