Projects

ScummVM

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never ... [More] designed! ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so c [Less]

Observation Manager

Observation Manager is a free and open logbook for (amateur-) astronomical observations. It's written in pure Java and runs on every plattform supporting Java 1.4 or higher. All logbook entries made in Observation Manager are stored in the free and open OpenAstronomyLog XML Schema. Log your ... [More] observations and make sure next time you're searching for an celestial object you can make benefit of your past observations! Observation Manager comes with four catalogs of astronomical objects (Messier, NGC, IC, Caldwell, Solar system, GCVS 4.0) and if you miss an object, just add your own entry! Some features of Observation Manager: - Full compatible with 2.0 format - Written in pure Java (runs on many platforms) - FITS Image support - Export data to HTML - Run statistics [Less]

OpenBib

OpenBib is a next generation discovery infrastructure for libraries. On the frontend side it features RSS feeds, mashups, tagging, tag clouds, use analyses, drilldowns as well as catalogue enrichment and much more. Many of its services are exposed to be mashed up in external web applications. ... [More] A lot of different data sources - ranging from library catalogues to collections to OAI repositories - can be imported in its local data store (mySQL database + Xapian search engine). Any combination of these data sources can be exposed as a separate web portal with minimum work using OO inheritance of templates on different abstraction levels. As a use case see the union catalogue of the University of Colgone, Germany: http://kug.ub.uni-koeln.de/ [Less]