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Free Software Magazine: Gentlemen, Start your Engines!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 7, 2007

“Those of you that are fans of car racing will probably
recognize this post’s title as the famous phrase that gives the
official start to the Indianapolis 500. If it happens that you are
a fan of both car racing and free software, you may well be
interested in TORCS (The Open Racing Cars Simulator).

“TORCS is a free software racing car game that uses OpenGL
libraries for 3D rendering. It comes in Linux and Windows versions.
You can compile it from source of course, but you also can have it
in binary precompiled format…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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