🚀 go-pugleaf

wine will run quake2 fine with most mods, except it dosnt fool anticheat,
 you still get kicked for not using windows ;)

On 2008-03-26, QwazyWabbit <qwazy@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:45:40 -0700, Todd <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>>After a very brief attempt at Windows Vista, I decided it's time to
>>move to Linux.  During my research, I've run across some references to
>>Quake 2 and games based on the engine.
>>
>>So what exactly do I need to do to run Q2?  I'm guessing Windows based
>>mods don't work in Linux?
>>
>
> The Q2 engine worked "OK" under Linux as a client. Today, OpenGL is
> probably your best bet for graphics mode. The last version of Q2,
> v3.21 was available in source form. Virtually all the source code is
> available now, including the single player DLL. The skins, maps and
> content are copyright idSoftware but if you have your Quake2 CD the
> content can be loaded into Linux.
>
> Server mode doesn't depend on graphics content or display capability.
> Most multiplayer mods are compiled and run on Linux with R1q2 server
> or modified Q2 code.