🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:49:13 GMT, Ron Gibson wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:45:30 +0000, John Moore wrote:
> 
> RE: Patch to make Doom 3 run under W98SE
>  
>>> ehmmm...
>>> "Are you sure?"
>> 
>> Quite sure.  Done it with both Doom 3 and Quake 4.  Both times they
>> informed me during setup that I was installing to a unsupported OS, but
>> gave me the choice of installing anyway.
>> 
>> BTW, both my copies of Doom 3 and Quake 4 are bought in the UK published
>> by Activision if that makes any difference.
>  
> I can confirm that indeed it works perfectly with Doom 3. Many thanks.
> 
> System: W98SE, 1GB DDR/ dual channel, GeForce 6600, 3GHz P4
> 
> It did stutter a bit at first but second time I opened it all was well.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I'd about given up hope as I don't normally even run windows. I prefer
> Linux. It's supposed to run under Linux but for some reason the screen
> that asks for the CD key can't fit all the numbers in the space they
> provide.
> 
> Does anyone know how the heck you get the CD key in that box under Linux?
> If I do it like this...
> 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Instead of
> 
> xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
> 
> Is still 2 characters short. Include the dashes and it's 6 characters too
> small. 
> 
> IOW it will only accept a string 16 long with NO dashes. The key is 18
> long and includes 4 dashes = 22 characters.

One thing you can try is copy the "doomkey" file from the "base" folder
of your Windows installation to the same location in your linux install.

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