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Rather than those trendy colored pixels that are all rage with the kids these days, Textmode Quake uses plain text characters for its rendering. The graphics-challenged need not feel left out any longer. Play Quake at a text terminal, in an xterm, or over a telnet session!

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Squake must already be installed and working on your system.

Someone made the amusing suggestion that I, myself, should be ported to the Sharp Zaurus. So, I did. (Since it's SDL-based, it runs on a plethora of other platforms, including desktop Linux and Windows, of course.) Watch me think about the things I love...

License: free

A Falling Sand Game is a particle toy - you can play with different 'elements', explore how they interact, and, in some reimplementations, make your own elements. It is great fun to make interactive structures, ecosystems, and toys in a Falling Sand Game.

License: unknown

This small program animates the X cursor. Any sequence of xbm bitmaps may be specified as the animation. The default "demo" sequence is a cute rotating earth. Although the docs indicate that the cursor in some X windows can be changed, I was only able to animate the cursor in the root window.

License: free

xdesktopwaves is a cellular automata setting the background of your X Windows desktop under water. Windows and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving water waves. You can even have rain and/or storm stirring up the water.

License: free

Got more CPU cycles than you know what to do with? Check this one out! Xhangglider puts one or more 3d hanggliders soaring around in your root window. It's pretty awful on my P-133 here at work, but cute nonetheless.

License: free