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From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Quake under FreeBSD? -Working, kinda (How good is SVGAlib support?)
Date: 14 Jul 1997 22:45:33 +1000
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adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk (Adam Spiers) writes:
>In article <5qblbr$cth@wombat.cs.monash.edu.au>,
>Bernd Meyer <bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>> Why? What's wrong with the xf86quake version?
>It's a pain to set up.
Huh? It's easier than squake.
Or do you talk about XF86 in general? How many setup tools do you need?
And what are you using linux for, anyway, if you haven't managed to set up
X yet?
>It's difficult or impossible to get it at a decent resolution.
You just switch X into the resolution you want, and type "./xf86quake".
That's it. Doesn't sound too hard to me. The first step can be achieved
by CTRL-ALT-Plus
>It often messes around with the mouse sensitivity in bizarre and broken
>ways.
Huh?
>It's waaaaay out of date, and so has many more bugs in, and none of
>the nifty new stuff.
Such as?
>It doesn't support QuakeWorld.
You get that point.
>It doesn't have CD audio support built in.
Neither does the last SVGA version I have seen. But playing a CD is pretty
easy under linux, anyway...
>It's totally unsupported (squake and qwcl are officially unsupported
>but in reality new versions with bugfixes and enhancements /do/ come
>out regularly). Pretty much nobody uses it or cares about it.
Thanks for calling me a nobody....
Now, how would you play Quake on a Matrox Millenium, under linux? In
something other than 320x200?
Bernie
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