Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:34:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> To: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Games and Stuff: Conerning Doom and Quake Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981109103314.24887B-100000@orion.smlt.com> In-Reply-To: <3642F664.16EBC03A@ukonline.co.uk>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Christopher Raven wrote: > Quintin Oliver wrote: > > > > Yo! > > > > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Joey Garcia wrote: > > > > > Hey all! > > > > > > Well I was playing with the ports again and I decided to install Doom. > > > Well, I installed it then turned on the Linux emulation stuff and tried > > > to run it. It complained about a display, so then I tried running in > > > Windows (256 color mode). Well, it started up and right when it got > > > into the demo, it crashed/exited. > > > > > > I was almost certain that this question had been asked in the past, so I > > > tried checking out the mailinglist archives but I didn't find anything > > > referring to that problem. Although, I have seen it in Linux mailing > > > lists, but I couldn't find the answers. > > > > > > I have also been wondering if anyone has gotten Quake to work with > > > FreeBSD. I didn't see Quake specifically in the ports collection, > > > although I did notice a quakeserver. If I could run Quake with FreeBSD, > > > where could I get it? (I hope the neccessary info will come with it.) > > > > I normally play Quake on Linux, I copied 'squake' onto FreeBSD howevr it > > had troubles finding the SVGALibs. Perhaps there is some way we can use > > the SVGALibs in Linux on BSD? or emulate them. > > > > I downloaded Squake from: http://threewave.planetquake.com/linux/ - you > > will find all the Quake goodies there, I'd imagine Xquake will work but it > > runs really so. Squake runs in text mode is the SVGA Lib's and moves like > > a beast on my p133 linux workstation. > > > > If you get it to work *please* let me know, or perhaps we can work > > together on making it work? > > > > Regards, > > > > Quintin. > > > > > > Everything I managed to glean on the subject resides at: > > http://dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org/~chrisr/games.html#quake > > > Hope that helps you both some :-) That's great! thank you very much :-) Regards, Quintin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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