Tuxracer 1.0 Retail Version Finished

Nailer writes "Tuxracer 1.0 is complete Version 0.6 has been downloaded over a million times, and 1.0 looks like it will kick its older siblings arse. This latest version has a massively improved set of features compared to the earlier versions, including multiplayer support, far more detailed tracks, new hazards (giant boulders, better trees, vehicles, and entire towns with roads, houses, castles, fountains, etc) new players (a girl tux, a funky polar bear, and others), split screen multiplay, internationalization, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff. Take a look at the screenshots and trailer movie. The initial release of the game will be proprietary for Windows and Linux (and perhaps Mac), but some of the code from 1.0 will be released as Open Source. Sunspire are still looking for a publisher, but should be taking direct orders soon. And when they do, I'm buying it."

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Highly technical review

[7608]

Yes, that was a highly technical review, slashdot.... "It'll kick arse".

Thank you. Up next, we discover that the origins of calling your computer's case a "box" is also due to the lazy slashdot editors, who refuse to do a proper writeup...

Re:Highly technical review

[DGolden]

I have books from the dawn of the microcomputer age, and the name for the "box" of your computer back then was... "mainframe". At that stage, analogously to the "big" computer systems of the time (now called mainframes), that's what the "box" of a standard microcomputer was called, since it... was... the... main... frame... of the computer.

The keyboard/monitor/etc, were (still are) described as "peripherals". For some reason, "mainframe" didn't stick around for the microcomputer, and came to exclusively mean the big computers that IBM still make.

Personally, I like "chassis" for the main box.