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Install freedink with Homebrew
Portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. Version 109.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02.
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overview
Package summary
Portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine
Project links
Commands and aliases
- dink
- dinkedit
- freedink
- freedinkedit
history
Project history and usage
GNU FreeDink is the GNU portable version of the Dink Smallwood game engine. It packages a classic adventure/RPG engine, editor tools, and runtime commands for systems where users expect old free games to build and run from source or from a package manager.
Project history
The GNU project page presents FreeDink as a portable Dink Smallwood engine rather than a new game universe. Its role is preservation and portability: keeping the engine and editor usable on free software systems while pointing users to the GNU documentation and Savannah source-control area.
Adoption history
GNU FreeDink entered the normal GNU distribution channel and appears in several package managers. The supplied package facts list Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Ubuntu, and winget entries, showing a small but durable packaging footprint for a niche game engine.
How it is used
Users run freedink or dink to play compatible Dink Smallwood content and freedinkedit or dinkedit to use the editor. Packaging usually focuses on making the SDL-based engine, data lookup paths, and desktop/game integration work without requiring users to build old game code manually.
Why package nerds care
FreeDink is a package-nerd preservation case: a legacy game engine carried through GNU release infrastructure, source control, and distribution recipes. It is small compared with modern game engines, but interesting because packages must bridge classic game assumptions with current filesystem, SDL, and launcher conventions.
Timeline
- 2008: GNU FTP lists early freedink 1.08 source releases.
- 2010: Multiple 1.08 dated releases appeared in the GNU archive.
- 2012: GNU archive entries include later 1.08 dated and 108.x releases.
- 2020s: Distribution packages continue to ship FreeDink as a niche free game engine.
Related projects
- FreeDink is directly related to Dink Smallwood and to GNU's wider collection of free software games and game engines. Its Savannah CVS page is the official source-control surface named by current curation.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
dink | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dinkedit | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freedink | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freedinkedit | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version109.6
manager updated2026-08-02
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:freedink |
|---|---|
| Version | 109.6 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/ |
| Last updated | 2026-08-02T16:35:33+09:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation