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August 25, 2005

Waste

After some incomprehension, I finally decided to examine the README for the Quake III demo.

icon.jpg

It turned out, I had at minimum to run the game as root (or sudo on Ubuntu). Also, I was linking with a library for... duh!... the wrong video card. So once I straightened that out, I could get it to work:

$ ls -l
total 4216
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2005-08-23 23:18 demoq3
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    4096 2005-08-23 23:18 Help
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    2854 2005-08-23 23:20 icon.bmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6852 2005-08-23 23:20 icon.xpm
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      43 2005-08-25 22:25 libGL.so -> /usr/X11R6/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1851824 2005-08-23 23:20 libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.2
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 2005-08-23 23:20 MOVEDlibGL.so -> libMesaVoodooGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      22 2005-08-23 23:20 MOVEDlibMesaVoodooGL.so -> libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.2
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  554088 2005-08-23 23:20 q3ded
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  915988 2005-08-23 23:20 q3demo
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  915988 2005-08-23 23:18 q3demo.x86
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   13510 2005-08-23 23:20 README
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   16204 2005-08-23 23:20 uninstall

Now that I've not played in a while, however, the game just seems like a waste.

Posted by Mark at August 25, 2005 10:31 PM

Comments

I didn't know you were into Quake? Don't let Tim find out or you'll think that Star Wars fascination is a good thing. Consider yourself lucky, a good part of my college education was consumed in acquiring the realization that Quake/Doom is a waste.

Oh, and I expected the words "get it to work:" to be followed by a screenshot of their brutal 3D graphics or something, not a program listing :-)

Posted by: Andy at August 26, 2005 07:59 PM

Sometime after I got a computer in the 1990s but before I stopped using Windows, I played two games for an outrageously unreasonable number of hours: Sim City and Duke Nukem.

Quake III, as Fabio remarked the other day, was intentionally done with almost no story line. You simply maim and blow up your opponents without having much reason why except that those are the rules. Utterly gratuitous violence.

The listing is to remind me what I did, in case I need to set this up some day, probably for Timothee and his friends so they can blow each other away. Good thing he's not into that yet.

Posted by: Mark at August 26, 2005 09:21 PM