Free cars software for linux

bingo-cards project consists in a program to create number, word/letter, and picture bingo cards.
These cards can be used for entertainment in the car, in a classroom (for example, to teach the element symbols for the Periodic Table), or just with your kids.
You could also create bingo cards with little pictures of everyday objects, then call the names out in Spanish, French, Italian, or German (or whatever you fancy).
Enhancements:
- Win32 Borland CBuilder 3 version ported to Kylix Linux. All tested. Only major issue is cannot select multiple pictures for import. Note for compilation to work, put included crt1.o in /usr/lib {it is a dependency of Kylix, and is crt1.o from glibc-devel 2.1.92}.
- First port of GUI to Linux using Kylix. Seems to work fine, apart from bulk adding of pictures fo picture bingo. (need to add one at a time).

CarWorld is a small driving simulator/demo I use to test various things of interest. It was mostly developed when I was a student. Car World is released with the full source code under the GNU General Public License.

The rendering

The two top pictures represent an slightly older version (v0.072) but graphically similar of CarWorld as it was presented for my project. v0.072 includes an OpenGL based renderer allowing
file input and displaying of texture mapped models with interpolated surface normals, real time projected shadows (as seen in the dino lights example).
background object
on screen command line to modify visual and simulation parameters

The mechanics

based on classical mechanics
uses standard metrics (Newtons, meters, seconds...)
there are no constraints on the environment surface
variable length time increments and variable increment number means "CarWorld time" is not dependent on frame rate.
adjustable simulation specs include: metrics, mass, moment of inertia around rotation axis, suspension pre load, compression damping, rebound damping, engine torque output, air friction, surface friction.

Cajun turns your computer into a car audio device.It can supports mp3s, CD audio, Icecast/Shoutcast, LCD/LFD display, keypad or infra-red input. Supports multiple audio streams, multiple input devices, and multiple displays (each their own size).
Main features:
- Multi-device support, including: multiple input devices and multiple output devices (displays). Both the front seats and passengers in your minivan can see whats playing on their own display. All displays are updated at the same time.
- Supports displays of varying sizes, all at the same time.
- Display content is completely customizable. Different-sized displays can display different data.
- Input and output devices may be connected and disconnected at any time. CAJUN continues to run.
- Supports keypads, infra-red remote controls, LCD/VFD displays, FM cards, CD players, MPEG audio files, Ogg/Vorbis, Shoutcast/Icecast streams, GPS devices, etc.
- Easy-to-use, documented Perl API for writing new drivers.

K!rash is a game inspired by Twisted Metal, K!rash is a "car" shooter game, where your objective will be to gain more "frags" (scores) than your opponent by destroying his car.

K!rash has several cars to choose with different characteristics. K!rash is a game for 2 players in the same PC.

EasyH10 is an open source project for the development of a software suite for iRiver H10 digital audio players. The project creates the database layout for an H10 player, without the need for iRiver Plus or Windows Media Player 10, based on music and playlist files transferred manually (e.g., drag-and-drop operation, copy command, rsync utility, etc).
EasyH10 is compatible with iriver H10 5GB, 6GB, and 20GB models shipped worldwide as well as various platforms such as Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, Linux, MacOS X, and other POSIX-like operating systems.
EasyH10 is for whom?
EasyH10 is for those users who know a bit about digital audio players and have become more accustomed to doing things the better way rather than the "newbie" way. In contrast with iRiver Plus and Windows Media Player 10, EasyH10 does not incorporate unnecessary and cumbersome features:
- Converting a music CD into music files (since we have excellent sources of free software, e.g., Exact Audio Copy, CDex, and LAME).
- Editing media information (since e.g., MP3TAG and The GodFather will do).
- Transferring music/playlist files from a local HDD to your iriver H10 player (since drag-and-drop with Explorer or rsync will do).
- Creating playlists from scratch on demand (e.g., WinAmp or foobar2000).
Whether a user finds integrated software useful or annoying depends on his or her level of knowledge regarding electronics, digital audio players in particular. Some users (including me) may prefer other excellent software for performing the tasks listed above. EasyH10 assumes a user is able to:
- Prepare music files with tag information (a good idea, but no mandatory any longer)
- Transfer music files to the iRiver H10 player without syncronization software
- Create playlist files through existing software
Do the above steps seem fairly easy? Then EasyH10 does just two remaining tasks for your H10 player, before it is ready to use:
- Media database construction, which is a necessary process for an H10 player to display song information in MUSIC mode.
- Playlist conversion, which is also a necessary process for your playlist files to become compatible (recognizable) with an H10 player.
Enhancements:
- [common] Added Hebrew support, which arranges artist/album/title/genre names in reversed order. Although the H10 firmware cant display a string in right-to-left language correctly, EasyH10 tries to improve this situation by flipping Hebrew letters in the database. EasyH10 [Win32 GUI] activates this routine automatically when running on the Hebrew locale, but one can disable it by setting LanguageRightToLeft variable to -1 in easyh10.ini. EasyH10 [CUI] uses the routine only when option -b (--bidi) is specified. The flipping routine was written by David Kohen.
- [POSIX CUI] Added automatic detection of a system character-encoding. EasyH10 detects the character encoding of the current system if its not specified with -e option.
- [POSIX CUI] Options -n, -i, and -c for database construction were removed for simplicity. EasyH10 [CUI] now has two options: -C (database rebuild) and -U (database update).
- [POSIX CUI] Show an error message when EasyH10 cannot initialize the routine for converting multi-byte characters to UCS-2.
- [POSIX CUI] Crash fix for MP3 files without read permission.
- [POSIX CUI] Crash fix for MP3 files with compilation flags enabled but with empty artist names. This fix was submitted by Carsten Pfeiffer (#1539139)
- [POSIX CUI] Bug fix for an incorrect usage of returned codes from iconv.
- [POSIX CUI] Updated the man-page.

FlatFrag is a multiplayer action shooter game. With its deathmatch fights it strives to be an entertaining arcade-style experience.
The game is played from a birds eye view and contains some 3D effects in order to make it not seem too flat. Currently only the game mode deathmatch is available, but others will probably be developed in the future.
The game has been built from scratch, though a few important libraries were used in the process. For example, OpenGL is used for fast 3D graphics and SDL provides the game with many cross-platform functions.
It is developed by a single person as a hobby project, but it is released under the terms of the GPL (GNU General Public License), which makes it Open Source software. So everybody is able to get the sourcecode and do his own changes to the project.
Main features:
- Cross-platform support currently for Linux and Microsoft Windows (planned: Mac OS X, BSD, though you can try it anywhere with the provided sourcecode)
- 3D graphics using OpenGL -- the game is played from a birds eye view, but the individual tiles are 3D cubes
- 3D sound using OpenAL -- 2D would probably be more appropriate
- SDL is used for cross-platform input, networking and window creation
- Multiplayer network games with up to 32 players (actually there is no fixed limit set yet)
- Support for Lua-scripted modifications (more like planned, but the console already expects Lua code as input)
- File types: Ogg Vorbis used for sound compression, PNG used for image compression
- Advanced particle system
- Dynamic lighting
- Bots
- Ridable cars and usable stationary guns
- 14 different weapons (some of them very unconventional)
- In-game map editor
- Game modes: deathmatch (more planned)
- Dedicated game server
- A server list function, which fetches a list of servers. You can also see the list of servers here.
- Completely free software -- free as in speech and free as in beer -- Licensed under the GPL