Flatsonar

TORCS

by TORC contributors

The Open Racing Car Simulator

Dangerous permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-2.0+ v1.3.8
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About

TORCS 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.

TORCS features many different cars, tracks, and opponents to race against. You can steer with a joystick, steering wheel, mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skid marks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties, aerodynamics and much more.

The game play allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship. Enjoy racing against your friends in the split screen mode with up to four human players.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • fetches from plib.sourceforge.net over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes (x2)
    source:insecure-url
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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