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Links to my personal favourite free and open source applications for personal reference.

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What's inside

Media players

Automation tools

  • Ansible

    Configuration management tool.

Diagnostic tools

  • API Monitor

    A free software that lets you monitor and control API calls made by applications and services.

  • CPU-Z

    System information software.

  • H2testw

    Checks SD cards for errors

  • Open Hardware Monitor

    The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.

  • Process Hacker

    A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware

  • QModMaster

    QModMaster is an implementation of a ModBus master application. A graphical user interface allows easy communication with ModBus RTU and TCP slaves. QModMaster also includes a bus monitor for examining all traffic on the bus.

Audio and MIDI

  • ASIO4ALL

    Universal ASIO Driver For WDM Audio.

  • Audacity

    Free, open source, cross-platform audio software.

  • Friture

    An open source real-time audio analyzer.

  • MIDI-OX

    A fully featured all-purpose MIDI utility.

  • MIDI Yoke Junction

    A MIDI Patch Cable driver.

  • Sonic Visualiser

    An open source application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

Editors

  • Blender

    The free and open source 3D creation suite.

  • DaVinci Resolve Studio

    Video editing tool.

  • Freeplane

    Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.

  • fritzing

    Electronics prototyping tool.

  • GIMP

    The Free & Open Source Image Editor.

  • Inkscape

    Draw Freely.

Emulators and simulators

  • blueMSX

    Emulator for the MSX platform.

  • DOSBox

    DOS-emulator.

  • EmulationStation

    A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard.

  • fMSX

    Portable MSX emulator.

  • RetroArch

    A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.

  • Speccy

    Portable Spectrum emulator.

Package/project managers/runtime environments

  • Chocolatey

    A package manager for Windows.

  • Node.js

    An open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment.

  • npm

    A JavaScript package manager.

  • uv

    An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

AI driven development

  • Claude Code

    Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal.

  • Cline

    An AI assistant that can use your CLI aNd Editor.

  • Codex

    Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally on your computer.

  • Continue

    Build and run custom agents across your IDE, terminal, and CI.

  • Gemini CLI

    An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal. It provides lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model.

  • Kilo Code

    Open-source VS Code AI agent based on Cline. The project frequently merges features from open-source projects, such as Roo Code and Cline.

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