quake 2

Forum: Games
Topic: quake 2
started by: jaapz

Posted by jaapz on Aug. 15 2007,10:28

I installed the quake 2 game by the mydsl panel, but now when i try to execute it, just nothing happens...
I restarted my computer and still no luck

Can somebody help me?

BTW: Some of the other games i install also wont work, like Tuxracer, Supermario

Posted by florian on Aug. 15 2007,12:01

I think you need to have the data for the game. Do you have that? Launch the game from a terminal, it will give you more info at what the error could be.

Posted by curaga on Aug. 15 2007,15:06

Yeah, the quake & doom engines are open source, but the data files are not.. If you don't own the game, you can get the data from the shareware version..

Tuxracer needs Opengl (aka 3d) libs (full X), I think secret maryo does too.. If you want just "normal" mario, Nes emulators work easily ;)

Posted by jaapz on Aug. 16 2007,19:55

so when i want to play the games, i just have to download the shareware version of quake or something? but what should i do with that files, where do i have to put them?

(ps: sorry for my bad englisch, im dutch

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Posted by u2musicmike on Aug. 17 2007,00:44

I didn't have to load up anything to play doom. I just got doom.dsl and loaded it up. Read the info file just in case. I was already running gtk2 and gnu-utils. Search the forum on doom and you will find out how to resize the window.

Posted by jaapz on Aug. 17 2007,09:04

yeah doom just works fine with me too but thats not the problem, its quake