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Try Out Tux Racer This Weekend
Forager writes: "Tux the Penguin is no longer just a logo. He's also a racecar. Sort of. Sunspire Studios has just released the game Tux Racer for the Windows and Linux operating systems (OpenGL required). From their website: "Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the abilty to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds." Great graphics. Slick gameplay. Cool stuff. Getting great reviews, too. Oh, and did I mention it's totally free? Very cool stuff indeed." Quite cool looking. It's in apt so Debian users can just 'apt-get install tuxracer' and check it out. It ain't no Mario Kart 64, but then again, what is? Screenshots are impressive too.
I'm the Debian package maintainer for TuxRacer, getting /.ed by mail asking for potato (Debian 2.2) packages.
And I am currently looking for an adequate potato machine to recompile my package, that does have the apropriate -dev packages installed or where I can have them installed easily. If I can't find one, I'll try to create an chroot() potato environment. So be patient and wait a few more days. Unfortunatly, I can't afford to keep an extra machine running potato.
Of course, you can always recompile from source. Do a s/stable/unstable/ on your deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update and apt-get source tuxracer tuxracer-data Don't we just love Debian?
PS: Potato binaries won't have sound and joystick support, unless you use libsdl* from unstable.
Coming this Holiday Season....
Tony Tux - Pro Penguin
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Does anybody else remember the old apple game (I think it was a Beagle Brothers product) called "I/O Silver". Aside from being a bad pun, it was also a very good pengo play-alike. You were a frantic programmer running around a lab, killing bugs instead of ice-creatures =:-)
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Prediction: You mentioning a cockatiel will bring on at least four hundred lame-ass joke posts and another two-hundred penis bird posts.
Bite my yammer.
TeX... you may have heard of it...
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...is maybe more characters from other alternative OS's.
:)
Just think about it for a second. Add in the FreeBSD Daemon, maybe the Linux Fox, Wilber the Gimp (finally, we get to see what the rest of him looks like), and maybe even Clarus the Dogcow (Darwin and all that). Of course, we'd have to think of something to represent Be too; any Be users know of a candidate?
And maybe just for fun, even throw in the Windows logo as a secret character, but it's only half as fast as the other characters and automatically aims toward obstacles so it crashes all the time
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From this LinuxWorld article: (in relation to track editing for Tux Racer)
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There are three layers that are used for elevation, terrain, and trees. The rules for each of those individual layers are as follows:
Elevation is measured by colors. White is high, and black is low.
It sounds to me like the whole dammed track is one huge bump map. Not really a bump map in the current normal usage but more like a heightfield from POVRay and similar.
Quite a clever, and very cheap (Gimp) way of coming up with a map editor.
0daymeme.com: Great stuff.
The question is, what will they do with the Cow from Practical C Programming?
Starcraft cheat code: "there is no cow level" does this give you any ideas? It sure gave the Diablo team some ideas, as Diablo II includes a cow bonus level. (Yes, I know they're both Blizzard but...)
Think Earthworm Jim. Think the official PC Space Invaders. Think South Park 64. Cow levels all over the place.
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What would O'Reilly do with the dustpuppy (#5260) on the cover of Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell?
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Ah, another fan game, one that sounds like it could be as much fun as xBill. Of course, will we have the option of running a biathalon with panicked Bill Gates as the targets? Just a thought...
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Short answer: Buggy video drivers.
Long answer:
The Win2K driver development kit is not part of the standard MSSDK; it costs extra (filesystem drivers alone are $1000). NT4 driver developers whose companies wouldn't foot the bill had to reverse-engineer the W2K driver model, and this produced buggy drivers (don't run NT servers in more than 640x480x4-bit). This has crashed Win2K Pro (brought the whole system down; dumb stupid graphics-in-the-kernel) several times on Allegro library-based games that run fine in Win95/98/ME, Windows NT, DOS, and Linux.
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But he's also Super Mario!. Fun for all us fanboys.
These comments and opinions are mine and mine alone, although they shouldn't be.
Installing it now.. Thank god for the T1, but curse the slow PII-300..
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I agree that Nintendo's Mario Kart 64 software for its Nintendo 64 console had bugs in both design and implementation. Here's a small sample:
Before you say, "That's not a bug; it's a feature," remember that Windows's BSODs are considered by some to be "a feature."
At least the MK64 CPU cheats less than the SMK-16 CPU.
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On an offtopic note, does anyone think that a cockatiel would make a good mascot for an Australian distro of Linux? (for some Cockatiel pictures, check out www.cockatiel.com)
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Umm... I'm not sure if this is actually going to be enough of a reason to bring linux to the masses.... I mean games are cool and all, but until we have more reliable drivers for all the cool graphics cards, they won't ever be able to compete with some of the more complex Win32 games. I think maybe some time should be spend working instead on more PRACTICAL applications, like a good Professional document publishing suite that doesn't use WINE.
If you could race other people over the internet, it would really make the game worth getting...
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Nothing like showing up those windows players who can play the better tux...
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Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Look at the screenshot where Tux is cruising at 174 km/h.
Hot damn. Even on ice, anyone that can avoid bursting into flames when sliding on their stomach at that speed HAS to be the ruler.. of.. well, something.
Last time I gave a Windows CD that much friction, it wouldn't even install anymore (CD under tire, pop the clutch, we've all done stuff like that, right?).
It's the same in most entertainment industries. Remeber "Blair Witch Project"?
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
Install service pack 1, that improved my game speeds a lot.
Also the voodoo 5500 might have helped too
Are you using Win9x or Win NT or Win2k? I am using Win2k and it crawls. Hell, it sits at that opening screen and chews up 99% of system resources. I'll have to give it a go on 98 and see how it does...
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
Gaming industry is just the same as IT. Everyone expects the same company to churn out quality software all the time, mayit be ID Software or someone else. But sometimes some unknown group of people put together a gem and it takes the industry by its balls. There are quite a few of them which has proved that it doesnt always take an established company to churn out something good.
Sometimes individuals or groups of people are enough. For eg. Serious Sam, the new First PErson Shooter from Croteam, a small group of people in Croatia has put out a beautiful engine which could handle vast detailed areas, just like what Doom used to do. I get incredible framerates with 32 bit color on my GTS card. Its rumored that Croteam could very well have put out an engine which would rival the Quake3 engine when it comes to OpenGL.
Same goes for another demo called XIsle, which could be found from the Nvidia downloads page, which should be coming out soon, which again is truly a work of art. Last but not the least, GunMan Chronicles, which started out as a mod for Quake2 and then got ported to be a Half Life mod, is not being released by Valve as a new Game.
Its gonna be a "take no prisoners" battle ahead for 3D Game Engines. And when ID comes out with their new engine for Doom, I could only wait breathlessly because every day of my life, I fall in love with Quake3 Engine.
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i don't think that TuxRacer for windows will have quite the desired effect.
maybe it's just me. What they should do is have a real small linux kernel hidden in the binary and if you beat the game, it loads it into memory. If you lose, well, you get windows.
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Come to think of it ... I'd love to play the Camel Racer game :)
I'm getting sick and tired of being moderated down for ccomments.
I like to participate in slashdot discussions, but every time I post something it seems, I get mod'ed down to 1 because my post is overrated. What's the fucking point of the plus 1 bonus then?
Apparently me having trouble running the software in the featured article on a specific os is of no interest to anyone and therefore should be fucked straight to hell.
I hate bullshit moderators who strike anything down because it's not their fancy instead of basing their decisions on any bit of intelligence.
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For once I'm ahead of the /. crowd. I have had the new version of Tux-racer for three days now.
It is quite slick (especially when compared to the 0.12 release). I have ran into some problems with it, however. The most noticeable one is that it segfaults alot. Some tracks just won't work.
The other is that it requires very up to date Open GL. On my machine at home I had to download the latest Mesa to get the right header files (the nvidia xf86-4.0 drivers had the right routines) on my machine at work, which is still running the nvidia hacked xf86-3.3.5 server, it won't link.
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Yeah, but in the screenshot, Tux has no fish.
That is not a happy penguin.
Must have fish, or can't compile.
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the penguin hardly symbolizes the open source movement as one of teamwork, progress and widescope. it has become a symbol of similarity and loss of identity which hopefully open source does not promote.
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