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Chris Ross wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Joe Sloan wrote:
LOL, nobody has ever ported a game to opensuse, no need. Like I said, my quake 3 arena demo binary from 1999 has played just fine on every distro I've tried.
Except that Quake III Arena (I have the "limited edition" metal box version) has no sound on OpenSuSE 10.2 and my *favourite* game,
A kernel change in the sound ABI sometime in the past few years (I don't remember at what version exactly, it might have been 10.0) caused quake 3 arena to come up without sound, but a bit of googling produced the answer, and since then the "gamesound" init script has been part of my standard post install setup. In any event, quake 3 arena works for me, and it would probably work for you if you add the appropriate command to your startup scripts.
Terminus http://www.vvisions.com/games/details.cfm?ID=28 which I used to play constantly doesn't run on 10.2 at all :(
That's odd, I've not seen a game stop working. I might have had to add some tweak to the environment setting, but that's the extent of it.
So yes, you can play your old 1999 games if you keep an old 1999 Linux around to play them on.
Nope, no need - I play my 1999 games with a fresh suse release- it's much snappier that way - as well as with newer games (UT2k4, ET, Q4) Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org