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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:21:43 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: "Orlando A. Andico" <orly AT natalie DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Ian Miller <itmiller AT taz DOT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Quake
In-Reply-To: <4i7344$dah@trog.dra.hmg.gb>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960313211846.218A-100000@natalie.eee.upd.edu.ph>
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On 13 Mar 1996, Ian Miller wrote:

> 
> People who say
> 	"Get Quake, it's great!"
> (you know who you are :-). Do you mean:
> 
> 1 - *guess* that, say, 4Mbyte qtest1.zip contains the source code;
> 2 - ftp it to your Unix machine;
> 3 - split it up and spend an hour copying it on to floppies;
> 4 - load these files on to your PC;
> 5 - join them back together;
> 6 - unzip the result;
> 7 - if you were right, compile Quake under djgpp?
> 

Nothing so amazing. The qtest1.zip contains a few sample WAD's (except 
they're not called WAD's anymore), the executable, a copy of CWSDPMI, and 
loads of disclaimers. No source, etc. And I got it by using a DOS-based 
ftp (FTP Software) so no need to mangle floppies... it's not really great 
though. The sound didn't work (I didn't really try to get it running 
nice) and I kept getting crashes -- the by-now-familiar CWSDPMI register 
dump!  8(

Cheers,
                                             ------------------------
                                              Orlando A. Andico
                                              oandico AT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
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