Re: glquake on Alpha - limited success

[Phillip Ezolt <ezolt perf zko dec com>]

Eric,
	Regular quake fails when you try to start a game,too.  I've tried to
get to work (for about 1/2 hour), but with no success. 

I'll put up your status on the Games page. 

--Phil

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, M. Eric Christy wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> 
> I have found limited success in my all-important quest to 
> play glquake on my Alpha and I am looking for any feedback 
> from interested parties.  Here is the current status.
> 
> My machine:  164LX/533MHz, Matrox Millenium, running RH6.1. 
> Mesa3.0 installed.
> 
> I downloaded the recent quakeforge souces and compiled all 
> targets.  Compilation went smooth.  Fired up glquake and was
> surprised to see a very pretty menu screen thanks to Mesa.  
> Unfortunately sound was extremely choppy so I turned that off.  
> I then ran a couple of the demos - damn was it slow, but what 
> do you expect without hardware acceleration.  I then tried to 
> fire up a single player game and got a core dump (not sure 
> what the problem is here).  
> 
> Conclusions/questions:  Glquake looks to be a reality soon on 
> Alpha.  There are possibly some issues but I'm not going to 
> look into them further until I have some sort of hardware 
> acceleration.  So my biggest question is whether anyone is 
> currently using hardware accelerated Mesa on Alpha and what 
> cards are you using.  
> 
> I hope to get in touch with whomever is updating the games 
> section of Alphalinux.org soon, if there is adequate interest, 
> so people can keep track of the current status of glquake on 
> Alpha.  The biggest piece of the the puzzle which is currently 
> missing is the question of 3d hardware on Alpha so I would 
> really appreciate anyone with experience here to email me.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -Eric Christy
> 
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