You're welcome. I plan to check out half-life next
(sometime!).
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:17:09 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alan & Brett,
Thanks for the info. Turns out it was Half Life and
not Quake, which is
cool because I've played that less.
I've heard about the Transgaming folks before when
checking out Wine. (I
ran Quicken 2001 for a while under Linux.)
Good to know there may be a way to get some of this
working.
Thanks much,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:38 AM
To: Gentoo-User
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Windows Quake family
under Gentoo
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:27:46AM -0700, Mark Knecht
wrote:
> Hi,
> At $14.95 for Quake Platinum Edition at Fry's
today, I was
thinking about
> getting a copy for my son to keep him busy for the
summer. (Or
part of it
> anyway.) What is the status of playing any Windows
games under
Gentoo Linux?
> Is there a good site for finding out about this sort
of stuff?
Pretty much any id game (q1, q2, q3) work fine, just
download the update
from ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux (I think)
and install that,
then copy the pak0.pk3 off of the windows CD into the
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3 directory on your hard
drive (default
install location).
Similar setups exist for return to castle wolfenstein,
enemey territory
(RTCW spin off just released).... If there isn't a
linux port or
update, you can try it under wine. I play Half life and
it's expansion
packs (opposing force and blue shift) under winex-cvs
just perfectly.
At http://winehq.com you can find other windows apps and
how well they
work. WineX is from transgaming, and you can find a
list of games that
work with their wine fork here:
http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?keywords=&search=Searc
h&working=0&order=working
Most of the gaming under linux requires a decent video
card (nvidia or
ATI... I've had no problems with my nvidias, no idea how
ATIs are)
though.
Other websites for linux gaming are:
http://happypenguin.org
http://www.linuxgames.com/
and more found via google....
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Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net
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