🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:15:56 -0700, "Ron Gibb" <rg...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Greetings...
>  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.  When
>attempting to run the quake.exe executable, I get a GPF with the following
>info:
>
>Quake v1.06
>Locked 1 Mb image
>Locked 11 Mb data
>malloc'd: 11833344
>Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
>General Protection Fault at eip=000452cb
>and a bunch of other addresses, etc.
>
>I try to run the q95 batch file, it also crashes, without explaining itself.
>
>My exposure to XP is going on 48 hours or so, so I may be missing something
>very basic.  There doesn't appear to be a 'MS-Dos Mode', or anything like
>that.  So what is one to do?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
>Ron
>
>

the original quake is a dos game which won't run under xp or win2k
you need to use winquake or glquake if you have a 3dcard that supports opengl
q95 bat file is not needed with win32 quake programs (winquake glquake
quakeworld)