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First post, by nali

Posted on 2015-12-02, 00:59

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Hello.
Been a while ....

Put this in the DOS section, since I didn t find a "other" section 😀
Won t mind if it's moved.

Is there anyone succesfull with a Debian Jessie and Voodoo 2 ?
Why ? Because you can 😜

I manage to have q3demo running with my Voodoo 2 Sli, even if I have libGL from a Nvidia 6800 proprietary driver.
Just running
# q3demo
Which is a short cut for ./q3demo +set r_gldriver libMesa-blabla

I think Quake3 is the most versatile game to play with on Linux/BSD, without old needs from the old libvga as glquake was.

So, as I wan't to run Unreal classic ( Unreal Gold in fact) on glide with my old Pentium 4 , GeForce 6800 + V2 Sli,

I know it can be done via wine, I already did it in 1998 on a RedHat 5.2 and Voodoo 1 on my Pentium 233 MMX 😀
It was more stable than the win98 machine, I always ended to be the server machine ..
(Yes, I'am quite an old guy )

All the tests in /usr/lib/glide2/bin run on Debian.
Well ... Most of them.
But even with the original Voodoo Graphics (Voodoo 1 ) some didn t work.
So this might not be an issue.

Now I wan t to run Unreal on Jessie.

Of course I could use WinXP or Win98, they both work perfectly with V2 Sli 😀
But this is out of topic.

Reply 1 of 4, by collector

Posted on 2015-12-02, 02:46

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Milliways is the general forum. Old hardware and its configuration should be in Marvin. This forum is just for DOS games.

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Reply 2 of 4, by dougdahl

Posted on 2015-12-02, 06:59

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Not sure about the debian version, or about using Voodoo, and most
definitely not about using glide, but back about the time of Unreal
Tournament, I was using the Linux port of it to run Unreal 1. A bit
of work and there were some problems. (Some of which I heard were
fixed. On the other hand that was a decade+ ago, so some things may
no longer work with newer libraries.)

There was a installer from icculus for Unreal Gold at
https://icculus.org/~ravage/unreal/unrealgold/
but you'll need a copy of Unreal Tournament and have it running on Linux.
If you don't have access to the Loki port, which I would suspect is more
than a little rare, you could try using the installer with the
more common Windows version of Unreal Tournament at
http://www.liflg.org/?catid=6&gameid=51
And some tips at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games/Nativ … nrealTournament
And not the slightest clue if the GOG version would work. (My personal
suspicion would be no.)
Otherwise I think you would be forced to use Wine as I remember Unreal
as being only a Windows game.

And I would suspect that you will run into problems, with no solutions being easily present.

Reply 3 of 4, by Dominus

Posted on 2015-12-02, 07:04

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Moved to Marvin. Maybe a better topic title is needed 😉

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Reply 4 of 4, by xjas

Posted on 2015-12-02, 09:12

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I have a native Linux executable of Unreal Gold on one of my Mint (Ubuntu) machines. I used the OldUnreal.com 227 patch/port. If you have a win* version already installed somewhere you can just copy it over & drop in the Linux executable instead of trying to run the installer under Wine.

I seem to remember having some problems getting the music to play with FMOD - it involved installing the 32-bit ALSA libs (my actual distro is x86_64) and fiddling with alsa.conf, but that shouldn't be a problem in your case. The sound config on that machine has always been messed up anyway so maybe you'd have a more painless process.

NO idea about getting it going with a Voodoo2. You'd have to use OGL from the looks of it.

I don't think I got UT going as Linux native but I had it set up with a WINE wrapper on the same machine that worked fine.

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