Archive for September 7th, 2009

Some Old Pictures of me and some close friends

Monday, September 7th, 2009

I was digging to my old files and I digged up some old nice pictures taken with Niki (Shanar). Who has recently left us for heaven 🙂 Here are the pictures themselves . I also found on my FreeBSD 7 old system some pictures of me Toto, Nomen, Niki and some others who more or less relate to my past. Here are the rest of the pictures 100SSCAN .END—–

QuakeForge on Debian Unstable

Monday, September 7th, 2009

I wanted to have running Quake on my Debian GNU/Linux. Thus I looked as usual in google for the possible solutions.There were a couple of options I could approach. One of them was to use QuakeForge’s (QF)’s Quake engine. I tried to compileQuake Forge from it’s latest version 0.5.5, however that didn’t worked out. Therefore I needed another solution. I wantedto make installation of quakeforge as quick as possible. After some googling I found The Following Quake Debian Repository . Next I’ve downloaded all the necessery deb files on the Apache and installed them. File by file. I have to install the files with debian package manager file options –force-all because I’m running a Debian amd64 release. I did the deb binaries installation using the command:
. dpkg -i –force-all quakeforge*.deb. It might be a wise idea before executing the above binary to install either quakeforge-oss or quakeforge-alsa binary file otherwise while dpkg executes dpkg-reconfigure to quakeforge-common the package configuration will fail. There is one more thing to be done before you’re having a runnign version of Quake on your Linux. Be sure to download Quake’s original binary pak0.file and place it into the /usr/share/games/quake/id1 directory.Of course as you could expect in Linux things almost never work perfectly. I was unpleasently suprised when I started quakeforge and I realized I can not run the good old Quake with sound effects :(.END—–