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* [Extreme Tux Racer|http://www.extremetuxracer.com/] Downhill-racing game featuring Tux
* [Flightgear|http://www.flightgear.org/] Flight simulator
* [Freeciv|http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page] empire-building strategy game
* [Freecol|http://www.freecol.org/] empire-building strategy game
-* [LincityNG|http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lincity-ng/] City-building game similar to SimCity
+* [LincityNG|http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lincity-ng/] City-building game similar to !
SimCity
Previously commercial games released as OSS; In most cases only the program code is released as OSS, 'assets' (game maps, player models, sound, etc) have been recreated by the community.
* [FreeDoom|http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/] iD's GPL-released Doom engine with community-created assets under a BSD-like license.
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* [tuxtyping|http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/]
* [anagramarama|http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/]
* [scratch|http://scratch.mit.edu/] A Free Educational programming environment from MIT. The official downloads are for Windows and Mac, but since the software is written in the squeak it's not too hard to extract the Windows version and run it under the Linux squeak interpreter.
* [alice|http://www.alice.org/] A Free Educational programming environment from CMU. Quite similar to scratch but 3D, and written in java.
+* Firefox - there are many good educational websites available, and many educational Flash or Java games available on the web. I'll have to dig through my bookmarks sometime..
-[MAME|http://mamedev.org/] An emulator for many arcade machines. Requires ROM images from an arcade machine to run.
-[Mednafen|http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/] An emulator for many portable games such as Gameboy and NES. Requires ROM images from a game cartridge to run.
+Other emulators
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[MAME|http://mamedev.org/] An emulator for many arcade machines. Requires ROM images from an arcade machine to run.
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[Mednafen|http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/] An emulator for many portable games such as Gameboy and NES. Requires ROM images from a game cartridge to run.
Rom images for MAME and Mednafen can be downloaded from the web, but in most cases they are being distributed without authorization of the copyright holder. However, there are a few games specifically developed for these emulators which are freely redistributable.
