Quake mission packs

[Radec]

///Thread Closed thanks to King Hazza and Spirit, I got both Mission Packs working\\\

I have left DOS and am now using WinQuake but Scourge of Armagon wont work on my PC. I know theres a thread about this but if someone could give me a simple guide to getting the mission pack to work, it'd be good.

Radec

[Hazza]

No problem so long as you click on the setup icon and get the message 'this machine cannot run this game- would you like to install anyway?'
Just say yes, ignore the warnings. Then create a shortcut for winquake/darkplaces/any custom engine with the extra parameter
-hipnotic +game hipnotic
For Armagon and
-rogue +game rogue
For Dissolusion of Eternity
As you would a mod conversion.

Hope this helps!

Otherwise, you may need to open a command prompt on the installation disk's setup file to get it to install that way.

It might be possible to manually copy the files- I found this doesn't quite run as well as a proper install- but it shouldn't be too bad on a modern machine.

[Radec]

ello again

so when i ignore the warnings and create a shortcut, the shortcut should say Shortcut to WinQuake+gamehipnotic.exe or somthing like that?

[Spirit]

Stop!

-hipnotic respectively -rogue are all you need. Use each one as commandline parameter as shown below. So you end up with one shortcut for hipnotic (path\to\quake\winquake.exe -hipnotic) and one for rogue (path\to\quake\winquake.exe -rogue).

[Hazza]

Better listen to Spirit than myself- but just remember, so long as you have the hipnotic and rogue folders installed, the worst part is over and you should be ok- just create a shortcut (using the engine you desire) with;

-hipnotic -game hipnotic

And you should be good to go!
(make sure you enter it in exactly as above- or copy and paste).

(if you're wondering why you have to say it twice- the '-game hipnotic' entry tells the shortcut to play the armagon game itself,
while the '-hipnotic' entry alone sets the shortcut to 'armagon-mode' - adding the armagon interface, menu options, hotkeys etc- if you left it out, you could still play, but you would have some slight trouble accessing some of the interface features and improvements (not much of a deal unless you want to play coop and see the normal Quake levels!)

Quoth also uses the Armagon interface (hence -hipnotic -game quoth)

Anyway-
Do the same thing for the rogue folder and you can play the second game too.

[gnounc]

yay winquake!!

noone should have to play quake on dosbox.

[Spirit]

King Hazza, no. -hipnotic is enough. Any non-broken engine will load the hipnotic game data with that.

This is from the winquake source code:

//
// start up with GAMENAME by default (id1)
//
	COM_AddGameDirectory (va("%s/"GAMENAME, basedir) );

	if (COM_CheckParm ("-rogue"))
		COM_AddGameDirectory (va("%s/rogue", basedir) );
	if (COM_CheckParm ("-hipnotic"))
		COM_AddGameDirectory (va("%s/hipnotic", basedir) );

When -rogue or -hipnotic are passed as commandline parameters, the engine will add the according gamedir (and do the game-specific engine things such as colouring the new weapons in the HUD).

[Hazza]

Interesting....

[Radec]

Thanks guys, i did the Hipnotic and Rogue lines into the shortcuts and both games work perfectly.