The last (official) game in the Space Quest series by Sierra, Space Quest 6: the Spinal Frontier introduces a new engine, new graphics, new plot (duh), and new other things.

The hero of the game, Roger Wilco (that's you, genious), is court martialled for crimes such as abandoning his post, disintegrating a fellow officer and doing an unauthorised sequel. He is demoted to janitor aboard the Deep Ship 86. See Space Quest 5: the Next Mutation for how he got into a position where he could be court martialled in the first place.

It's time for planet-leave on the Deep Ship 86, and the place where that will take place is Polysorbate XL. However things do not go smoothly for Roger, and as soon as he arrives he ends up waist deep in some serious trouble!

A collection of Sonic games including Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, and the combination of the two, Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

Sonic and Tails Embark on a new journey to get the Chaos Emeralds and Stop Dr. Robotnik from taking over the world with the Death Egg. ...Again. This time Knuckles Joins! But on whose side?

Microsofts well known, C++ integrated development environment (IDE)

QuickTime Player is capable of handling va­rious formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and interactive panoramic images.

Release History on Wikipedia

Internet Explorer is the set of core Web browsing technologies in Windows.

Native alternatives for non-windows platforms

• Mozilla Firefox (GTK+, Gecko)
• Opera (Qt, own)
• Epiphany (GTK+, Webkit)
• Midori (GTK+, Webkit)
• Konqueror (Qt, KHTML)
• arora (Qt, Webkit)
• Links (CLI, own)

Microsofts well known, C++ integrated development environment (IDE)

The Master Genealogist (TMG) is a popular genealogy software for Windows. ­The Master Genealogist is able to be customized for data entry through user-defined event, name, and relationship types.

TMG uses DLL's from Visual Fox Pro (VFP) so many issues associated with VFP affect TMG.

TMG's version history can be found on Wikipedia

There are a couple of Linux alternatives:

• Gramps (Debian package) - XML-based, written in Python. Good data-model (reads all of GEDCOM 5.5), handles large family trees well.
• GeneWeb (Debian package) - Written in OCaml, with CGI interface. Simpler data-mode, but handles 400k-name families without trouble.

A great real-time strategy game, in 3d and using physics, that runs great, even on a netbook.

Total Annihilation was one of the first 3d real-time strategy games.  It has massive maps, compared to Starcraft for example, the units really are 3d, rather than isometric projections, which were common at the time.  There are aircraft, artillery, long-range naval weapons, super weapons, nuclear missiles, anti-nuke, ...

Even today, Total Annihilation stands out, and doesn't look dated graphically.  The music is awesome, played by a real symphony orchestra, and composed especially for the game.

There are two expansions: Core Contingency, and Battle Tactics.

Total Annihilation on Wine runs fluidly, and feels like it is running natively.

It runs just great on a netbook, even one of the old ones with a 800x480 screen, with the music, and without needing a cd player.

Classic adventure games starring Larry Laffer (aka Leisure Suit Larry), a balding, dorky, double entendre speaking, leisure suit-wearing (but still somewhat lovable) loser in his 40s who spends much of his life trying (unsuccessfully) to seduce attractive women.

Original Larry Games - DOS and/or Windows

• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987, remade 1991)
• Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (1988)
• Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals (1989)
• Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies (fictional name; the game exists only in theory)
• Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991)
• Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! (1993, CD version in 1994)
• Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail! (1996)
• Leisure Suit Larry 8: Lust in Space (cancelled)

Larry Games After "Loss" of Original Development Team (not that good)


• Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (2004)