Re: tlug: Linux Quake

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, joem wrote:

> There were a few Linuxers at last night's meeting who were
> interested in having a "Linux Quake" night.   One possibility
> would be for people to bring their own boxes to a meeting 
> site which has monitors available, and we could do installs 
> and set up a LAN.  Comments?


LAN is good.  Let's do it at the next meeting.

Another alternative, TWICS has a permanent Quake server on the
Internet.  It is running under Linux OS, Intel hardware.
On Thursday 19:30 the TWICS staff core Quake team - Bobo,
Unya, Shagger, Enviro Man, and Cow Man is willing to
challenge an HSBC led team to death matches.  We're usually
joined by Yeah! of the financial industries.  Yeah! is an
excellent player and sometimes comes in at the top.  We'll
give HSBC Yeah! to compensate for the play of some of the
novice members. TWICS has a 
set time for members vs. staff at Thursday 19:30.  We can
change this to TWICS staff vs. the financial industry
lads and ladies.  TWICS staff
will probably have a death match on Sunday at 21:00.  If
you connect with a TWICS account, the server is quake.twics.com
running both Quake and Quake World.  We'll be on the Quake
server.  If you connect from outside of the TWICS accounts,
we have to get your IP addresses in advance so that we can
allow access.  This would only be good for a death match
organized in advance for people with fixed IP addresses.

If this is too much, we can probably find a person (maybe me)
to turn their Linux box into a Quake server for the TLUG
Quake match.

BTW, the makers of Quake only support Solaris on Sparc, Windows
on Intel, and Linux on Intel as their main Quake servers.  Linux
is by far the most efficient.

For those new to Quake, there are several Quake-related
software packages for Linux, Quake X11, Quake SVGA, Quake 
World X11, Quake World SVGA, Quake server, Quake World server,
Quake spy X11, and Quake XF86.

My recommendation is to get the Quake SVGA, also known as
squake.  

Let me know if HSBC or a Linux league is going to take up
the challenge, so I have time to download the Quake training
videos and work on some drills.   ;-)   Joe volunteered
to organize the opposing team, so if you want to form a team,
contact Joe Marchak.

Regards,
Craig







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