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Re: Cannot INSTALL

#75187
From: Iain
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 23:43
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McGrandpa wrote:
> "Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1115554707.615894.177470@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
> > McGrandpa wrote:
> >> "Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1115472887.429452.183440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com
> >>> McGrandpa wrote:
> >>>> "Dan C" <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> wrote in message
> >>>> news:pan.2005.05.05.19.10.58.81062@invalid.lan
> >>>>> On Thu, 05 May 2005 06:52:02 -0700, Iain wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 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).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Were you born ignorant, or has a lifetime of spoon-feeding made
> >>>>> you that way.  Do something for yourself, you lazy dweeb.
> >>>>
> >>>> He was just trying to get someone to tell him HOW he can get the
> >>>> gamefiles unpacked and on his hd.  I'd call the person stumped,
not
> >>>> lazy.
> >>>
> >>> I wouldn't normally be so persistant and uneloquent about it, but
> >>> this question has been asked many many times by people and not
one
> >>> single person ever reads one of the questions properly and so
> >>> everyone harps on about WinQuake and such -- I thought putting
> >>> "INSTALL" in capitals in the original post would be enough, but
> >>> someone still said "Use WinQuake".
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your answers elsewhere in the thread, btw.
> >>>
> >>> ~Iain
> >>
> >> You're welcome :)  Did you get it installed yet?
> >> McG.
> >
> > Yep -- Deice wouldn't run in a DOS box until I found that my
> > autoexec.nt(necessary for running many DOS-based software in XP)
file
> > was missing, for some reason, but got it running in the end.
> >
> > ~Iain
>
> Good, excellent! :)  BTW- I discovered that installing XP SP2
installed
> its crap version of opengl32.dll.  Apparently everywhere it occurred.

> To get GLQuake and GLQuakeWorld working again, I simply took my
updated
> vid drivers version from system32 and copied it to my Quake folder.
> That now works fine.  I'm glad.  I had been missing my little monster

> buddies ;)  And I did NOT like eQuake/FUH Quake for single player at
> all.  Have you tried the grapple hook yet?

I have Grapple Hook as part of the Killer quake Pack -- tried that?

~Iain
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From: "Iain" <iain_inkster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot INSTALL
Date: 8 May 2005 16:43:42 -0700
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