Have time to waste? Me neither. Still, I managed to find time to play Tux Racer and so should you. I was searching for K-Meleon, an open-source lightweight web browser based on Mozilla’s rendering engine (which is quite good). Anyhow, the K-Meleon website is missing (if you know anything about the project status or where the website went, let me know).
A Google search for K-Meleon took me to SoureForge.net, a site where open-source developers can host their projects for free. One of these projects is Tux Racer. It’s a simple and fun little open source racing game (I’ve always loved racing games. I rule at MarioCart and loved F-Zero). It ran nicely on my machine (a PIII500/256MB/Voodoo3) at the bad-ass resolution of 1600 by 1200 (you have to edit a text config file to change the resolution).
The best part is there are only a few levels so far, so you don’t have to worry about a long term addiction (like matt has to flash mini-golf).
silverorange (where Steve and I work for anyone who doesn’t know) has the music of the game resonating from at least three computers within earshot of my desk. If you are a manager, beware. This game appears to be addictive on Tony Hawk levels…
Tux Racer stole the best days of my life. I was into it about a year ago but managed to kick it in exchange for Pingus the free Lemmings clone. I love Lemmings!
Just thought you should know here is your missing browser:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
If you had not got distracted by games you’d be surfing safer. 😀