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Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

https://github.com/ebbejan/tux-racer-js
32•retro_guy•3h ago

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lelanthran•1h ago
Their used to be a racing game, around 2005 - 2008, in the Ubuntu repositories called Torque (or similar)?

Anyone knows what happened to it?

jadamson•1h ago
TORCS?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/torcs/

lelanthran•44m ago
Not the same one; I remember it only had one car (red one, Mitsubishi maybe) and one track. Very much a WIP.
homebrewer•12m ago
There aren't many FOSS games from that era, are you sure about the name?

Might it be ManiaDrive?

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/index.php?downloads=yes

Or vDrift?

https://vdrift.net

rezmason•1h ago
Oh, fantastic! I've tried rebuilding this for macOS half a dozen times, and never quite managed for one reason or another. And now you've brought it to the browser.

I might try adding reflections and translucency to ice someday.

elaus•43m ago
That music is stuck in my ears for so many years...
boricj•42m ago
Impressive work.

Maybe it's my memory from 20 years ago playing tricks on me, but to quote Civvie 11: "It's like playing a version of [Extreme Tux Racer] where everything was moved two inches or so to the left."

Animats•21m ago
But you have to install Node.js to run this "in the browser"? Why isn't this just a web page?
supersparrow•10m ago
It could be a webpage but the developer would have to host it on a server somewhere (which would cost something). With the instructions to run it on the GitHub page, you are effectively running a server which is hosting the game.
halter73•5m ago
There's a link at the top of the README to https://0x00eb.itch.io/tux-racer where you can play it without needing to host it yourself.
lamer3•7m ago
Reminds me the Adobe Shockwave games

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