Quoting: The_Aquabataye, the 9200 a really nice card it's when AMD took over and it started having good open source drivers I think.

edit: It was a few years later, but when AMD took over it slowly began having decent open source support, and even before the unofficial open source community drivers were not bad at all.

Actually, The Weather Channel used Linux for some project and demanded FLOSS drivers. ATI payed Tungsten Graphics to develop them.

I don't think the specs was released at the time, only available under NDA for specific developers.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/06/09/0236221/weather-channel-sponsors-oss-ati-radeon-drivers

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Quoting: GuestI'm using darkplaces (darkplaces-rev20140513-1.301.x86_64). Will have a try with quakespasm...

Yes, indeed, with that one it works.

Glad you got it working!

Googling the error message from your original message leads to this post with the following suggestion:

"It is the demo1.dem in the pak2.pak that is causing problems in BengtQuake and DarkPlaces. For now, add +map start when running, or just extract everything except demo1.dem from the pak2, then get rid of the pak2.pak."

Might be worth a a try if you prefer darkplaces.

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Quoting: GuestHints anyone? Other mods (Quoth, Soul of Evil...) do run fine

Which engine? Works fine here with quakespasm 0.93.2.

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Cool project, certainly takes me back! I built my very first PC back in 1999, a slot A AMD Athlon K7 system.

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Going all the way to Mars is cool as heck, but there's actually quite a bit of history with Linux, specifically Debian and space:

It was used on the space shuttle to run a hydroponics experiment all the way back in 1997. (Debian was four years old at the time.)

Debian was used as the official OS for laptops on the ISS back in 2013.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleThis is a weird one. I might be talking out my ass here, but DMCA is for copyright, and as far as I know, reverse engineered efforts like this usually do not use any of the original code and you still need to buy the original game for the assets. So it does not violate any copyright.

As mentioned in the article, this did not seem to be a clean room reverse engineering effort. I think Rockstar might very well claim copyright.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully they fix the fullscreen issue on Linux by launch though.

Had the same problem but worked around it by toggling windowed fullscreen in the WM.

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"Inspired by LucasArts, Tim Burton, Terry Pratchett" - check, check and check. Backed!

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Quoting: BladeforceIm getting sick of nvidia, time to upgrade to a more open company

"Escalation of privileges, information disclosure" - seems wide open to me?

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Quoting: torbidoAMDVLK is now used by default? I do not like that at all.

Presumably only if you go out of your way to actually install AMDVLK.

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