[HLUG] quake 2

[Julian Robbins]

j michaelson wrote:

>hello all,
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Hi John and others. Theres an article in this months Tux maagzine 
http://www.tuxmagazine.com (free on the website), about running windows 
games with Cedega. It might give a bit more background on running 
windows games on Linux via  a subscription service.

Julian

>the latest news in my search for open source games....
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>nexuiz -
>i downloaded the latest version of nexuiz (1.2.1), but it was too big
>to fit on my puny usb key. instead i downloaded the 1.1 to 1.2.1 patch
>and applied it to a copy of nexuiz 1.1 that i got from a dvd. it
>worked the first time i ran it, but it was an ugly crude piece of
>work. the second and third time it ran it just had a black screen with
>no graphics. i had to control-alt-f1 to open up a terminal and then
>use top and kill to get rid of it. not impressed.
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>quake2-
>this is available as a debian package ( 
>http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=quake2&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
> ) but it doesn't come with the data files for all the graphical stuff
>because that wasn't released under the gpl when the engine was. i may
>have found a solution. there is a project called tenebrae ( 
>http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/  ) which seems to have made there own
>data file. i'll have a play with it and report back.
>
>john.
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