Quake (First part of the Game Saga) on Linux?

Komakino · 04-19-2004, 04:00 PM

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach $file (`ls *`){
        my $up = lc($file);
        chomp($up);
        chomp($file);
        print $up."\n";
        `mv $file $up`;

}

Save the above script to a file, then chmod +x it to make it executable. Put it in the quake directory and run it and it will convert your filenames to lowercase. You might have to change the directory ID1 to lowercase yourself as I don't think my script will do directories. You will also need the quake.pak file in the id1 directory changed to lowercase.

Komakino · 04-19-2004, 04:02 PM

Oh, that assumes you have perl installed

ludeKing · 05-06-2004, 10:05 AM

Right I'm going to resurrect this thread. I have the same problem when ruinning the linux quake binary (either squake, quake.x11 or glquake): file or directory not found.

I followed the directions to a tea and nothing.
WHY?

I have quake3 running very nicely by the way, i just want quake 1 and 2 up!

ravage · 07-06-2005, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ludeKing
I followed the directions to a tea and nothing.
WHY?

Where did you get the quake binaries from? If they're the ones distributed by id software, they're too old to work on a newish linux distribution and that's why the "no such file" error appears. They were built against libc5, you will most likely be using libc6 if your distribution was built in the last 5 or so years.

You have 3 options:

locate a prebuilt quake package for your linux distribution

find a quake engine modification you like and use that

get the quake source and compile it yourself

ludeKing · 07-06-2005, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ravage
Where did you get the quake binaries from? If they're the ones distributed by id software, they're too old to work on a newish linux distribution and that's why the "no such file" error appears. They were built against libc5, you will most likely be using libc6 if your distribution was built in the last 5 or so years.

You have 3 options:

locate a prebuilt quake package for your linux distribution

find a quake engine modification you like and use that

get the quake source and compile it yourself

Various sites, including id, but thanks for the reply, I'll look into it

p.s. talk about resurrecting an old thred...again!

ravage · 07-06-2005, 05:04 AM

heh... didn't notice the date, just saw someone came to my website from this thread

v00d00101 · 07-08-2005, 01:42 PM

For quake, i use fuhquake client.

http://www.fuhquake.net/