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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.


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