Toy

Amor MD2 project is a fun program to display Quake2 characters on your desktop. amorMD2, "Amusing Misuse of Resources - MD2" reads Quake 2 character files and makes them dance around your desktop for your amusement. It will run on any Posix system which has KDE/Qt installed (i.e., most Linux...

Kommando is a "Neverwinter Nights" like wheelmenu for KDE. Kommando allows rapid access to user defined applications and shell commands and is of course a nice toy to show off with. NOTE: Works best with a spare mousebutton and imwheel. Whats New in This Release: - added a "add menu from...

R2cl compiler is a minimal, proof of concept translator from the R or S language into Common Lisp. An increase in speed of over 1000 times can then be achieved using the free CMU Common Lisp native code compiler on the resulting code, making it comparable to FORTRAN, Ada or C. Installation:...


Platforms: *nix

Fnord is a Linux distribution designed to be built from source and maintained manually. This allows the administrator maximum control over the system. Unlike other built-from source systems, Fnord is not a toy; it is intended as a production Linux system (in fact, Fnord has been running on all...


Platforms: *nix

Visprint project makes fractal fingerprint png images based on the contents of any file. The image will be different for almost every file with even slightly different contents. Visprint uses the IFS fractal generation process, pioneered by Michael Barnsley. It is a way to create images which are...


Platforms: *nix

IP-Atlas tries to plot your location or any other host on the internet using the NetGeo data. It finds the latitude and longitude coordinates of the host and plots it on an image for you.It finds the latitude and longitude coordinates of the host and plots it on an image for you. You can try the...


Platforms: *nix

nzbperl is a newsreader utility that can process an nzb file, autodecode, and do bandwidth throttling. Run Linux (or OSX or Windows)? Need a multi-connection newsreader utility that can process an nzb file and autodecode and even do bandwidth throttling? Youve come to the right place. I...


Platforms: *nix

wmblob shows some blobs moving around. wmblob does nothing useful, its just a toy. Ill be honest with you. the truth is: wmblob is a totally useless program. But unlike other totally useless programs (I wont name them here, because theyre made by an enormous and rich company), it looks good and...


Platforms: *nix

Decomp is a sorta complete decompiler. It supports (more or less) ELF32, ELF64, PE, NE, MZ, and COM executables on the IA-32 architecture (x86). Itll tell you it also supports the Alpha, but dont believe it. The generated code cant be recompiled so it isnt terribly useful, but its a great toy...


Platforms: *nix

WySQL is a CLI-like web console interface, written in PHP4, for remote database management when telnet/ssh is not available. It also includes a web/sql toolset Supports multiple dbms (currently MySQL and PostgeSQL) and features history and playback of previous commands and scripts. DBMS,...


Platforms: *nix

Fishkill is a minimalist functional programming language. Some might call it a toy language. The project is based entirely on pattern matching of function arguments. There are no data types (or you might say there is a single data type). Instead, arbitrary constructors can be defined by just...


Platforms: *nix

Pyro stands for Python Robotics. The goal of the project is to provide a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware. That is not to say that Pyro is just a toy....


Platforms: *nix

Finance::BDT is a Perl module that implements BDT yield curve model. SYNOPSIS use Finance::BDT; use Data::Dumper my @y = (0, 0.0283, 0.029, 0.0322, 0.0401, 0.0435, 0.0464, 0.0508, 0.0512); ## YTM on strips my $vol = 0.20; ## constant volatility my $epsilon = 0.01; my ($r, $d, $A) =...


Platforms: *nix

PerlActor is a simple automated executable acceptance test framework for Perl. PerlActor is a simple automated executable acceptance test framework for Perl. It can be used by Extreme Programming (XP) teams to rapidly develop executable acceptance tests for their Perl code. XP mandates that...


Platforms: *nix

Flex is a Fast Lexical Analyzer. Flex is a fast lexical analyzer generator. It is a tool for generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text. Flex is a non-GNU free implementation of the well known Lex program. Flex is a tool for generating scanners: programs which recognized...


Platforms: *nix

FractalTrees X is a program that draws somewhat realistic silhouettes of binary trees with a fractal structure. It allows you to interactively change the properties of the tree, like the broadness, fullness, and number of branches. You can also introduce normal (gaussian) randomness into the...


Platforms: Mac

The Two Towers Screensaver contains a screensaver with shots from the upcoming Christmas 2002 movie release.


Platforms: Mac

Babelizer is a toy that humorously exposes the inadequacy of machine translation. You type in a phrase, choose a language, and the Babelizer uses the Altavista translation web site to translate between English and your chosen language until the result no longer mutates.


Platforms: Mac

Comic Book Dollhouse is an experimental toy for making and playing interactive comic books. Inspired by The Sims.


Platforms: Mac

Gaston provides interactive, stereoscopic real-time 3D rendering of 4D quaternion Julia set fractals. Show off the awesome speed of your Mac with this totally useless toy! Any rendered image can be exported to make for a nice desktop background. Gaston can also be used as a benchmark for...


Platforms: Mac