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FYI, I noticed it doesn't automatically create the hidden folder .q3a until after you run it at least once. I had to do that before I could paste files into the hidden path.

Thanks. Ill update my quick guide.

Indeed it does. And you dont need to do all that stuff to get it working either. You just reinstall ioquake3 and your good to go!

Precisely, the paks you gathered from the legal source disk have no bearing in the maemo architecture. IOQuake is the interrupter of these programs and is the only thing that has dependencies within the Maemo OS.

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i was playing with quake 3 before the pr 1.1 update, and there was something really annoying, the game couldn't keep in memory the cd key... is there a way to store it in the game ?? thx

I can't find a reference here to the fact that you can use the demo download from idsoftware.com and just use the single pak0.pk3 in baseq3 directory.

I noticed the baseq3 directory was root owned, I chowned to user, and I have a link to MyDocs/ for the actual .pk3 for space reasons, although the demo pak is only 47meg.

It's almost installable entirely without cmdline or root as long as it's willing to look in MyDocs by default and all that's needed is repository adding (until it is made live).

You could consider asking ID if they mind packaging the demo pak file. Then this would work out of the box.



Note: for anyone on a recent dist with a changed GNU tail and maybe different "print" binary, you'll need to fudge stuff to extract the pak. The file linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh from http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quak...e_section=demo is a self installing .sh but it's many years old.

Make a tail and print script and put it in the 1st part of your PATH:

#!/bin/sh
exec /bin/tail -n $@

#!/bin/sh
echo -- $@

PATH=/location/of/printandtail:$PATH sh -x linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh -target newdirectoryname

cd newdirectoryname
find . |grep pak

You can work the rest out.

I wonder if trying to loopback mount the .dmg with HFS+ filesystem support was an option on the mac download, or maybe the .exe was unzippable ?

I find the aiming with touch controls in this game horrible. Any way to make it more like duke nukem 3d?

Does anyone here use OpenArena?

If so it would be awesome if someone could set up a Maemo/N900 server at home so we can all kill each other from our phones. It's really hard to play PC users :-(

I am having a hard time with this openarena game... it auto-runs backward even if ive set the auto run to off... or sometimes it just turns left by itself... any advice?

Yeah I would like to be able to turn off the accelerometer controls for the game, it's way to hard to play like that.

Plus I just got the wiiController working with it which I find makes the game much more playable :-) I configure jump and shoot on the wii and then use the arrow keys , was playing online and actually got a few kills :-)