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Re: Quake on winxp?

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From: Shaggy
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:30
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On 8 Dec 2002 17:33:10 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
<angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>On 08-Dec-02 08:49:19, Shaggy said
>>On 7 Dec 2002 19:15:1 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
>><angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>It a Gforce Ti with 64 megs I believe.
>
>
>>if your xp drive is fat32 try a win98 boot disk and install quake from dos
>>you can get a w98boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
>
>I actually tried that before but it threw up some error - I think.
>
>
>
>>the quake install files used to be in LHA format which from memory
>>winzip will open you could also try winzip to extract the files.
>
>LHA! You're talking my language now, that's Amiga stuff. No, I think its
>ICE or something.
>
>But anyway, I've managed to get it installed now (probably because I was
>doing something daft in the first place) and I downloaded the glquake
>patch.
>
>It works!    :)
>
>But what started this is that I wanted to play multiplayer Quake with my
>son using the pc while I staggered around like a drunk on the Amiga,
>connected by serial link.
>
>On my Amiga version of the game it has TCP, modem and serial multiplayer
>options. The pc appears to only offer TCP, is that right?    :(
>
>

modem, serial play was dropped from winquake/glquake

ice is the name of the quake dos unpacker but it's still LHA format
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Subject: Re: Quake on winxp?
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