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Aliens are hungry for Ufo Tofu! Make symbol palindromes on a Bejeweld-like board. Snake your cursor around the field to find mirrored patterns. Be careful, though, as the aliens will eat the first palindrome you show them, even if it's shorter than intended.

A trio of rocks are playing instruments at a concert, they're playing rock music (or as close as you can get to it on the Atari 2600.) Pressing the fire button will switch the game from the title screen to the main game. In the game, rocks are falling onto your keyboard. Your job is to pick them up and put them into the tray below. But don't even touch the red hot rocks, they'll burn you. But since I just started this earlier today, there are no rocks to pick up yet. But you can move the arm and hand around. Pressing the fire button in the game will pick up rocks. Hold on to the rocks with the fire button and then drop them into the tray below by letting go of the fire button.

fMSX is an MSX home computer emulator. It will run software written for MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ computers. Before running fMSX, make sure you place the following MSX system ROMs onto your SD card: MSX.ROM MSX2.ROM MSX2EXT.ROM DISK.ROM.

Speccy is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer emulator, but also emulates a Sam Coupe. It will run software written for Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A, +3, Timex Sinclair, Pentagon, and Skorpion home computers.

Alite is a fan port of the classic Elite from the 80s by Philipp Bouillon. Specifically, Alite focuses on the Amiga version.

ptitSeb ported PPSSPP to the OpenPandora handheld. PPSSPP is an open source project, licensed under the GPL 2.0 (or later).

TinTin++, aka tt++, is a free MUD client for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. The Windows port named WinTin++ (using the PuTTY derived mintty terminal) is available for those who do not use Cygwin (A Linux/Unix emulator for Windows) and runs on Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Besides MUDs, TinTin++ also works well with MUSH, Rogue, BBS, and Linux servers.

Simsu is a basic Sudoku game. You can switch between filling in notes (pencil mode), or filling in answers (pen mode). To make it easier to see where to place numbers, you can highlight all instances of a number. You can also check your answers for correctness while playing. The game stores your current notes and answers, so that you can pick up where you left off the next time you play. Ported to Pandora by magic_sam.

SDL-Ball is a free/open source brick-breaking game with pretty graphics. It is written in C++ using SDL and OpenGL.

HyperRogue by Zeno Rogue Games is a roguelike set on a hyperbolic plane. You don't need to know what hyperbolic plane is to have fun with it. You can explore 28 lands, each with its own unique monsters, terrain, and treasure. The game has emphasis on tactics, exploration, and unique presentation. Ported to Pandora by mcobit.