anonymous - Rendering of a stroked font
arachnid - Curses maze displayer/navigator with only line-of-sight visibility
burley - A Poker game
gavare - A ray tracer
gavin - Mini-OS
hibachi - A CGI capable HTTP server
hoyle - Curses based polynomial graphing with auto-scale
jdalbec - Conway's look'n'say sequence split into elements
kopczynski - OCR of 8, 9, 10 and 11
newbern - Renders arbitary bitmapped fonts
omoikane - A CRC inserter
schnitzi - Editor animation
sds - Space/tab/linefeed steganography
vik1 - X Windows car racing game
vik2 - Calculates prime numbers using only CPP
anonymous - optimizing dynamic binary translator, x86 progs on any host
bellard - A C subset programming system for x86
cheong - Computes arbitrary-precision square root
coupard - Outputs current time as a sound file
ctk - A driver game
dgbeards - Plays suicide chess
herrmann1 - A Turing machine using preprocessor
herrmann2 - A SIRDS/3D generator, the source is SIRDS/3D itself
jason - An Adventure-like game
kev - A Pong game across network
ollinger - Prints primes with a sieve graph
rosten - Makes X mouse pointer have inertia or anti-inertia
schweikh - Shell glob matcher
westley - Sorts/scrambles, outputs as text/punch-cards
williams - Plays X-based missile command
anderson - ASCII to semaphore code convertor
bellard - Prints M6972593 (2^6972593-1) by Modular Fast Fourier Transform
bmeyer - An image compressor
briddlebane - Verbally abuses the user
dhyang - Saitou Hajime image that prints a prog that prints a prog ...
dlowe - A dc-style calculator that uses embedded Perl
jarijyrki - An X-based spreadsheet program with graphing features!
natori - Phase of the moon
primenum - Source with English words that looks like a prime tester
rince - Plots the positions of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter
robison - Highly Compressed Program for Playing Hygienic Checkers
schneiderwent - Prints the aproximate time in words
thadgavin - Prints a dazzeling moving image under multiple interfaces
tomx - C source, shell program and Makefile
banks - A flight simulator!
bas1 - Outputs a gziped 3D beam maze in Postscript
bas2 - determines the size of stdin under IOCCC sizing rules
chaos - Rotates and zooms an object using ASCII graphics
df - A word guessing game
dlowe - Pootifies stdin (useful to view Microsoft html files)
dloweneil - A very addictive ASCII poot game
dorssel - ASCII / Morse code translator
fanf - Translates Lambda expressions into combinator expressions
schnitzi - Prints a C program that sorts arguments using strange functions
schweikh1 - Tests to see if your compiler and headers are standard
schweikh2 - Prints random 0's and 1's; causes some gcc's as passes to choke
schweikh3 - Finds duplicate files that waste disk space
tomtorfs - CRC generator
august - Subset of C compiler and byte code interpreter
dalbec - Generator of strong probable-primes to a given base
eldby - Flying 3D spheres in an ASCII display
gandalf - Displays the ASCII and 8 bit character tables
huffman - Braille to ASCII and vice versa
jonth - X based dual player tic-tac-toe game
rcm - Gunzip equivalent
schweikh1 - Calculates Easter dates from 1582 to 2199 AD
schweikh2 - Search for a limited class of expressions that equal a constant
schweikh3 - Determins the memory allocation honesty of the OS
westley - Shows the time on clock with a configurable face and style
cdua - Generate a maze on the screen and then solve it
dodsond1 - Text to "Pig Latin" translator
dodsond2 - Interactive 3D Maze
esde - Searches for words in a file which have the same Soundex code
garry - Environment-expansion and binary output via escaped env vars
heathbar - 16 bit addition the easy/hard way
leo - Output interesting patterns and cycles in PostScript
makarios - Emits the base 8 representation of prime palindromic in base 8
savastio - Infinite-precision factorial calculator
schnitzi - Find divisors: where a core dump is a feature, not a bug
spinellis - Abusing the rules
vanschnitz - Towers of Hanoi via the C pre-processor
dodsond1 - play a game of othello
dodsond2 - Hunt the Wumpus (gziped source)
horton - Plot cubic equations on a tty
imc - print a random n by n magic square
ldb - print a random line from stdin
schnitzi - flips stdin along a diagonal (source mirrored along diagonal)
shapiro - print time of day on an tty
smr - world's smallest self reproducing program
tvr - interactive fractals for the X Window System
weisberg - prints prime numbers
westley - Adventure/Dungeon like game played via the C pre-processor
ant - egrep utility with Posix-like documentation
cmills - X11 program that shatters and bounces windows
dgibson - plays the game of like using cpp
ejb - tower of Hanoi and patience pizzle
jonth - game of Tetris
leo - game of mastermind (cows & bulls)
lmfjyh - source is the filename, prints value of __FILE__
plummer - prints numbers up to a given value
rince - game state machine language, comes with a number of games
schnitzi - answers questions about English text in a file
vanb - calculator that prints in octal
adrian - grep-like utility using a state machine transition language
albert - factors multi-precision numbers with factors < MAX_LONG
ant - make utility
buzzard.1 - print factorial, gcd or prime test using a Babbage-like engine
buzzard.2 - forth-like stack machine
gson - anagram generator
imc - Mandelbrot/Julia drawer
kivinen - X11 space invaders, dropout and knockout games
lush - prints "Hello, World" using error messages
marangon - game to balance a grid of digits to all 5's
nathan - obfuscation by (trivial) encryption (source not exported)
vern - plays chess
westley - print ASCII world map and mark a location by lat/long
ant - compressed vi-like editor
brnstnd - sorta stack language
buzzard - walk thru a maze from a first person point of view
cdupont - prints a message without vowels
davidguy - plays life on a root window, doesn't need Xlib or include files
dds - basic compiler, heavily compressed
fine - rot13s lines of input
rince - game with sprites, boulders, dimonds, and keys
westley - plays tic-tac-toe, compile output for next move, prints board
baruch - short prog to solve N-queens problem
cmills - squished blackjack game
dds - basic interpreter, heavily compressed
dg - rot13 done with strange cpp macros
jaw - compress & atob standins
pjr - the quick brown fox... cppd, structs of functions
scjones - trigraph-abusing self-reproducing program
stig - nested-comment tester (all on command line)
tbr - simple compressed shell, silly layout
theorem - numerically solves the equation y'=f(x,y) and then some
westley - poetic exchange between lovers, prints "luvs me, luvs not"
fubar - self-reconstructing, recompiling factorial program
jar.1 - char*_="Hello world.\n";
jar.2 - lisp interpreter, compressed
ovdluhe - monkey-typer following template, 'APE' identifiers
paul - print fibonacci base 2 by simulating turing machine
robison - apl-expression interpreter (binary), written in C--
roemer - prints e, script-pi shaped layout, _31415 identifiers
tromp - squished tetris
vanb - one-liner prints all subsets of arguments
westley - reversible, rot13able program that reverses and/or rot13s.
applin - massive #define stuff, includes itself; prints table of primes
dale - prints command line, using lots of system calls
isaak - table driven table of the elements; cpp, self-inclusion
litmaath - sorts each arg using only argc, argv, and 'while(<cond>);'
phillipps - 'first day of christmas', tables, heavily main() calling
reddy - prints name of 'char *(*(foo[16])();', compressed
robison - print e in any base, uses only --, >=, and while()
spinellis - #include "/dev/tty"
westley - prints '3.141', circle made of '_-_-_-_' in layout
biggar - program: "P;" defined on command line
heckbert - obfuscated fold program
hines - counts goto's, all ids anagrams of 'goto', all flow w goto
korn - one-liner that prints a message on a Un*x system
lievaart - very good othello player
wall - roman numeral -> decimal and vice versa conversion
westley - individually palindromic lines prints a palindrome
applin - hello world works under cc, /bin/sh, and f77
august - struct-heavy e-computation, memory allocation with sbrk
bright - hex dump, cpp compressed, uses lost of << for constants
hague - morse code filter written with 'DIT DAH _DIT DIT_DAH'
holloway - prints hello world! via a recursive main
marshall - train engine-shaped program prints "choo choo"
pawka - prints 'obfuscated?' big, uses xyyyx idents...
stein - prints HHMMSS in UTC time
wall - dvorak keyboard emulator
applin - one-liner to print hello world, with execlp
august - cpp obfuscated, compressed, main-recursive primes in binary
lycklama - heavily cpped with o_oo identifiers, scrolls text right
shapiro - two defines, one 7-liner, results in a maze
sicherman - rot13 with strange #defs that create comment headers etc.
anonymous - prints hello world, where read is write
decot - prints garbage, weird cpp defines (keywords for others)
laman - prints spiralling numbers, laid out in columns
mullender - hardcoded vax and pdp-11 code to move :-) across the screen
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