[SATLUG] Looking for fellow linux gamers

[John Choate]

Do you really wish to run winquake.exe?? Quake 1 with no GL acceleration? Or 
do you want to get glquake.exe running with wine? Anyway...
I use the Darkplaces engine for Q1 and it works extremely well. The graphics 
are updated, but not overdone... it still looks and feels like glquake but 
with colored lighting. I tried tenebrae a couple years ago and didn't care 
for it and its bumpmapping... made Q1 not seem like Q1 anymore and 
performance was disappointing on an FX-5700U. Darkplaces is smooth and fast. 
Eleven years after I first got Q1 and I still often run it for the fun of 
ripping things up with the SNG :)

On Friday 07 September 2007 09:40:36 Jonathan Hull wrote:
> What is wrong with the modded engines? I actually prefer them over the
> vanilla engine because a lot of them have improved graphics and such.
>
> The only reason I see not to use them is if you are playing online
> with those that have the vanilla client, but who plays Q1 online
> anymore?
>
> If you must use the original client, I dunno, have you tried Dosbox?
>
> On 9/7/07, David Salisbury <david.salisbury at momentumweb.com> wrote:
> > >> On Linux (native): Open Arena, Doom 3, UT2004, UT (99), Unreal Gold,
> > >> Postal 2, Tetrinet (gtetrinet), a few others.
> > >> Linux via Cedega/Wine: Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, a few others.
> >
> > Just throwing out there that's there's another Linux gamer on the list!
> > :) I like playing the old-school Descents (1 and 2), Frets on Fire, Quake
> > 2-4, Enemy Territory and ETF, and UT2004 natively, and then CS,
> > CS-Source, Starcraft, The Ship, HL and HL 2 through Wine, among others. 
> > And I don't play them all on a regular basis either, but when I can!  I
> > also like to try the new games and see what I can get to work in Linux
> > and what doesn't work. My wife would love it if I could get Bejeweled 2
> > going in Linux, but so far, no dice. :)
> >
> > David
> >
> > PS  If anyone has had any luck getting the ORIGINAL Quake 1 client to run
> > on Linux, I would love to hear about it!  And I don't mean FUHQuake,
> > Tenebrae, etc, I mean, like, WINQUAKE.EXE or just QUAKE.EXE from the
> > original Quake 1 (or a Linux derivative thereof).  I can get some of the
> > "modded" engines to run but can't find a good way to just to get
> > straight-up, vanilla Quake 1 to run on my Ubuntu 7.04 box.
> >
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