Free your car software for linux

Toy Cars is a physics-based 2D racing game for Linux. The graphics and the interface use SDL and OpenGL.

Toy Cars is partly inspired by Micromachines and partly by the old Atari ST game called Jupiters Masterdrive.

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).

Linux ICE is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.04 for your car.
Main features:
- nGhost Media Center 0.94.5
- Linux kernel 2.6.20
- gps support via gspd
- Improved startup time
- XFCE 4.4
Enhancements:
- Linux ICE Development team is happy to release the third alpha in the development series of Linux ICE. Code named "Veyron ICE Breaker", this breed of release has a significantly reduced footprint and contains all the new technologies available in the newest version of Ubuntu 7.04.

PyMusicD is yet another jukebox daemon written in python. It was born out of my frustration with the current mp3 jukeboxes, mostly the lack of features that I want. Ive also been playing with python quite a lot lately, and this is my first attempt at a large project in python.
The player is being written to satisfy my own requirements for a car mp3 player, although theres no reason you couldnt use this for a home mp3 player, or work mp3 player.
It assumes that your network users are (mostly) benign, and doesnt take a lot of precautions against malicious users who want to screw with your mp3s. Take appropriate measures to only allow trusted users to play with it, at least until I secure it a bit better.
Its primary purpose is to run in the background, and play mp3s whenever they are in the playlist.
Usage
Unpack this to its own directory. Edit the pymusicd.conf file to your liking. Run python PyMusicD, then run python pymusic to play around with it. The client operates very similarly to most shells, and includes tab completion for commands (but not arguments... yet.)
If you wish to install this to the system, you may do so by running python setup.py install. This will install the server binary in the default place for your platform (according to distutils.) You may then edit the config file (/etc/pymusicd.conf by default) and run the server by running PyMusicD. The cli client will be named pymusic.
This software is currently in development. It is not ready for end users yet. You should have familiarity with scripting in python before you set about to use this software. That being said, if you find bugs that arent listed in TODO, and/or have problems with the software that arent listed in TODO, email me (zwhite@darkstar.frop.org) and Ill see what I can do to help you. Code patches/suggestions are always welcome.
This is known to work on my Slackware 9.0 machine using the Python 2.2.2 package that came with it. I have also tested it on my Mac OSX 10.2.8 machine with Python 2.2. I have no reason to believe that it wont work on any machine with a Python 2.x interpreter and
either mpg123 or mpg321. Your mileage may vary. If it doesnt work on your platform, please let me know. My goal is to have this work on any platform that python runs on.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug when adding an entire directory with %2A instead of *
- Added a debug command to get server state, currently only playstatus is reported, will add more as needed.
- Changed the way the stop command works to eliminate a bug.
- Check to make sure a file exists before we add it to the playlist.
- We no longer start playing music as soon as the playlist has entries.
- Instead, we wait for a play command to be issued.
- Added config file support. Defaults to /etc/pymusicd.conf or ./pymusicd.conf
- Added a setup.py and setup.cfg file. Now users can install PyMusicD using the standard "python setup.py install" method that other scripts and modules use.

RARS consists of a Robot Auto Racing Simulator.
The Robot Auto Racing Simulator (RARS) consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car.
The goal of the game is to implement such a control program in order to compete against other programmers. An official formula one season is held every year.
All RARS software and activities are free and open to the public. Currently only Windows and Unix versions are actively supported, but some old DOS and OS/2 code exists and it should be possible to get it back to work.
Enhancements:
- a human robot controlable with a joystick.
- It works on Windows/Linux in OpenGl or not. To try it,
- start Rars
- place the robot "human" in the selected drivers.
- set the poplist follow car to "human".
- Take your joystick and good luck.
- The real robots are very fast :-) The vc_start.exe file for Windows has been updated and contains the human boot too.
- Also, it contains the following bugs fixes:
- replay of movies works even when the car is not compiled.
- (Unix) Due that people did RPM distribution of rars, it happens that the Rars directory was not writable. Now, if the current directory is non-writable. The files are written in /tmp/
- (KDE) the -nd (no display) works now.

Cutter is an TCP/IP Connection cutting on Linux Firewalls and Routers.

Cutter is an open source program that uses the FIN-ACK-RST packet technique described above to abort TCP/IP connections routed over the firewall or router on which it is run. It can be called using one of the following four syntaxes.

cutter ip-address

Example: "cutter 10.10.0.45"

Cuts all connections passing through the firewall between any ports on the specified ip-address (either a "private" or "public" address) and any other hosts. This can be used to close down all incoming connections to a particular server, all outgoing connections from a particular client or all outgoing connections to a server.

cutter ip-address port

Example: "cutter 200.1.2.3 80"

Cuts all connections to or from the specified ip-address/port pair. This allows the user to be a little more specific than the previous example and allows targetting of specific services on specific hosts.

cutter ip-address-1 port-1 ip-address-2

Example "cutter 200.1.2.3 22 10.10.0.45"

Cuts all connections between ip-address-2 and ip-address-1/port-1. This allows the user to cut connections between a specified "client" and a particular service on a specified host. Our example closes host 10.10.0.45s SSH connection to server 200.1.2.3.

cutter ip-address-1 port-1 ip-address-2 port-2

Example: "cutter 200.1.2.3 22 10.10.0.45 32451"

Cuts the specific connection between the two ip/port number pairs given.

IMPORTANT WARNING

Cutter has been designed for use as a administrators tool for Linux firewalls. Its use (as is, or modified) for any other purpose is not sanctioned by the author. So - do not use this tool as a parachute, or to dry your cat, chill meat, answer your phone, drive you car, teach your kids to read or attack other peoples computer systems or networks.

This software has been designed for "legal" and "appropriate" use by network security administrators and the like. It has been written as part of a larger Linux firewall project, targetting at controlling traffic from peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa, iMesh and others into and out of a private network. It is not designed as a tool for malicious use and the author in no way sanctions such use.

Users of the software should be aware that its actions are easily detectable using a number of readily available network monitoring tools, and it makes no attempt to disguise its actions. Malicious use of "cutter" could result in a jail sentance in a number of countries around the world.

Gran Prix is a simple 2D car race game.

Gran Prix is a game writen in Python, for 2 to 4 players, with three different tracks. You can run on these tracks with four different formula 1 style cars, you can customize the max speed of the cars and the number of laps to win the race.

The game isnt very cool, but a list of new features are planed.

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.