Re: Linux Quake on 2.0.0?

[James Ellison <jellison@example.com>]

More quake notes, from the list ...

> |> Anybody able to get the Linux version of Quake 0.91 to work on
> |> Linux 2.0.4 with the new libc?  I get a core dump right after all
> |> the various startup messages have scrolled past.
> |
> |There is no Quake 0.91 binary for Linux, as far as I know. Try running
> |the
> |test version of Quake (qtest1.zip) and using the linux_qtest1a.tgz
> |executables. Works fine if you have a recent XF86 server and libs.
> 
> Yes, there's a linux shareware quake:
> 
> ftp://ftp.lek.net/pub/linux/quake/intel_linux_quake091.tgz
> 
> now, let us never speak of it again.. :-)
> 
> ---
> 
> Seriously, I can get linux quake "0.91"  (in the game it says it's
> 0.92)  to run without problems.   Unfortunately, it refuses to run
> for me in Kernels 2.0.1 - 2.0.4 -- and I've tried them all. No doubt
> this is because of the "new and improved" USSlite :-)
> 
> When trying to run it on 2.0.1+ opens a window, begins unpacking the
> PAK file, then shuts down with "floating point exception" 
> 
> It runs great in 2.0.0 -- well, the sounds are choppy, due to the
> fact that it mixes the samples at too high a sampling rate: 44 KHz,
> much higher than the DOS version does, and sucking up too much CPU
> power.  Fortunately this can all be corrected with environment
> variables:
> 
> QUAKE_SOUND_SAMPLEBITS = <8 or 16, i suppose>
> QUAKE_SOUND_SPEED =  <11000, 22050 are good values>
> QUAKE_SOUND_CHANNELS = <1 or 2, i guess>
> 
> System info:  P5-100 Neptune II ; 16 Mb ; kernel 2.0.0 ; libc 5.4.2 ;
>     Xfree86 3.1.2E ;  ld.so 1.8.1 ; fvwm 2.0.42 -- I guess that's all
>     that's remotely relevant.
> 


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