From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 08:12:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19924 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (gamefish.pcola.gulf.net [198.69.72.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19903 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:12:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (psalzman@localhost) by gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA08265; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:12:09 GMT (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:12:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Phillip Salzman To: Quintin Oliver cc: Patrick Gardella , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Joey Garcia Subject: Re: Games and Stuff: Conerning Doom and Quake In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just uploaded the native FreeBSD bins for Quake our FTP site at ftp://quake.gulf.net/pub/Quake/quake-1-freebsd-native.tgz. These should work fine, I've never used it - so i can't help you setup the mouse stuff and all... -- Phillip Salzman "The one with an eye cannot see..." On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Quintin Oliver wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote: > > > > > On 06-Nov-98 Quintin Oliver wrote: > > >> 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? > > > > The mailing list archives mention that the SVGAlibs were hacked to try to get > > this to work, but were unsuccessful. The xquake and qwcl.x11 both work on > > FreeBSD. > > Yes, but doesn't xquake have troubles with the mouse? I seem to remember > switching over the squake because everytime I played with the mouse xquake > would dis-able itself? > > > On a side note, the sound does not work with Luigi's pcm0 sound device, so if > > you want sound, you'll need to use the sb code. The pcm0 code does not allow > > for Quake to directly memory map the sound card (if I remember what I read > > right.) > > Ok. > > > I'm running on a 233 MMX with FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE and xquake runs acceptably > > fast. I would love to be able to get the squake to work on FreeBSD, since > > that's the path the Linux world seems to be working on. > > Yup! something I think I'm gonna do some research in. > > Regards, > > Quintin. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message