Tux Racer soundtrack
I’m not a big fan of computer games. Generally I take the view that computers are difficult enough already, without installing software that effectively makes them even more recalcitrant. However, I make an exception for Tux Racer. Originally written back in 2000 by Jasmin Patry, Tux Racer is an open-source winter sports racing video game starring the Tux, the Linux mascot penguin. She originally developed the game as a computer graphics project at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Tux Racer soundtrack is rather good too.
It was written by Joseph Toscano, also known as Zhaytee, pronounced as per his initials, JT. Since then it has popped-up all over the internet,
Tracks
These are the versions I lifted from the worldwide web back in the mid noughties
- Extreme_Tux_Racer/01_-_Options.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer/02_-_Start.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer/03_-_Race.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer/04_-_Won_Race.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer/05_-_Credits.mp3
More recently, longer versions appeared over at archive.org. Since that site has a nasty habit of disappearing or getting hacked, I grabbed those tracks too…
- Extreme_Tux_Racer_archive_org/Tux_Racer_-_Options.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer_archive_org/Tux_Racer_-_Race_1.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer_archive_org/Tux_Racer_-_Race_2.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer_archive_org/Tux_Racer_-_Title_Screen.mp3
- Extreme_Tux_Racer_archive_org/Tux_Racer_-_Won_Race.mp3
To save these files to your hard drive, right click GNU/(Linux & Windows users) or control key + click (MacOS users) on the track you wish to save & select “save as” from the context menu.
I wanna play!
Tux Racer game is still available in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories as “Extreme Tux Racer”. To install, type the following in a terminal window and press the return key:-
apt install extremetuxracer
