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Providing linux scripts, documentation and bug fixes to revitalize classic engineering simulation games. The games are organized into a week-long eSports & mindsports decathlon.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 6 stories, 9 comments · first 2019-05-04 · latest 2025-07-27

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    eSports for Engineers: course syllabus bridging gaming and STEM education [pdf]
    story by fifteenth · 2025-07-27 · 0 comments
  2. …menu "Top Level Menu" which launches the games. This menu is shown on page 2 of the brochure here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers/blob/mas...
  3. …other documents there, this would probably be a better description of what this package is about: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers/blob/mas... I also found these ones helpful in understanding what is going on here:…
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    Old engineering simulation games, now open source [pdf]
    story by fifteenth · 2023-11-17 · 12 comments
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    Superb old engineering simulation games, now open source and available on Linux [pdf]
    story by fifteenth · 2022-07-16 · 0 comments
  6. …world. The adventure is different every time you play. Some classic sims of this type are here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers
  7. …the year 2000. You can find it packaged to run under linux/wine, along with other free games, here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers the source code is here: https://github.com/gondur/BOB_Src
    comment by cao597 · 2022-06-02 · in Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
  8. …such as Grand Prix Legends, Mig Alley/Battle of Britain and Falcon 4 are available for linux here: https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers (this is free, and does not use steam)
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    Museum of classic PC sims (open source, runs on Linux under wine)
    story by fifteenth · 2021-06-22 · 0 comments
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    Classic sim racing, flight sims,deep learning Chess, Weiqi in free Linux package
    story by cao597 · 2020-11-26 · 0 comments
  11. Excellent open source ML sparing partners for Chess and Go are available: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers But what about Contract Bridge? Is there an open source program that will play the other three hands? A machine…
  12. …or acrobatic flying, there's the esports for engineers package of classic PC simulation games: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers
  13. …Fighter Tactics and Maneuvering" by Shaw, along with the combat aviation and auto racing manuals at https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers
  14. …linux/wine is in the Readme.md file of the repository linked to by the hacker news submit here: https://github.com/bencaddigan/esports-for-engineers
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    Superb old engineering simulation games, now open source and available on Linux
    story by fifteenth · 2019-05-04 · 6 comments