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Megawords is for people who love words.

It can be used to help solve crossword puzzles and other word games, or just to play around with anagrams and find out the meanings of unusual words.

It includes a dictionary of over 400,000 words with wildcard, exact match and anagram searches, plus support for SOWPODS and TWL dictionaries.

The basic word search features can be used without an internet connection. If you have an internet connection, Megawords can also look up word definitions for the search results in online dictionaries.

phIRC is an irc client for S60 2nd and 3rd edition.

Features:

– native Symbian (not Java) application
– font face and size selection
– supports multiple irc server connections
– switchable normal/full view
– multiple channel and query windows
– different charset (UTF8, UCS-2, KOI8-R, Latin1, etc.) support
– server settings manager

Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU GPL. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems.

xrick is a clone of Rick Dangerous. Written entirely in C, it relies on the Simple DirectMedia Layer library and has been ported to Linux (its primary target). Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks and avoiding traps in places from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.

Aleph One is a game engine currently in development by the Open Source community. It is based on the source code of Marathon 2: Durandal, a game created by Bungie Software in 1995. Since Bungie released the source code, Aleph One has matured to include a variety of new features and improvements.

Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone. It features everything the original features – with better graphics, higher resolution, smoother movement and new levels.

Xe is a multi system emulator that emulates many console and handheld video game systems of the are no longer on the market.

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your computer.

The Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS), introduced in 1977, was the most popular home video game system of the early 1980’s. This emulator will run most Atari ROM images, so that you can play your favorite old Atari 2600 games in GNU/Linux.

MESS is an acronym that stands for Multiple Emulator Super System. MESS will more or less faithfully reproduce computer and console systems on a PC. MESS emulates the hardware of the systems and sometimes utilizes ROM images to load programs and games. Therefore, these systems are NOT simulations, but the actual emulations of the hardware.