"Racer" anyone ?

[Thomas Beckett]

On 4/25/05, Jon Dixon <dixon.jon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's not in the repos due to being technically closed source.
> According to the site source is only available to alleviate binary
> issues and changes are not recommended but may be submitted for
> review, although big changes are apparently not worth it. Sounds a bit
> odd.
> 
> IMHO, games like this are best served by consoles.
> 
> - Jon
> 
> On 4/25/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > I would like to get the game "Racer" (http://www.racer.nl/) running on
> > Ubuntu, but on the download page I can 't see any .deb, and I can see it
> > in Synpatic, not even in Breezy.
> > However a friend using Mandrake, had a RPM for it in the Mandrake
> > repositories, and it worked. Well, there is no sound or joystick
> > control, only the mouse, but the game starts, graphics are great etc, so
> > it's promising.
> >
> > Has anyone tried/managed to install it on Ubuntu ? Warty or Hoary ?
> >
> > And where should I go to ask for it to be added to the Breezy
> > repositories, once it's a bit stable ?
> >
> > --
> > Vince
> >
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> >
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Oh I see - I wondered why it wasnt in the repositories. I had a go
ages ago and it was quite good. Vince, try Torcs if you want a racing
game, its very good

Tom