From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 10:46:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE0316A401 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@crowders.org) Received: from mail1.crowders.org (mail1.crowders.org [62.49.128.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A342513C471 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@crowders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.crowders.org [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.crowders.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD6828853; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:45:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.crowders.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.crowders.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29350-14; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:45:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.66.17] (suse10.crowders.org [192.168.66.17]) by mail1.crowders.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589F428820; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:45:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Steve Crowder To: Ulrich Spoerlein In-Reply-To: <20070301215003.GB1548@roadrunner.q.local> References: <1172779730.3748.19.camel@suse10.crowders.org> <20070301215003.GB1548@roadrunner.q.local> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: What is this thing you call organisation? Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:46:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1172918768.3712.8.camel@suse10.crowders.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old Linux Quake II Mods X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: steve@crowders.org List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:46:46 -0000 Hi Ulrich Your comments made me think about this from a different angle, r1q2ded-old was/is the problem. I have managed to get it all working. I am now configuring the server to how I want it to be so I can indulge this nostalgia trip. Mr.White of LMCTF confirmed that the original source code is lost to me also. Thanks On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:50 +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > Steve Crowder wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been trying to resurrect some old Quake II Linux compiled mods on > > my FreeBSD 6.1 amd64 machine. Using the linux binary r1q2ded-old from: > > http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/ > > > > I have tried to run Lokis Minions CTF Linux gamei386.so from here: > > http://tastyspleen.net/quake/downloads/mods/lokis_minion/ > > Ah, good old LMCTF, > > I concated the developers some years ago and the apparently lost their > source code, so a FreeBSD native version is not going to appear. > > You would need some old, but not too ancient, linux binary for Quake2. > The original linux client by id software is at least unable to open the > sound device on FreeBSD due to a "wrong" order of OSS-ioctl(). > > Perhaps you can get some old binary versions of Quake2Forge and try your > luck with these. > > On the other hand, any modification that retained ABI compatibility with > the original Q2 client should work. > > I think, we both now understand, why John Carmack used a kind of VM for > the Q3 modifications :) > > Ulrich Spoerlein -- Steve Crowder