Oct
28th

OpenVCAD

OpenVCAD is an advanced program to 3D print objects.

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Oct
4th

C-EVO continues…

C-evo by Steffen version1.2.0 is the final release. These days C-evo is continued via the New Horizons and Distant Horizon projects who prefer to host their latest versions on their own sites. And there is more to discover… just browse the internet…

C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows.
With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration. C-evo follows the spirit of popular turn-based strategy games from the mid 90s, but with more emphasis on powerful AI and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge.

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Sep
6th

Command & Conquer 30th Anniversary Community Celebration

30 years!!!

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Aug
15th

CodeBerg (Alternative to Github)

Lately i noticed that github is owned by microsoft, and that sometime they disable or remove repositories. When the code is removed it is lost, then i found codeberg site which seems to save this repositories.

Codeberg is non-profit comunity driven owned, while Github is owned by Microsoft. it’s unlikely the programs will be deleted.

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Jul
31st

Open Source Game Clones (1282 games)

Open Source Game Clones site tries to gather open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one place.

1282 games so far, not all clones but different types:

  • 1 Game where the executable and sometimes the assets as well are remade open source. Some of these games aren’t exact remakes but evolution of original ones, which were eventually open sourced.
  • 2 Game which is very similar to or heavily inspired by a game or series.
  • 3 Project with the official source code release for a game that was formerly closed-source, maintained by the original creators and has minimal changes.
  • 4 Game which has similar gameplay but is not a clone.
  • 5 Tools that assists in playing or modding the game, such as a high resolution patch, or resource extractor.

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Jul
29th

Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence

Kimi is a free open source AI by Moonshot (Beijing-based start-up). AI that can read entire books, browse the web, write code, and act like an autonomous agent. It handles very long texts—like whole books or many files at once. It searches the web for fresh facts, writes or fixes code, and can even run tasks on its own, step by step.

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Jul
19th

PartCrafter

PartCrafter is an AI open source transforms 2D images in 3D models ready to be printed in few seconds.

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Jul
11th

Krita

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

For windows,linux and mac.

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Jul
9th

OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.

For Windows, Linux macOS and android.

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Jul
8th

Baidu release Ernie open source models

ERNIE 4.5 is designed to be powerful, flexible, and accessible to developers and researchers.

What is ERNIE 4.5?

  • A family of 10 open-source AI models created by Baidu.
  • Supports text, images, audio, and video (multimodal).
  • Uses a smart architecture called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) to improve efficiency and performance.

Key Features

  • Multimodal training: Combines text and visuals for better understanding.
  • Efficient scaling: Uses advanced techniques to train faster and cheaper.
  • Post-training customization: Models are fine-tuned for specific tasks like language or vision.

Performance Highlights

  • Beats competitors like DeepSeek and Qwen3 on many benchmarks.
  • Even smaller models perform impressively well.
  • Excels in reasoning, visual understanding, and general knowledge.

How to Use It

  • Available on GitHub, Hugging Face, and Baidu AI Studio.
  • Works with PaddlePaddle and PyTorch.
  • Includes tools for training, compressing, and deploying models.

License

  • Released under Apache 2.0, meaning it’s free for commercial use.

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