On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:36:32PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> Hi Alf,
>
> You sent this to me personally, did you want to keep this offlist ? I
> did not see anything particularly private in your message, but I'm
> replying offlist in any case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
>
Oh, no (beside wanting to have a ioquake3 port and not providing one;)
I found it reasonable off topic but the follow ups on ports@ seem to
prove me wrong!
So feel free to quote me/CC the list.
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:09:47PM +0200, Alf Schlichting wrote:
> | On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:30:32AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> | > I hate you.
> | >
> | >
> | > This is going to cost me many sleepless nights ;(
> | >
> | > Anyway .. thanks for the port, my meager laptop (with ATI Radeon LW
> | > RV200 Mobility 7500 M7) seems to have no problems running this at a
> | > semi reasonable speed. Smoother than games/quake2, with lots of
> | > options turned down.
> | >
> | > Sadly, unlike the statement on the website ("I think the mouse doesn't
> | > suck anymore also, though still, your mileage may vary."), mousing
> | > around was horrible (jumping all over the place, uncontrollable). As
> | > this is the only way for me to play, I can't really play right now.
> | >
> | > I think this also allows for playing with the original pk3 files, so
> | > I'll have to dig those up from somewhere.
> | Should not work i think. Last time i checked they had some stuff
> | hardcoded into their binary ("baseoa" instead of ID's "baseq3" and some
> | more). A separate ioquake3 (the underlying engine) port would be great;)
>
> That seems like a wasted effort. Two ports doing exactly the same
> thing but with different datafiles ? Sounds to me like installing
> mpg123 to play "openbsd43.mp3" and mpg321 to play "openbsd42.mp3".
>
> Maybe there are specific changes to the source that are
> openarena-only, but from what I can tell so far this is not the case.
> Once I have finished copying my baseq3/ to one drm-capable laptop I
> have, I will check to make sure Q3A-datafiles work with openarena (by
> copying them into baseoa/)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
>
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tried it, seems to work with some command line args:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5268$ cd /home/alf/Quake\ III\ Arena/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5269$ ./openarena.i386
ioq3+oa 1.35 linux-i386 May 27 2008
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa/q3dade12.pk3 (42 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa/mc-oa-mappack.pk3 (463 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa/map-estatica-cardigan.pk3 (77 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa/ik3dm2.pk3 (40 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa/ctfcurling.pk3 (32 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseoa
./baseoa
----------------------
654 files in pk3 files
Couldn't load default.cfg
Doesn't work.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5270$ ./openarena.i386 +set fs_game baseq3 +set fs_basegame
baseq3 <
ioq3+oa 1.35 linux-i386 May 27 2008
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3/q3dade12.pk3 (42 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3/mc-oa-mappack.pk3 (463 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3/map-estatica-cardigan.pk3 (77 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3/ik3dm2.pk3 (40 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3/ctfcurling.pk3 (32 files)
/home/alf/.openarena/baseq3
./baseq3/ztn3tourney1.pk3 (6 files)
./baseq3/ztn3dm2.pk3 (6 files)
./baseq3/ztn3dm1.pk3 (10 files)
...
Works. (didn't really play it long, just killed a bot in single player).
