doom, quake, hexen...

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Mon Aug 20 18:28:41 UTC 2012


Polytropon wrote:
> > > > > I could also play Quake, Quake 2 from ports,
> > > > > and Jedi Knight II via wine. 
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, is there really nothing native?
> > > 
> > > No, that game is far too old, but Quake and Quake 2 have ports
> > > (to native FreeBSD) which work very nicely with the original
> > > files from the DOS version. 
> > 
> > What are the ports' names? 
> 
> The port for Quake is games/quakeforce (the binary then is

You probably meant games/quakeforge. It does not compile. Perhaps I
should submit a PR.

> for Quake 2 it is games/quake2.

There is no such directory games/quake2. There is games/quake2lnx,
but it does not work as I wrote in the first mail:

games/quake2lnx even pretends to do something: it opens a tiny X11
window with some flickering rubbish and plays some farting sounds to
the audio system.


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