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XQF 0.9.6b beta
(December 20th 2000)
XQF 0.9.6e beta
(Januaray 21, 2001)
DESCRIPTION
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Please send bug reports or suggestions to roma@botik.ru
QUAKE 3 ARENA SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS (AKA HACK)
--------------------------------------------
In Q3A, clients and servers can only talk with each other
if they are using the same protocol. The protocol in Q3A
is defined by a number. So, for instance, Q3A 1.17 uses
protocol 45 wile 1.27 uses protocol 48. During the switch-
over time after ID releases a new point release, it can be
frustrating to not be able to connect to any server one wants.
However, if you have lots of disk space, it is possible to
get around this problem.
I (Bill 'EvilBill' Adams) will outline what I did to get it
so I can play both 1.17 and 1.27 Q3A games without much fuss.
For reference, my Q3A is installed under /usr/local/games/...
and I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin/quake3 to ../games/quake3/quake3.
(1) Rename /usr/local/games/quake3 (as I used to have it) to
/usr/local/games/quake3-1.17.
(2) mkdir /usr/local/games/quake3; cd /usr/local/games/quake3
(3) cp -Rav ../quake3-1.17 .
(4) Install the point release, copy all of the TA pk3 files into
baseq3. Remove any old mods from 1.17.
(5) cd..; mv quake3 quake3-1.27
(6) Edit both of the quake3 scripts so the directories all match, here is
the script I use for 1.17: (/usr/local/games/quake3-1.17/quake3)
==begin==
#!/bin/sh
# Needed to make symlinks/shortcuts work.
# Run Quake III with some default arguments
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/games/quake3-1.17"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
cd "/usr/local/games/quake3-1.17"
quake="./quake3.x86"
"$quake" +set in_dgamouse 1 $*
exit $? ==cut==
(7) [as root], cd into /usr/local/bin. Make symlinks for each of the
Q3A directories that correspond to the protocol each uses. So:
ln -s ../games/quake3-1.17 quake3proto45
ln -s ../games/quake3-1.27 quake3proto48
ln -s ../games/quake3-1.27 quake3
Note the last one is there as the default.
(8) Get a very (CVS) recent version of xqf. You will need >=0.9.6e-beta.
Set up the executable for quake3 such that it is the FULL path to
quake3, in my case I entered /usr/local/bin/quake3. This is VERY important
because of the hack I used where I put 'protoNN' on the end of whatever
you entered for the program and see if xqf can fopen it. Without the full
path, chances are that xqf will not find it.
If you have problems, run xqf with "-d 5" on the command line. This
will give you some hints as to that which it is looking.
AVAILABILITY
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