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Subject: Re: Quake's out, where's that Linux ELF emulation?
To: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 21:22:54 -1000 (HST)
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Stephen Hocking
>
>As most people in the civilised world are now aware, the iD-inspired mania of 
>quake has started, with both DOS & Linux versions found in the appropriate 
>directory on ftp.cdrom.com. However, the Linux version uses the ELF libraries. 
>Any chance of a few patches to the Linux emulator.....
>
>	Stephen

>From the NetBSD camp:

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 04:37:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-announce@NetBSD.ORG
Cc: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Quake Deathmatch works!
>The Quake Deathmatch test works under NetBSD-current, with
>COMPAT_LINUX and an /emul/linux/lib populated with ELF libraries.
>
>Local playing should work on any recent kernel; for network playing,
>you'll need some changes I just committed to emulate various Linux
>SIOC* calls.
>
>I'm going to look at the sound support...