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qFreeFax software is a GUI for fax functionality provided by French ISP Free.
Requirements:
· Qt4.2
Installation:
qmake
make
sudo make install
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Sources mirror 1 (tar.gz)

Vision-8 is a portable emulator for the old CHIP8 system. The Amiga version you can find on this page was done by Lars Malmborg. If you want to write additional drivers for Vision-8, please, contact the developer first.
Key Mappings
Most of the original CHIP8 games are programmed for a keyboard with the
following layout:
1 2 3 C
4 [...]

xtrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Unix and the X Window System. xtrs emulator includes lower case, the real time clock, hi-res graphics, serial port, parallel printer, mouse, cassette, sound and music output (requires OSS), 5″ and 8″ floppy disk drives in single and double density, and even hard disk drives.
The [...]

XZip is an X interface for text adventures.
XZip is a clean X Windows interface to games written in Infocom’s Z-code game format. It handles Z-code versions 1 through 5 and version 8. It is free.
The interface is heavily (well, completely) based on ATK, an X toolkit developed at CMU. Really, I would have preferred to [...]

ZX81 / TS1000 Emulator is a ZX81 emulator for VGA PCs running Linux.
z81 is a Sinclair ZX81 (also known as the Timex TS1000) emulator. It
uses svgalib. It supports most programs and games, with the big
exceptions being games using interrupt handlers. It supports the
pseudo-hi-res mode. It saves and loads programs in Xtender’s .P
format, but should be [...]

ZxLink is a multipurpose utility that lets you hook up your ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair) to an Unix machine. It is intended for those who prefer “the real thing” instead of emulators. Exchange of Spectrum programs via Internet is easier today than on the ancient times. ZxLink will [...]

pSX project is an easy to use Playstation 1 emulator in binary form.
A Playstation 1 emulator that does NOT use plugins. The emulator is completely self contained.
pSX emulator has been designed to be as easy and unobtrusive to use as possible – in most cases you will not need to configure anything to use it [...]

GNOME Video Arcade is a simple xmame front-end for the GNOME Desktop Environment.
Just getting this project off the ground. I’m hoping to create a simple and easy-to-use xmame front-end that is not just another mame32 clone.
This project is aimed at casual gamers like myself that just want to play classic arcade games on their desktop.
Requirements:
· [...]

FBZX is a Sinclair Spectrum emulator, designed to work at full screen using the FrameBuffer.
Here are some key features of “FBZX”:
· emulates acurately the Original spectrum (both issue 2 and issue 3), the classic 128K, the Amstrad Plus 2 and the Amstrad Plus 2A. This include screen, keyboard and sound (both speaker and AY-3-8912 chip).
· [...]

plus4emu is a portable emulator of the Commodore Plus/4 computer. It supports Windows and POSIX platforms (32 bit Windows and 32 and 64 bit Linux have been tested).
The project implements accurate, high quality hardware emulation, but the system requirements are higher than that of most other emulators.
What’s New in This Release:
· This release implements Lua [...]