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Article #75180Re: Cannot INSTALL
From: Iain
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:52
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:52
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Stephen Howe wrote: > "Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:1115128426.128359.266040@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > > > How do I INSTALL Quake in Windows XP? It won't run the batch file or > > deice.exe. > > Why do you want to install Quake? It is DOS-based. > > > Nobody dare mention Winquake or Glquake again -- How do I INSTALL? > > And why not? I am using WinQuake 1.09 on XP Professional, Service Pack 2. > I am playing both Quake and the 2 expansion packs : Scourge of Armagon and > Dissolution of Eternity at 1280x1024 resolution, no problem. > Sound, Keyboard, Mice, CD Music by NIN works likes a dream. > > Your best bet: Get WinQuake going. > If you are having problems, mention them here. > You stand more chance of running this under Windows XP satisfactorily than > ever getting the original Quake-for-DOS working 100% under XP. > INSTALL INSTALL INSTALL. Either way I need to install. It doesn't matter what I do -- someone always mentions WinQuake(nothing to do with installation). ~Iain
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake Subject: Re: Cannot INSTALL Date: 5 May 2005 06:52:02 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <1115301122.642258.288790@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1115128426.128359.266040@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <427983d8$0$320$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.176.42.183 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1115301128 2239 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2005 13:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:52:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <427983d8$0$320$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=146.176.42.183; posting-account=3r2fWgwAAADOYgONtKdxmN0hKbteLEa4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit