Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

Genius by Jiri Lebl is a general purpose calculator program similar in some aspects to BC, Matlab, Maple or Mathematica. It is useful both as a simple calculator and as a research or educational tool. The syntax is very intuitive and is designed to mimic how mathematics is usually written. GEL is the name of its extension language, it stands for Genius Extension Language, clever isn't it? In fact, many of the standard genius functions are written in GEL itself. Ported to Pandora by Kazuki.

MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. Ported to Pandora by Laurens Keek and eyecreate.

The Non Timeline is a powerful, reliable and fast modular Digital Audio Timeline arranger, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It utilizes the JACK Audio Connection Kit for inter-application audio I/O and the NTK GUI toolkit for a fast and lightweight user interface. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

8Bit Merchant by 4th Floor Development is a fun and educational game set in 70'-90'. You're Merchant who sells computer electronics. Its a mix of Hammurabi [buy/selling goods] and Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego [Educational Informatics].

Knights is a multiplayer game involving several knights who must run around a dungeon and complete various quests. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. Maintained by ekianjo.

GNURobbo is a free open source reimplementation of QXLand's Robbo for the Atari XE/XL from the late 1980s. The gameplay of the original is faithfully reproduced with a few modifications. This port is maintained by neurocyp.

Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere & was developed on Id Software's Quake III Arena Engine.

World of Padman (WoP) is an open source first-person shooter video game available in both English and German. Originally it was a modification for the game Quake III Arena titled PadMod created in the year 2004. After the source code for Quake III Arena was released, the game became standalone. The idea is based on the Padman comic strip for the magazine PlayStation Games created by the professional cartoon artist Andreas 'ENTE' (German for "Duck") Endres, who is also the man who made many of the maps included with the game in 1998. The current version runs on an enhanced version of the ioquake3 engine, which is based on the Quake III Arena engine. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Pewpewtris is an inverted Tetris by Slaeshjag: Shoot the blocks to bits before the AI fills the field!