2007/02/14

This is my rudimentary attempt at compiling Quake2 for the n800.

***I warn you, this worked fine for me, but procede at your own risk.

copy the included ./usr directory to /

/usr/local/bin/           <-- included quetoo program goes here
/usr/local/lib/quetoo/    <-- included required quetoo files go here
/usr/local/share/quake2/  <-- quake2 gamefiles go here

Inspired by a video recently posted to youtube showing the n800 
supposedly playing a modified version of quake2 called quetoo.
I couldnt find any information about how this was done so I am stabbing in the dark at this.

Quetoo's website:  http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/Quetoo
youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPh2Os0D8pY&eurl=

I downloaded the source for the latest version of quetoo (currently 
0.6.1) but this version requires opengl, so i found a previous version 
which did not.
quetoo-0.5.0 seemed better.
This is essentially a straight compile of the quetoo source via the scratchbox.
I modified 1 file in the quetoo source:
  ./src/vid_ref.c 
and on line 270 changed:
	vid_ref = Cvar_Get("vid_ref", "glx", CVAR_ARCHIVE);
to:
	vid_ref = Cvar_Get("vid_ref", "softsdl", CVAR_ARCHIVE);

After compiling and installing, quetoo by default needs the quake 2 game files in 
/usr/local/share/quake2.   Place /baseq2/pak0.pak and /baseq2/players/ from your quake2 cd (or the 
shareware data files may work as well) into this directory.  

Following this you can run:
 /usr/local/bin/quetoo +vid_width 800 +vid_height 480 +map base1  

The game runs a bit slow.  In fact after a few seconds the game kicks you out because it thinks you 
are lagging too much. 
There is really no way of controlling things with the standard configuration. A bluetooth 
keyboard and mouse would surely improve things.  Holding the home button down will get you back 
to xterm so you can ctrl-c to kill quetoo.
If you have x11vnc installed on your n800 you can remotely access quetoo and use a keyboard to 
better interact with the game.
Perhaps there are Quetoo options that can be enabled/disabled to speed up the game or disable the 
stuttering.  I'm not sure if something can be done to the source or if quetoo has options builtin 
to help with this.  

-ColonelMustard
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