Re: Quake1 under Windows XP

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From: Bob
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:24

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I use TomazQuake http://tomaz.quakesrc.org/tq/ Its a port of Quake with alot
of advanced features

"Ron Gibb" <rg...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>
>

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