X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,85f472542bf6205c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-07 04:46:38 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.infoave.net!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Faux_Pseudo@home.com (Faux_Pseudo) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ascii Quake References: <3a5791f7@news.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Lines: 46 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 12:44:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.177.56.10 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sdca.home.com 978871441 24.177.56.10 (Sun, 07 Jan 2001 04:44:01 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 04:44:01 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:3944 well i tried to install it on the mandrake box i got lots of sigfaults and played with some symbolic links to the librarys to see if the matching ones already on my system worked better. and after a while fixed that but now it's just like regular quake and on the slackware box quake yelled at me about not haveing libX11.so.6 which is understandable cus i dont have x but why was it looking there in the first place? so i installed the slack package for that and reset the lib path in ttyquake and now it tells me libX11.so.6 has a invalid elf header now its pissing me off. so time to uninstall that package and find another way. time to post in one of the quake groups and see what i can find. --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Harry J Mason said it like only they can.)-- >> has anyone here installed the console ascii version of quake? >> any problems any coments? > >Yeah. You need a /really/ big tty for it to be remotely playable, like >180x80 or higher. Try it in an X term in a really small font. > >I had a few problems with keyboard repeat making it impossible to turn >properly, but that might just be my setup. > >Hajoma > >-- >-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >Version: 3.12 >GCS d- s+:++(+)>+: a--- C++(+++) UL++>++++ P+++>++++ L++>++++ E--- W+(++) >N(+)>++ o? K++ w--@ O? M? V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP->++ t+ 5? X- R>+(++) !tv b+++ >DI>+ D+>++++$ G+++ e(*)>++ h-->++ !r y(!+*) >------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- --(UIN=66618055)-- --(tty1@faux.local_04:45_/home/faux)-- cat .sig GUI's are for slackers. ibpconf.sh 5 on freshmeat.net The easiest way to customize the command line. By Faux_Pseudo