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Re: Quake on linux



"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
> 
> OA>> or, while we're on the subject - does anyone have any experience
> OA>> _playing_ Quake on linux ?
> 
> yeah, like I entered the room and that monster came out of the box and I
> took the nail gun and killed it and the next door there was three of them
> but I got to the elevator and dropped on them grenades and then there was
> trapdoor and I fell and they were on me but I hid myself around the corner
> and strafed out shot from the shtuzer and then get back and so I.... Oh
> well, is *this* what do you want to hear? :)
> 
> Ok.
> There's no problem running Quake on Linux. You buy Quake disk, download
> Linux Quake binary from ID's ftp, install as written in the docs, start
> the mode which you prefer (X or SVGA, with/without acceleration if you
> have 3Dfx) and rock-n-roll.
> --
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> Stanislav Malyshev      /\  Stronger than Morgul-spells
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Check out 

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/support/docs/Linux/mdw/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO.html

Yep, there is actually a Quake-HOWTO!
(though I haven't got a clue about how good/updated it is...)