Re: quake 1 on windows XP?

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From: Havard C Skale
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:30

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In article <Nxn4e.17$d%.1@fe09.lga>, steve@nomail.sorry says...
> Sorry if this has been gone through before...
> 
> OK, I have my old Quake I disc and my PC running XP.  I understand about
> glquake and winquake running on XP, but how to get Quake I installed in the
> first place?  All I get is an error telling me that Quake won't run on
> windows NT.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
Installation won't run? Or doesn't Quake run at the end of the 
installation?

First issue: If you run the installation in win95 compability mode it 
should run fine.
Second issue: It's not supposed to run. Thats what you use winquake or 
another port is for.
-- 
Regards, Ole C Brumm

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From: Havard C Skale <ocbrumm@spotmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2
Subject: Re: quake 1 on windows XP?
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:30:14 +0200
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