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PatchX - Rebuilding computers for kids and handicapped
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Written by Brian Wilson
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00 |
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A buddy of mine called to ask if I could fix his computer for his two boys before school starts. He had all of the disks with his computer so we were able to format it and load all of the free software beloew before school starts.

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AVG Antivirus - provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You'll get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, LinkScanner, and e-mail scanning.
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Google Chrome - runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.
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Adobe Reader - Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files
- BlockCAD - is a freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks.
- NotePad++ - is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
- OpenOffice - is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.
- Paint.Net - is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
- Stellarium - is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

- ABC Kid Genius - Educational Software for the Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling in English.
- Chicken Invaders - Sometime in the near future, earth is invaded by chickens from another galaxy
- Frozen Bubble - Penguins shooting bubbles is a lot of fun.
- Scratch - A programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online
- LBreakout2 - offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks ...).
- Icy Tower - is a fun and short, yet addictive game where your only goal is to gain as much score as possible. The game brings you custom characters, unlockable floors types, replays to share with your friends, lots of combo rewards and more!
- 123 Solitaire - is a 100% free high-quality solitaire games collection.
- NeonPlat 2 - Help Platdude fill in the white floors, whilst taking care of all the bad guys.
- Highway Pursuit - is a modern game taking its inspiration from a number of classic arcade games.
- Battle Tanks - is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons.
- Echoes - is essentially our take on Asteroids & to save anyone else the trouble of making the comparison, yes, it's also "a bit like Geometry Wars" :)
- Engima - is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones.
- Frogatto - is a “platformer” or “jump-and-run” videogame. Like in many classic games, the world is viewed as a cross-section seen from the side, and your character (in this case, a small green fellow named Frogatto) walks and jumps between solid platforms, whilst avoiding monsters.
- GLtron - is a last player riding game based on the light cycle portion of the movie Tron.
- GNUChess - lets most modern computers play a full game of chess.
- LinCity - is a city simulation game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
- N - a physics-based platformer for PC and Mac featuring an acrobatic ninja.
- Neverball - Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
- Numpty Physics - Harness gravity with your crayon and set about creating blocks, ramps, levers, pulleys and whatever else you fancy to get the little red thing to the little yellow thing.
- Pogo Sticker - This is no ordinary platformer! Pogo Sticker is what happens when you make a "Jump 'n Run" game but leave out the Run. It means non-stop jumping from the beginning to the finish line!
- Pingus - A journey into the unknown.
- Ri-li is an arcade game licensed under the GPL (General Public License). You drive a toy wood engine in many levels and you must collect all the coaches to win.You can dowload it and play indefinitely. It's Free. You can play on 'Linux', 'Mac OsX', 'Windows', 'AmigaOS4'
- Swarm Racer - is a different kind of racing game. Instead of controlling a single vehicle, take control of a whole swarm of bees and fly around the track while strategically shifting your swarm into different formations.
- SuperTux - SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run arcade sidescroller game.
- Tux Math - "Tux, of Math Command" is a math drill game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin.
- Tux Paint - is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
- Tux Type - So many fish so little time
- Wormux - is a free and open-source game getting its initial inspiration from the Worms game.
- X-Moto - A challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay

- Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 3000
- 510 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
- 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
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Last Updated on Saturday, 28 August 2010 15:57 |
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Written by Brian Wilson
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00 |
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This computer was given to the school by a donation but had not been patched or have the games we had put on the other systems. We had a little trouble fixing it up because the password had been changed to of all things 'girlfriend' hummm. After we recovered the password the system was given the PatchX treatment and given back to them after the weekend.

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ClamWin - Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code
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Firefox - The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.
- Adobe Reader - Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files
- BlockCAD - is a freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks.
- Audacity - is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

- Chicken Invaders - Sometime in the near future, earth is invaded by chickens from another galaxy
- Frozen Bubble - Penguins shooting bubbles is a lot of fun.
- Scratch - A programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online
- LBreakout2 - offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks ...).
- Icy Tower - is a fun and short, yet addictive game where your only goal is to gain as much score as possible. The game brings you custom characters, unlockable floors types, replays to share with your friends, lots of combo rewards and more!
- 123 Solitaire - is a 100% free high-quality solitaire games collection.
- NeonPlat 2 - Help Platdude fill in the white floors, whilst taking care of all the bad guys.
- Highway Pursuit - is a modern game taking its inspiration from a number of classic arcade games.
- Battle Tanks - is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons.
- Echoes - is essentially our take on Asteroids & to save anyone else the trouble of making the comparison, yes, it's also "a bit like Geometry Wars" :)
- Engima - is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones.
- Frogatto - is a “platformer” or “jump-and-run” videogame. Like in many classic games, the world is viewed as a cross-section seen from the side, and your character (in this case, a small green fellow named Frogatto) walks and jumps between solid platforms, whilst avoiding monsters.
- GLtron - is a last player riding game based on the light cycle portion of the movie Tron.
- LinCity - is a city simulation game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
- N - a physics-based platformer for PC and Mac featuring an acrobatic ninja.
- Numpty Physics - Harness gravity with your crayon and set about creating blocks, ramps, levers, pulleys and whatever else you fancy to get the little red thing to the little yellow thing.
- Pingus - A journey into the unknown.
- Phun - combines physics and art in a playful way with open ended undirected gameplay. Phun is not just a game - it is much more! Phun is educational, entertaining and pretty addictive!
- Ri-li is an arcade game licensed under the GPL (General Public License). You drive a toy wood engine in many levels and you must collect all the coaches to win.You can dowload it and play indefinitely. It's Free. You can play on 'Linux', 'Mac OsX', 'Windows', 'AmigaOS4'
- Swarm Racer - is a different kind of racing game. Instead of controlling a single vehicle, take control of a whole swarm of bees and fly around the track while strategically shifting your swarm into different formations.
- SuperTux - SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run arcade sidescroller game.
- Tux Math - "Tux, of Math Command" is a math drill game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin.
- Tux Type - So many fish so little time
- Wormux - is a free and open-source game getting its initial inspiration from the Worms game.
- X-Moto - A challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an all important role in the gameplay

- Dell Inc. Vostro 220s Series
- 2014 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
- 2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:50 |
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Written by Brian Wilson
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Friday, 18 December 2009 10:43 |
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Donated by:

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Our friends over at TwoRobs let us have an older iMac to try and fix up. Our knowledge base is more around Windows and Linux so this has been a great learning experience for us. We did purchase more memory for the machine to move it up to 512. We tried putting OSX on it but I am thinking we may need to move it back down to OS 9 or try putting Linux on the box. Like I said, we are learning so this one may take some time to be ready for adoption.

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Loffin Battle - is a 2 player arena combat game based on the world of Jaspers Journeys. There is no single player mode! Grab a friend and try to outwit them in one of 9 arenas carefully designed to provide strategic possibilities and fast-paced action!
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Swarm Race - is a different kind of racing game. Instead of controlling a single vehicle, take control of a whole swarm of bees and fly around the track while strategically shifting your swarm into different formations. Featuring funky chip music and plasmatronic backgrounds, Swarm Racer is nothing but pure retro gaming goodness!
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Mario Paint - is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES.
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Super Tux - s a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GPL.
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Leaping Lemmings - One day, Norwegian fishermen Birger and Roald are returning home from a long day of fishing, when they spotted a herd of adorable fat fuzzy lemmings stampeding off a cliff into the ocean (as they are known to sometimes do). Overwelmed with pity and mindless altrusim, they land their boat on the beach, take up a net, and try to save as many helpless lemmings as possible.
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Lines - is an addictive one-player board game. The goal is to arrange five or more balls of one color in a continuous line so that they disappear. Each time you move a ball, three more balls of random colors fall onto the board, provided you don't manage to build at least a 5-ball row. Your score depends on how many balls disappear by the end of the game.
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Quinn - is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine the simplicity of the original idea with the genuine Mac experience for perfect user enjoyment.
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Pogo Sticker - is no ordinary platformer! Pogo Sticker is what happens when you make a "Jump 'n Run" game but leave out the Run. It means non-stop jumping from the beginning to the finish line!
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Scratch - is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 21:44 |
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Written by Brian Wilson
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 20:19 |
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The wonderful kids at the Greenvale School made this for us. It was quite the surprise so we wanted to show it off.


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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 June 2010 20:24 |
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PatchX at the Chili Cookoff |
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Written by Brian Wilson
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Friday, 30 April 2010 08:17 |
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Come join us at the Chili cookoff in downtown Roanoke this Saturday May the 1st.

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