QuakeForge.... How to make it work?

[Muiske]

Good day.



After trying to compile it from source (with help of the documents) several times with always an error message making it stop, I learned that there is a synaptic repository for quakeforge. I have now installed the necessary packages and tried running the game. It does run, but I have no idea to set it up properly. These are my issues:

- Where do I put the pak files so I can run the single player version (I don't need quakeworld as I run that in another client)?

- Where to put the config files?? How can you set them up for autorun?

- Is there anyone out there who has tried to run the original Quake 1 mission packs (Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity) run with QuakeForge? I have read it SHOULD be possible, but I guess it's nightmare.

So, does anyone have some tips?

Thanks.

[Muiske]

Ok, problems solved.... was a piece of cake actually. The pak files are in /usr/share/games/quake/id1, you can put the mission pack paks there as well and then run the game with command line parameters -game hipnotic or -game rogue.

All in all it took me 30 minutes to find this out.

[ardya]

Good day.



After trying to compile it from source (with help of the documents) several times with always an error message making it stop, I learned that there is a synaptic repository for quakeforge. I have now installed the necessary packages and tried...

Can you give me a URL for this repository? Seems my quakeforge 0.5.5 src compile won't build on edgy.

Compile error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include -g -march=i686 -O2 -frename-registers -finline-limit=32000 -Winline -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -fstrict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -fno-common -MT cd_file.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/cd_file.Tpo -c cd_file.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/cd_file.o
cd_file.c:87: error: static declaration of 'bgmvolume' follows non-static declaration
../../../include/QF/sound.h:126: error: previous declaration of 'bgmvolume' was here
make[3]: *** [cd_file.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/quakeforge-0.5.5/libs/audio/cd'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/quakeforge-0.5.5/libs/audio'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/quakeforge-0.5.5/libs'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Thanks!

[opt1k]

Ok this is very weird why this is no longer included in any distributions.

but u can get .deb binaries here
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/...an/quakeforge/
dpkg -i *common*
dpkg -i *qfcc*
dpkg -i *deb

if these files are gone you can always use alien to convert rpms to debs?

For quake 1 cd install heres one way...

Insert original quake cd.
Open with wine ... diece.exe. Install to drive C when prompted.

open terminal

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/QUAKE
wine resource.exe
cd ID1
mv PAK0.PAK pak0.pak
mv PAK1.PAK pak1.pak
sudo bash
mkdir -pv /usr/share/games/quake/id1
mv *pak /usr/share/games/quake/id1
rm -rf ~/.wine/drive_c/QUAKE
ln -sv /usr/share/games/quake/id1 /usr/share/games/quakeforge/id

this game may or may not need alsa and osscompat?
apt-get install oss-compat alsa-oss

[opt1k]

Attaching quakeforge debs...

[opt1k]

Still attaching...

[opt1k]

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[opt1k]

Hopefully this helps anyone else looking for the QuakeForge files.

[opt1k]

If sound is choppy remove the alsa-plugin and try
echo "nq-sdl 0 0 direct" >/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

[badclustercleber]

It returns Missing GFX.WAD.

Can you help?

Thanks