So, what's the latest hotness on playing quake on linux? I've been using wine + fitzhack for ages, but sound has stopped working and surely there's something better by now. Ubuntu Maverick + shitty intel graphics, if that matters.

(The next fun would be trying to get it to run on my ARM developer board I guess :-) 

http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/

it's basically a fitzquake sdl with various bugfixes and a few handy extra features. most sold engine around atm 

'sol[i]i[/i]d' 

 

sounds still a bit screwy, but I've got somewhere to start from... 

How so? 

Maybe because the name suggests freezes, stutters, jerky movement, sudden performance drops, just to name a few things... 

Choppy and stuttering. Probably pulse's fault. 

Quakespasm is choppy on your system? What's pulse? 

pulseaudio. another layer of user-friendly and well-working audio stuff on top of alsa. or maybe not.

I am so glad i am using ossv4! 

Destroys pretty much any chance for linux to have decent sound. Just use alsa or ossv4 if your card is supported. Supposedly it's better than alsa. 

Actually what it sounds like is the first 0.2 s of the sound is played over and over again for as long as the sound should last.

Only SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa works at all for me, the others result in "Couldn't open SDL audio: No available audio device", even pulse, which is a bit surprising. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/11/17/incredible-bioware-reveal-man-with-gun/

rock, paper, shotgun really is the best gaming site 

i'd rather see something like jade empire. :S 

AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

http://carolmulder.web-log.nl/.a/6a013483be4b17970c0133f5bc7f3b970b-pi 

Is it a bad thing to disable the sliding on exploboxes and monsters?

Specific cases where this is BAD? 

Although... are tarbabies sticky or slippery? 

 

if you're going to fix it, consider making players slide off of monsters' heads. like, actively being pushed off like in D3. it just doesn't make sense-- especially flying monsters. 

I did this in fitzquake long ago and reverted it, realizing it was too much of a gameplay/physics change to go in an engine (unless it was cvar controlled, which is DP's approach.)

Fixing it in a mod is completely reasonable though. 

you guys are such a noobs :(

caroline made a awesome christmas shamby and nobody coment :|

you fags :( 

you should have had a better tagline, AAAWEESOME on the internetz is not so intriguing.
that is kind of awesome... one question though, why a penguin? 

no idear tronyn ask caroline :) 

it's so full of stereotypes that science is your salvation love is intense o.O Oh brother o.0 aw... bacon double-cheeseburger with extra pickle balance on that humongous couch.