quake/articles/1997/art-913

Path: mantis!not-for-mail

From: "NITROX"

Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.announce,rec.games.computer.quake.misc

Subject: NT AND QUAKE - FINAL WORD

Followup-To: rec.games.computer.quake.misc

Date: 6 Jan 1997 11:09:05 -0000

Organization: ChexSystems, Inc.

Lines: 25

Sender: tony@jobstream.co.uk

Approved: quake@mantis.co.uk

Message-ID: <01bbf817$a3eb6570$3fd20bce@prometheus>

[ Not really an announcement, but approved for informational content - mod ]

I'm sick and tired of all this "how do you run Quake under NT?" So here,

read and learn...

Okay, for the last fucking time, you cannot run the regular DOS version of

Quake under any version of Windows NT. The reason for this is that NT does

not allow programs to access hardware devices directly (such as a game

writing pixels to the screen). This is exactly what Quake does, causing it

to produce an access violation. However, any version of Quake that goes

through the operating system to run, such as Quake World (which uses

DirectX, a built-in OS library) or GLquake (which uses the OpenGL libraries

that are built-in to NT - should be out in a few days). I'm personally

very excited about GLquake because it uses 3D libraries that have been very

well developed (unlike DirectX) along with Windows NT. NT users should see

very good performance, especially with GL accelerator hardware, along with

a few cool little features such as shadows under objects and very good

looking mirrors (unlike Duke).

So there! Does everyone understand now? Good, because these posts are

getting old.

NITROX