Monday, October 08, 2007

Quake/Quakeworld

To install Quake on your Linux system, you'll need some flavor of the official Quake distribution from id.
This will be either the retail DOS/Windows CD−ROM that you bought at your favorite software store, or the
shareware version you downloaded from the net (see below for details on acquiring the shareware version).
Alternatively, if you've already got Quake installed on a DOS/Windows machine, you can use the relevant
files from that installation.
2.1 Minimum Requirements
You will need, as a bare minimum, the following:
A Pentium 90 or better (133 recommended) computer •
Linux Quake HOWTO
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16 MB RAM (24 recommended) •
The Quake CD−ROM or the shareware version (quake106.zip) •
Linux kernel version 2.0.24 or later •
libc 5.2.18 or later •
One of the following:
X11R5 or later (for xquake) •
SVGAlib 1.2.0 or later (for squake and glquake) •
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30−80 megabytes free disk space (depends on how you install) •
Access to the root account of the machine you're installing on •
Optional:
A supported soundcard •
A 3Dfx VooDoo Graphics or VooDoo2 3D graphics accelerator card. •
Mesa 2.6 or later (for glquake) •