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Re: Quake1 under Windows XP

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From: andre... Andrew MacPherson
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:57
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In article <b821ln$32l$1...@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>, rg...@mindspring.com 
(Ron Gibb) wrote:

>  I just got a new system, which came with WindowsXP installed.  I
> tried to install and run good ol' Quake 1, and it crashes
> immediately.

I reinstalled Quake yesterday for the first time in ages and had the same 
problem on XP. Do a search for Winquake, that worked for me.

I'd give you a link to it, but I can't remember where I eventually found 
it. Many of the links Google threw up were dead... not surprising given 
Quake's age.

Andrew McP
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