Classic, Quake3 and myPod
Well, I just spent a good hour or 2 workin on getting Classic workin on my iBook. Why? Well, I may be going to a Bronx Lan (hosted by Winnipeg Gamers) tomorrow (well, technically today), and they are hosting a Quake3Arena tournament, so I figured I would use my iBook and play some Quake3 with em. At first, when I tryied to install the game, the installer told me I needed Classic installed, so after attempting to install it off my OS9.1 install CD failed, I decided to ask Google, and Google answered. I had to use my 10.3 Additional Software CD to install Classic, then I was able to install Quake3.
Now, I had it running in Classic, but it was laggy. Luckily, went hunting for the latest patches, and installed it. It looked like the patch supported OSX, so I looked into installing the patch correctly. What I ended up doing was downloading the Altivec Test2 package into /Applications/Quake/, however Quake3 itself was installed in /Quake3/. So what I did was remove everything, reinstall quake3 to /Applications/Quake3/, and then installed the patch to the same directory. After that, the instructions on ID’s web site told me that I will have to take the PAK0.PK3 file from the /Quake3/BaseQ3/ directory on the CD and put it in the same directory on my HD. So I did that, launched the Quake3 G4 program file from /Applications/Quake3/, showed it where my original install directory is, and then proceeded to lose to the computer in a quick match round.
So, all that working on Classic only to find out that Quake3 has a patch that not only works with OSX, but is also optimized for Altivec processors (G4 and up). Well, atleast now I know how to install Classic.
Oh yeah, and uhh, you can get the patch from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/mac/
Last week, I bought a 1GB iPod shuffle. Little did I know not a week later I would be trading that sucker in for a 6GB iPod Mini. My friend’s roommate was looking to score some cash for rent I’m assuming, so I was able to buy his barely used mini off him for the same price that I bought my iPod shuffle for. While I already filled it with songs and podcasts, I love it!
Well, I’m out for the night. I started work on my new site again, did a major overhaul to the visual side. Now all I need to do is convert a few more pages over to XHTML, then I can go public with it. I may spend a bit longer and experiment with AJAX, but that has yet to be decided. Goodbye good sir!
!–jdyck–!