TORCS

[mistergreen77]

I've played this and it is very good. I am trying to find out more about the licensing. The program is covered by GNU license - so it is definitely free. Some of the other components may have restrictions though, I am looking in to this.

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TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows. The source code of TORCS is licensed under the GPL.

TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, ...), aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, ...) and much more. The gameplay allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship.

TORCS was initially written by Eric Espié and Christophe Guionneau, substantial parts have been added by other contributors.

http://torcs.sourceforge.net/