Help! GLPRO 3.50 excutable in Linux using Wine!

[Canadian*Sniper]

oh, I thought the whole point was to get you to play on cheatfree servers.

[foq]

*sigh* there's always wqpro..

[Canadian*Sniper]

linux budday, linux.

[foq]

I would only use linux if I couldant get a copy of windows XP or windows 2000

[Canadian*Sniper]

you really are clueless. I'm surprised Bank hasn't slapped you a 3041231943rd time yet

[foq]

define "slap"

[spooker]

phenom if you got quake to work at all under wine then i am impressed and you are a better man than me

[Phenom]

Ya I got it working... Hey Spooker You & Canadian>>>LOOK THERES A STAR HERE!!!*<<<Sniper wanna play a team game of WC3 sometime?

[golden_boy]

as a rule of thumb, you should never run something under wine when you can have a native Linux version.

Wine is a fuckin' emulator (for all practical purposes) and no one in their right mind would play a windows game in an emulator under linux when the same thing exists as a native linux binary. It's just weird.

The same program will almost always run slower in wine than in linux, and crazy errors may occur when it's a more complex program (*games*). I'm surprised that Quake even runs with wine.

Before anyone says "linux sucks" ask yourself if there is a linux emulator for windows, and if there was, how well it would play Linux quake...

;-)

Most quake engines run natively under Linux. No need to use wine.

[Phenom]

uh, ok.

Running Quake in it naitive form wasn't an option for me

Besides, as a new Linux user I like to mess with the OS and see what is possible and what has to be manipulated to make possible

[Canadian*Sniper]

tru dat homie. I've come up with some intense bashscripts

[golden_boy]

tru dat homie. I've come up with some intense bashscripts

You know what a great bash script trick is?

If you have several mod folders, you can have ONE SCRIPT TO RULE THEM ALL!

#!/bin/bash
~/joequake.x11 -game $1 (add other options)

script is called jquake.

The $1 means "take a command line parameter."

so you just start ./jquake ctf or ./jquake frikbot, no need to have different start scripts for every mod!

Similarly you can use $2, $3 etc. if you want it to take more parameters:

#!/bin/bash
~/joequake.x11 -game $1 -width $2 -height $3

and start that with

./jquake frikbot 640 480

Cool heh? :-)

I love Linux!

edit: for linux newbies, your scripts are pure text files that start with a line

#!/bin/bash

and contain chains of commands and options.

The ~ means "this user's home directory." A dot . means "this directory." ./jquake means "the script called jquake in this here directory."

Your scripts must be made executable with

chmod +x scriptname

(if you aren't Canadian Sniper, you probably do not know that.)

[Canadian*Sniper]

I knew about adding options but that's a cool idea you have there I'm lazy so I just make an alias called "quake" which plays quake from where ever I am in the directory

if you're skeptical about how to make permissions, you can never go wrong with sudo chmon 777