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      <title>Powdertoy part 1</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Powdertoy part 1&#xA;&#xA;The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! &#xA;&#xA;Powdertoy website&#xA;&#xA;The website should auto detect your Operating system so go ahead and click the download button.&#xA;&#xA;download button&#xA;&#xA;When the save dialogue appears click save&#xA;&#xA;Save to a useful location&#xA;Go to where you saved the .zip file&#xA;Right click and extract archive ( the exact procedure will depend on your OS.&#xA;Extract the files to where you saved the .zip file&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;Extract files&#xA;&#xA;You will end up with a set of files. &#xA;&#xA;Extracted files&#xA;&#xA;Run powder toy&#xA;&#xA;The running program will look similar to this.&#xA;&#xA;running program&#xA;&#xA;Very basic demo video &#xA;&#xA;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; sandbox=&#34;allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups&#34; src=&#34;https://diode.zone/videos/embed/da7efa74-19cd-4e75-a18f-a7e2c24ad8a3&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen/iframe&#xA;&#xA;@powdertoy@diode.zone&#xA;&#xA;#powdertoy,#sandbox,#physics,#game&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Powdertoy part 1</p>

<pre><code>The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! 
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<ul><li><a href="https://powdertoy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Powdertoy website</a></li></ul>

<p>The website should auto detect your Operating system so go ahead and click the download button.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy.png" alt="download button"></p>

<p>When the save dialogue appears click save</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy2.png" alt=""></p>
<ul><li>Save to a useful location</li>
<li>Go to where you saved the .zip file</li>
<li>Right click and extract archive ( the exact procedure will depend on your OS.</li>
<li>Extract the files to where you saved the .zip file</li></ul>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy3.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy4.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy5.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy6.png" alt="Extract files"></p>

<p>You will end up with a set of files.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/dl-powdertoy7.png" alt="Extracted files"></p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/powdertoy7.png" alt="Run powder toy"></p>

<p>The running program will look similar to this.</p>

<p><img src="https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/screenshots/-/raw/master/powder-toy/running-powdertoy.png" alt="running program"></p>

<p>Very basic demo video</p>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://diode.zone/videos/embed/da7efa74-19cd-4e75-a18f-a7e2c24ad8a3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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