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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:09:15 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: doom, quake, hexen...
Message-ID:  <20120820200915.9ab5eede.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120820174640.GD17147@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:46:40 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
> > > > I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
> > > > and Jedi Knight II via wine. 
> > > 
> > > Oh, is there really nothing native?
> > 
> > No, that game is far too old, but Quake and Quake 2 have ports
> > (to native FreeBSD) which work very nicely with the original
> > files from the DOS version. 
> 
> What are the ports' names? 

The port for Quake is games/quakeforce (the binary then is
nq-sdl, e. g. "nq-glx -width 1024 -height 768", or nq-glx),
for Quake 2 it is games/quake2.

I'm not sure if wine can run those native DOS games, but
the "big" virtualisation software (VirtualBox, VMWare)
should be able to emulate a PC, then have some DOS
installed, and the game should run - _if_ the virtualisation
works properly and _fully_ supports the required
interfaces that the games _directly_ address.
I assume "doscmd" is not sufficient. Maybe "bochs"
is okay.




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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