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After exhausting the bulk of id Software's output, I still hadВ a numberВ of games from aВ variety of developersВ to choose from. Having gone through all three of the Quake games which would be reasonable to to run on theВ hardware, the question became what I shouldВ choose to play next. From there I just had to override a few of the gameВ binaries with those provided in theВ В archive. This was aВ straightforward process using the linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run installer provided by Besset, which can also addВ support for the Team Arena expansion pack on Linux.

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Indeed, in order to keep the timedemo dataВ consistent across platforms, I found that I had to patch Quake III Arena on both Windows and Linux to the final 1.32c release.

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It was also the first and to date last retail Linux game that id Software would officially support themselves, with them taking over from Loki Software after the latter'sВ closure in 2002 by hiringВ TimothГ©e Besset to provide technical support he would go on to port Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars to Linux in an unofficial capacity similar to Quake and Quake II. This largely has to do with the adoption of the Simple DirectMedia Layer as opposed to using SVGALib or straight X11, alongside conveniences such as the inclusion of the Loki Setup installer on the CD-ROM. Unlike the original Linux ports of Quake and Quake IIВ with all their idiosyncrasies,В the retail Linux release of Quake III Arena really does hold up when compared to the Windows version, and even stands tall against a lot ofВ modern source ports.

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In general Windows performs better at 32 bit colour depth, while Linux takes the lead at 16 bit colours. On the Fastest setting Linux manages 41 FPS to 35 FPS, but Linux does fallВ behind WindowsВ when set to High Quality, with it gettingВ 18 FPS to 23 FPS. Linux actually outperforms Windows 98 when the timedemo is ran using Normal quality settings, scoring 36 FPS to 32 FPS on Windows 98. This held true for Dianoga as much as any other Linux system I have used. This hadВ as much to do with the game's technical achievements as my fondness for the gunplay.В Throughout all of the upheavals I went through in following the developing free graphics stack, Quake III Arena became just as important to me as glxgears in demonstrating that 3D acceleration was in fact working, with the gameВ engine'sВ OpenGL implementation still being one of the slickest and most performant ever produced. The bedrock of almost all the LAN parties played in my household, Quake III Arena also became a trusty reliable for when I felt the urgeВ for a casualВ bot match, with my favourite maps being Q3DM7, Q3DM9, Q3DM13, Q3DM14, andВ Q3DM17 in order of first appearance.В Whenever I felt the need for a fresh Linux installation, which was often before I settled on Arch Linux in 2013, Quake III ArenaВ always became the first game I would reinstall. Even with all of those other options it was the original game I always found myself coming back to, with my main listed frag count now exceeding 21,000 frags as of the time of this writing.

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It was not until later that I would discover the full effect Quake III ArenaВ had on the Linux ecosystem by downloading and playing the numerous derivative games created from the 2005 source code release available in almost all Linux software repositories. From that moment on, my Linux box becameВ a gaming machine.

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I remember being frustrated at not having it work on first launch, until I discovered I had to copy my system's libGL.so.1 file to the install directory, one last caveat brought on by the need to support both 3dfx as well asВ more generic OpenGL accelerator hardware. When I switched to using Linux full time in the spring of 2007 one of my first accomplishments was getting that same demo to install. This image became so emblematic of Linux as a gaming platform that it still gets widely circulated to this day. Printed in several of these was one of many advertisements by the Linux server company Penguin Computing, this one depicting Linux mascot Tux brandishing a rocket launcher in the iconic Q3DM7 map includedВ in the demo version of Quake III Arena. When I was growing up, one of my first exposures to Linux was my fatherвЂ™s stack of old Linux Journal magazines. Continued from Part 6: A Lone Marine Battled