## cool links

### emulators I personally use
make sure to do your own research, especially with the multi-system emulators as compatibility can vary wildly between different systems (especially MAME when you venture outside arcade game territory)
check the [Emulation General Wiki](https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page) for a pretty comprehensive list and comparisons of emulators for all sorts of platforms

[86Box](https://86box.net/) (old PCs, for 8088 up to Pentium II)
[ares](https://ares-emu.net/) (multi-system)
[AzaharPlus](https://github.com/AzaharPlus/AzaharPlus/) (Nintendo 3DS)
[Dolphin](https://dolphin-emu.org/) (Nintendo GameCube/Wii)
[Flycast](https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast) (Sega Dreamcast)
[FS-UAE](https://fs-uae.net/) (Commodore Amiga)
[MAME](https://www.mamedev.org/) (multi-system is an understatement)
[mGBA](https://mgba.io/) (Game Boy/Color/Advance)
[melonDS](https://melonds.kuribo64.net/) (Nintendo DS/DSi)
[PCSX2](https://pcsx2.net/) (PlayStation 2)
[QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/) (many PC architectures)
[ScummVM](https://www.scummvm.org/) (not quite an emulator, but an interpreter for many point-and-click adventure games)

opinion: RetroArch sucks, don't use it if you can (some consoles are only well emulated in it however, like 3DO... ugh)

### games!!!!!!
[Aerofoil](https://github.com/elasota/Aerofoil) (port of Glider Pro to modern OSes)
[OpenRCT2](https://openrct2.io/) (RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation *(requires original game files!)*)
[Prism Launcher](https://prismlauncher.org/) (third party launcher for Minecraft Java)
[SuperTuxKart](https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page) ("3D arcade racer", basically Mario Kart with FOSS mascots)

### random open source things
[BadRecovery](https://github.com/BinBashBanana/badrecovery) (unenroll exploit for *most* ChromeOS devices)
[DeaDBeeF](https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/) (decent foobar2000-like music player mostly for Unix-likes)
[FreshRSS](https://freshrss.org) (RSS aggregator, meaning it saves content rather than grabbing the feeds every time you use it)
[google-book-scraper](https://github.com/shloop/google-book-scraper) (downloads publicly available images for Google Books items)
[midis2jam2](https://midis2jam2.xyz/) (remake of the original MidiJam)
[OpenMPT](https://openmpt.org/) (music tracker, backend library used in many things)
[OPNSense](https://opnsense.org/) (firewall and routing platform)
[Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/) (frontend for DNS/DHCP servers on Linux, primarily designed for network-wide DNS ad blocking)
[Remmina](https://remmina.org/) (multi-protocol remote desktop client)
[scrcpy](https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy) (mirror your Android device's screen to your PC)
[SearXNG](https://docs.searxng.org/) (search engine aggregator)
[Schism Tracker](https://schismtracker.org/) (clone of Impulse Tracker written in SDL and using OpenMPT)
[Virtual Machine Manager](https://virt-manager.org/) (provides a frontend interface for [KVM](https://linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page))

### misc links & resources
[Cover Search Engine](https://covers.musichoarders.xyz/) (search engine for album art, supports many streaming services as well as Discogs)
[Flashpoint Archive](https://flashpointarchive.org/) ("community effort to preserve games and animations from the web")
[Fractal Explorer](https://www.cesoid.com/fractal) (neat fractal generator that runs directly in the browser)
[nimi.li](https://nimi.li/) (toki pona dictionary)
[Open Scrobbler](https://openscrobbler.com/) (scrobble albums to your last.fm manually, i.e. CDs)
[play a random track from Mod Archive in your browser](https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=random)
[Sega Dreamcast game manuals](https://archive.org/details/SEGADreamcastManuals_201812/) (from the Internet Archive)
[USB4MAPLE](http://usb4maple.wikidot.com/) (Sega Dreamcast controller converter to many types of USB devices)
[VNC Resolver](https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse) ("a website dedicated to showcasing all the insecure VNCs across the world")
[WebTV HTML Elements](https://web.archive.org/web/20010202070300fw_/http://developer.webtv.net/authoring/html/Default.htm) (every HTML element WebTV boxes support)
[Vencord](https://vencord.dev/) (Discord client mod)