Puppy Multiplayer LAN

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Puppy Multiplayer LAN

#1 Post by Sgt Andrew »

I had an idea to have a lan party with people bring in old crappy windows 95 computer and i will install puppy and a Doom type game on it. The only probley is that i can't find a game that is multiplay and will run well on old computers with puppy. If anybody can find or make a FPS like DOOM or quake that runs on Puppy Please tell me.

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#2 Post by sunburnt »

I talked about Quake 3 for Linux running on Puppy, others thought it was a good idea.
The problem is, the only distributable parts are the Linux executable & the quake3.cfg file, the pak.0 file with the graphics is NOT freeware & can't be given away, Quake 1 & 2 is the same I beleave (I'll check).
The original Doom is shareware I think, but I don't know if it does LAN head to head.
I'm also not sure if Doom was ported to Linux, I'll check on these items & report back.
If you; Sgt. Andrew know any of this stuff, post back here what you know & we'll compare.

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#3 Post by MU »

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... light=doom

This uses Freedoom, which is a replacement of the mpaps and levels of doom2.
Some monsters and maps are not finished yet, but you can play it.
It also is possible to replace the freedoom-pwad with the one from the original game.
There also is a OpenGL-version of Doom (jdoom - google for that), that looks veeeery cool - glowing firebals, antialiased textures and so on. I had it running at puppy already, but at that time my computer overheated.
Might try to get it running again later.

Quake (shareware):

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4659

Quake2:
http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html

I have all levels of Q2, but cannot offer them in a public place like the forum for copyright-reasons.

Mark

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#4 Post by sunburnt »

MU; just saw your post in pups n stuff & was about to post back here, darn your fast!
A few Qs...
Doom doesn't do LAN play does it?
Quake 1 & 2 sharewares weren't ported to Linux like Quake 3, were they?

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#5 Post by MU »

Quake1 -shareware, see link above.

To play Quake2 , install Java, then Jake2.
Jake2 needs the .pak from the shareware or full-version of Windows-Quake.
I think the Jake2-Website has a link to the Shareware-version.

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