quake/articles/1996/art-162

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From: Thomas Winzig

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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Quake Utilities for SGI IRIX

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Date: 28 Jun 1996 10:46:18 +0100

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Greetings Quake/SGI fans,

I have started the Quake Utilities for SGI IRIX web site.

It is my attempt to centralize Quake utilities that are (or will be)

available for SGI IRIX machines. I offer up the space on this server to

any useful IRIX programs/ports for Quake. If you have information on

IRIX utils, ports, etc. I would love to hear it. There is only one thing

I ask for your help in: compilation of these utilities. I do not have

the SGI IDO, so my compilation abilities are weakened quite a bit! :o)

Is anyone is considering a port of Quake's executable to SGI yet? If so,

drop me a line, and we may be able to coordinate something through this

site. I cannot offer porting expertise, but I can offer a means of open

communication -- the web forum software I created -- as well as network

resources and space.

The web site is located at:

http://www.webcom.com/phantasm/QUSI/

Since Quake is new, the utils for it are newer still; that should pick

up soon, though. QUSI currently offers the SGI compiled binaries for

qbsp/light (still working on getting a copy of vis compiled). If you

think you have something useful related to SGI and Quake, please stop

by.

Since I am posting this to the SGI newsgroups as well, I will include a

brief Quake description:

Quake is a fully 3 dimensional action game created by id Software

(creators of Doom). The true 3D nature of Quake and its levels lends

itself well, I feel, to SGI's hardware and resources, so I believe SGI

utilities will be forthcoming, including: level editors, modelling

software, conversion utilities, and even a port of the main Quake

executable from DOS to SGI (though this might have to be done by id

Software, if at all, much like the Doom SGI version).

Quake will allow things to be done in "worlds" that have never been done

before. If your interests extend into 3D, VRML, perspectives, physics,

etc., then you will probably at least want to try Quake (currently runs

optimally on a DOS Pentium machine).

Please see the following URL for Quake download information:

http://www.idsoftware.com/dlquake.html

Thanks for your time.

P.S. I want to thank James Black who was kind enough to compile

qbsp/light for me, to allow me to truly get started with this project.

--

Thomas Winzig thomas.winzig@webcom.com

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