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Re: * Help! Quake won't run.

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:00
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Rubbish
I run quake qw glquake q2 the lot with win98.
Nina Harrison heeft geschreven in bericht <366F327F.CC5C05A7@erols.com>...
>As I understand it, the original Quake does not run under Windows 98 unless
you
>boot from DOS. It is the prime reason I have not upgraded yet!
>
>Jon Yeager wrote:
>
>> I just bought a new computer and now I can't get Quake or GLQuake to run.
>> Both give me the following error : The first DOS window will load up a
>> second window (with the rocky background texture) but only for a split
>> second.  Almost immediately, that 2nd window disappears, leaving me with
the
>> first and nothing else (the one that calls qlaunch with the -mpath
>> extension).  Nothing is on my windows toolbar, and nothing is on my
>> desktop - except for this useless 1st window.
>>
>> (Typically, the first window would open up the 2nd, which would open up
the
>> 3rd in full screen size where the game is played.  That's when it
worked.)
>>
>> My configuration is :
>>
>> - BX motherboard
>> - Matrox Millennium G200 video card
>> - Diamond Monster II (12 megs)
>> - Soundblaster Live! sound card
>> - 256 megs of RAM
>> - P2/400mhz CPU
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why I can't run Quake with this setup?  I have the
latest
>> SBLive drivers (released 3 days ago) because someone told me he had
problems
>> with his using Quake 2.
>>
>> Note: I tried running it in DOS mode (without the Windows shortcut) and
it
>> does the same thing : hangs at the qlaunch/mpath command line).  And the
>> exact same files (copy/pasted) work fine at the office.
>>
>> If this is a common problem, could someone send me the fix or
instructions
>> on how to rectify it?
>>
>> Thanks a million,
>>
>> JY
>
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Subject: Re: * Help! Quake won't run.
Date: 1998/12/17
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