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SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

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post #6

Wow, this has been in the making since forever. I truly admire the dedication that went into this project for over a decade now. Congrats on that release!

Seeing as it's one of most popular free software games, this is sorta like Wine coming out of the alpha after eighteen years when it was actively used by game publishers for ports to MacOS.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#12
post #5

Great news! Now if only we could get FreeCol [1] 1.0.0. Or at least 0.12.0. If you like free strategy games or loved the original Sid Meier's Colonization, this is a must-play. [1]: http://www.freecol.org/ .

> FreeCol 0.11.6 released

> Saturday, 17 October 2015

Ouch. You just made me wonder if Widelands (Settlers II clone) still exists, since I hadn't looked at it in what feels like at least a decade. It seems like it does, but development happens at a snail's pace:

https://wl.widelands.org/news/

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#14
Awesome work! It's amazing how the community keeps on making the best things out of it, I can't be any less excited by all the progress they are making.

I'm pretty sure that there will be another online version of supertuxkart.com as part of their "supertuxkart", but I've never seen it mentioned on HN.

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#18
I remember playing this a while ago and I just introduced my 4 year old son to this game (a couple of weeks ago).

Needless to say we are big fans and being able to play over the lan will be awesome!

Re: SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

#19
SuperTuxKart is one of the best examples of how open source software can be on par and even superior to commercial software.

As a Linux user I can confidently say that a lot of software for the platform is rough around the edges, but SuperTuxKart is absolutely awesome.

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