Cacko + Quake – (1996 game) >

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Getting quake to launch in landscape mode ∞

• Regular new install of Cacko 1.23
• using the package manager, install the three quake files from a local feed.
• launch the “quake” icon (not quake-demo)
• the system slowed down, and eventually I could hear quake sounds.
• fn-home would let me switch to a black screen, but my input was ignored.
• some further fiddling and I was given the “Please wait... starting Linux and Qtopia" screen! But Quake was still heard in the background, playing itself.
• Reset.
• try “quake-demo” from the icon. It gave a black screen immediately and then returned me to the desktop. I waited.
• ps alx|grep quake did not reveal quake.
• run quake from a console.
• quake launched, but small and sideways.

• run quake-demo from a console, and received

The Quake engine was not found at: /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/quakeqt.bin

• went to “/home/Qtpalmtop/share/quake/” and ran “./quake”, and quake launched in a window for a moment and gave “Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)”

• ran “quake” and confirmed that it ran as before (small and sideways).

su
ln -s /home/Qtpalmtop/share/quake/quake /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/quakeqt.bin
exit
quake-demo

• “quake-demo” works, and quake runs small and sideways.

• Open a quake console, and type menu_video .. quake segfaults.
• I notice that there is a quake icon in my taskbar. I click it, and quake starts in landscape mode!
• Exit quake via its menu. My machine begins to act weird. The screen has not been restored.
• shift-home returns me to a console, but something is being processed. I am given the “Please wait… starting Linux and Qtopia”. Then I am given “Set System Time”.
• use the “quake” icon, and quake starts full-screen landscape!
• Exit quake via its menu, the system does weird things as above. shift-Home restarts as above.
• use the “quake” icon. The system cannot run quake properly.. I never see a display. My screen is in portrait mode again. I can shift-Home back to my regular UI experience, but I can’t get back to quake.
• I get back to my regular UI experience, but I cannot use the keyboard to killall quake. =/

• Remove the battery and boot back up.

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• Upon rebooting, and launching “quake” with its icon, the display is made portrait and is mostly black, but then I am returned to my desktop.
• I try again, and the same thing happens, except I am hung in this strange black portrait mode.
• Because I can see parts of the taskbar, I use the pen to choose shutdown. The yes/no prompt is shown, and it returns me to my proper landscape mode.
• run the “quake-demo” icon. The screen immediately goes black, then a delay, then portrait mode, then I am returned to my desktop as usual.
• run a console, and type “quake“. Quake launches in its smaller portrait mode.
• exit quake using its menu

• I see the small quake icon in my taskbar, and I click it. My screen goes black. It shifts into portrait mode and quake starts in landscape mode.

Correcting quake’s keys ∞

/home/QtPalmtop/share/quake/id1/config.cfg

bind "UPARROW" "+forward"
bind "DOWNARROW" "+back"
bind "RIGHTARROW" "+left"
bind "LEFTARROW" "+right"

Remaining issues:

• For a while, Fn-r acted like escape. I went into the menu and manually adjusted the size, and it is correct. Now Fn-r works as expected! Odd.

• alt does not work to strafe. I believe it is set correctly in the conf. Perhaps another key should be used?

Other notes ∞

TODO – libsdl has environment values which can influence its behaviour. Play with them to improve quake.

You can export values to influence libsdl’s behavior. Just google for something as EXPORT SDL_VIDEO and 640. You should find a list of possible sdl variables.

Then simply set the needed sdl variables before you start Quake.

Quake itself accepts several parameters:

quake -fullscreen -width 640 -height 480

Hungarian text ∞

http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18664

Cacko 1.22 lite – display iso-8859-2 (Hungarian)

• if I set $HOME/Settings/locale.conf to hu, the qtopia GUI menu is displayed correctly, but not a text in qkosole.
• if I switch to eg. Czech keyboard layout, I am able to input those chars, eg.ó (oacute), which are displayed correcty. But a few rows above a text with Hungarian chars is a garbage, at a same time.

• once (yes, it is not a very professional thing) I managed to display an iso-8859-2 text via qkonsole correctly, but only once, and after all I couldn’t find out which setting lead to it.

Solution:

1. Open the console.

2. Type ‘reset’

And voila, everything is right after then. (As you have the proper charset installed.)

Further readings are the sources of ‘reset’ and ‘qconsole’.