Cant play quake :(

[Ligisd]

Hi, This question has probably been answered before...But im too lazy to read throught all the threads.
Anyways...
I bought the original quake 1&2 game(Not on steam) But i cant run it on vista...So i wonder:Must i have one pc to play quake I AND II. And another one for Quake 3 And another one for quake 4?
Or is there another way?

[LambentHammerBurst]

Use one of the more modern engines. QRack and Darkplaces are both great options.
QRack supports the md3 content (custom models) - however if you want a more "faithful" look go with this. Darkplaces is a engine overhaul that adds many features like normal mapping, gloss textures, luma/glow textures and other effects but it is much more cpu and gpu intensive.
These are both for Q1

[R00k]

Start with Fitzquake or DirectQ...

[dfsp_spirit]

It's possible to run Quake 1-4 under both Windows XP and Linux (I'm doing that) so the answer to the question whether you need 2 PCs is clearly 'no'.

But I guess your question is rather 'How do I get Quake 1 and 2 to work under Windows Vista?'.

I don't have Vista and can't help with Q1 but for Q2, I read at Q2C that only the installer doesn't work under Vista. The solution is to install it manually. Using more modern engines may also be a good idea (try r1q2 for Quake2) but is not required for Quake 2 it seems.