Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:15:16 +0000 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> Cc: Joey Garcia <gummibear@mediaone.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Games and Stuff: Conerning Doom and Quake Message-ID: <3642F664.16EBC03A@ukonline.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981106084417.20340A-100000@orion.smlt.com>
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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 :-) Chris R. -- Christopher Raven E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk & ICQ: 2254369 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ "The Power To Serve" http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ "A PC is for life, not just for Xmas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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