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From: "Stephen D. Spencer" <gladiatr@sunflower.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running Quake on FreeBSD, HELP!
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:44:32 -0500
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On 10 Jun 1997 risner@stdio.com wrote:

> Benjamin Lim <fade@earthling.net> wrote:
> > freeBSD would be fantastic. It wouldn't be just a workstation or server,
> > huh? I mean come on! Even neXtstep has quake and it has less users then
> > freebsd...
> 
> NeXTStep has quake for a reason.
> Doom was originally written under NeXTStep and ported to everything else.
> I imagine they may still have development tools written for NeXTStep and
> the quake just may have been native to NeXTStep.
> 

Hmm... well, the Linux/ELF version of xquake runs under FreeBSD.
Unfortunately, due to an idiosyncracy in the way the BSD OSS driver sets
up /dev/sndstat it won't give sound.  :(

- -Stephen

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