Help with quake 1

Post by **DRuM** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:46 pm

I played the full game many moons ago ( SP only) , in fact, it was in 1975.

Anyway, I wanted to remind myself of how the game played and sounded, so I downloaded shareware demo quake_sw. It has various exe files and I installed it via a dos type install.bat. Can't get the game to work though. Any ideas?

The readme says this:

" Running Quake
-------------

DOS: To launch Quake from the DOS Prompt, go to the Quake directory and
simply type "QUAKE" <ENTER>. (no quotes)

Windows 95: To launch Quake in single player mode, double click on the file
QUAKE.EXE From Windows Explorer. "

Double clicking on anything in the folder doesn't start the game. I tried the windows XP command prompt and it came up with this:

C:\>cd quake_sw

C:\QUAKE_SW>quake.exe
Quake v1.06
Locked 1 Mb image
Locked 11 Mb data
malloc'd: 11833344
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
General Protection Fault at eip=000452cb
eax=fd33046c ebx=00120240 ecx=0000ffff edx=fd330000 esi=00000054 edi=000db354
ebp=0011b34c esp=0011b2a8 cs=01a7 ds=01af es=01af fs=01cf gs=01cf ss=01af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x000452cb

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:52 pm

Give winquake or - even better - darkplaces a try. The original quake1.exe is a DOS-only executable.

Post by **I cant spell u** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:46 pm

FuhQuake.

Post by **DRuM** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:02 pm

Thanks for the tips but is there no way I can run a demo of the original, unmodded quake?
I wanna stroll through an original map with nothing improved.

Post by **I cant spell u** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:20 pm

DRuM wrote:Thanks for the tips but is there no way I can run a demo of the original, unmodded quake?
I wanna stroll through an original map with nothing improved.

FuhQuake. WinQuake.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:22 pm

FuhQuake is a lamed up Quakeworld client.

Drum - you may want to look into FitzQuake or ProQuake, both engines have features aimed for original DOS quake functionality.

Post by **DRuM** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:35 pm

I just want to play a bit of the original, untouched quake, not even a hint of mod and not net play

Anyway, these mods seem to require the full game to be installed, or require another mod installed which asks for the full game to be installed.

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:11 am

Not sure about the demo, but with the full game you can install it using setup.exe I believe and then delete OpenGl32.dll and it works in XP.

Post by **Fjoggs** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:19 am

Fitzquake does jack squat to the game, only allowing you to up the resolution and adds some fixes/stuff you won't recognize in the game.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:03 am

scourge34 wrote:Not sure about the demo, but with the full game you can install it using setup.exe I believe and then delete OpenGl32.dll and it works in XP.

that's glquake and the installed opengl32.dll with it is a minigl wrapper for voodoo cards

Post by **Scourge** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:19 am

CheapAlert wrote:
scourge34 wrote:Not sure about the demo, but with the full game you can install it using setup.exe I believe and then delete OpenGl32.dll and it works in XP.
that's glquake and the installed opengl32.dll with it is a minigl wrapper for voodoo cards

Yeah I knew about the voodoo thing. Just been quite a while and couldn't remember if it would work for winquake.