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Applications and Games on GNU/Linux
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Applications
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Ruben Schade ☛ 86Box 5 has a VM manager
I’ve got a more thorough review of 86Box version 5.x pending, but for now I wanted to point out the fact the new bundled VM Manager is wonderful:
You define a new VM, and it will spawn a new 86Box session with that specific configuration. This should be familiar if you’re used to running something like VirtualBox.
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GNU ☛ libunistring @ Savannah: GNU libunistring-1.4 released
Fixed a bug: The functions u*_grapheme_next and u*_grapheme_prev did not work right for strings with Indic characters, Emojis, or regional indicators.
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Games
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Boiling Steam ☛ TGS 2025: Day 2 Report
The second day at the TGS always feels like a race. You know you need to cover this and that, and now you have a clear time bomb working against you. And to make things worse, this second business day was absolutely packed with people again. It’s almost hard to believe how many people managed to fit in there. The public days is worse, of course, and will make you fit like fish in a can.
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Hackaday ☛ NTRON Plays Games, Music
What do you get if you meld a Raspberry Pi, a chiptune synthesizer, and a case that looks like an imaginary Kenback-2000? Well, if you are [Artifextron], you get the NTRON. Part Nintendo console, part chip tune synthesizer, and part objet d’art. You can see the device do its things in the video below.
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