Tux Typing Rising Again | overstimulate

Wow, it's been a long time since I've touched Tux Typing. It had started to bit rot (due to a SDL_ttf blowing up when it tries to render white space). I had been getting regular emails about bugs (especially on mac -- wonder if it is the same issue?) and requests for enhancements.

tux typing running on linux

I also moved tuxtyping to svn. Tux Typing is hosted on sourceforge, so no nice Trac goodness, only viewvc. During the shuffle I took the opportunity to reorganize the files/directories, which of course probably broke every build script besides my hand made makefile... I hope I can get Cal and a few of the other Tux4Kids guys to help fix this :)

My 2006 Goal is to get Tux Typing to the point where it can be including on the awesome OLPC project. I'm fully devoting myself for the rest of the year to accomplishing this and similar goals for userscripts.org, book burro, my unrelease "read-write-web" project, CoCoA, ... (got a long list and I'm working through them slowly)

If you have access to an OLPC, it would be awesome if you could check out SVN and let me know if it works (requires sdl libraries):

svn co https://tuxtype.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tuxtype

Responses to "Tux Typing Rising Again"

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 Ian McKellar says:
So, you should talk to the RHAT guys - see if they can lend you an OLPC. Also there's a dev environment you can set up to test and build packages if you don't have the hardware.
Sat, 03 Feb 2007 Lloyd says:
Did you read this goal? Regardless, you are so generous with your time and skills!
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 Peter B. says:
Wow! You made Tux Typing? I used to love that game! Hehe, I still have it installed :O It's a bit easy for me now, but I learnt to type really quickly with this.