issues with installion from CD

[Merlin_the]

i bought the CD but cant install it on my windows 7 machine help please

[Hello]

You'll have to use DosBox to run the setup. Though I think on some CDs the files are included uncompressed in which case you can just copy them over manually and drop some source port into the directory.

[bat meat]

Do you have the WinQuake CD or the DOS CD?

[bat meat]

If it's DOS you'll have to play it through dosbox and mount the CD to play it. If it's Quake Windows 95 CD I don't know if it would work.

[JLaw]

negke mentioned getting the files from the CD; here's a little bit more about that, because that's what I had to do when I first tried to make a Quake install after leaving Windows XP behind.

The files you need are "pak1.pak" and "pak0.pak". Any modern Quake engine can play the entire game as long as you have those files, placed in a subfolder named "id1".

If you can find those files on your CD, great! Copy them out and go to work.

However my CD doesn't have those files immediately available; instead it has a big file named "RESOURCE.1".

"RESOURCE.1" is an archive in the "lha" format, and it contains the pak files that you need (and lots of other stuff). So to open it up, you need a program that can extract things from an lha archive.

I got a Windows installer for an lha command-line tool from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/lha.htm

... but I'm sure there are also other options.

For some reason, you have to rename the archive file to "RESOURCE.x", or else the lha tool will complain about a checksum error.

After renaming the file I was able to get all the stuff out of it like this, using the lha tool from above:

'C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\lha.exe' e .\RESOURCE.x

That will extract a bunch of files, so you probably want to do this in a temporary folder to contain the file-spew. Once it's done you can move the "id1" subfolder it created -- which contains "pak0.pak" and "pak1.pak" -- to the real location where you're going to put your Quake program.

Then you can delete all the other extracted stuff that you don't need. Unless you feel like reading the Quake background story in the manual again, or digging up the phone number for the "Game Hints Line". :-)

[rm -rf / --no--preserve--root]

Forgive me for necroing this thread, but with regards to this:

JLaw původně napsal:

The files you need are "pak1.pak" and "pak0.pak". Any modern Quake engine can play the entire game as long as you have those files, placed in a subfolder named "id1".

If you can find those files on your CD, great! Copy them out and go to work.

However my CD doesn't have those files immediately available; instead it has a big file named "RESOURCE.1".

"RESOURCE.1" is an archive in the "lha" format, and it contains the pak files that you need (and lots of other stuff). So to open it up, you need a program that can extract things from an lha archive.

I got a Windows installer for an lha command-line tool from here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/lha.htm

... but I'm sure there are also other options.

All you need is 7-Zip; it can open the RESOURCE.1 file from my disc and extract its contents straight away without renaming.

[nuclearballs1]

OK, I was forced to pull out my original 96 Quake install disc, and check this out. Yes, the .pak files are embedded in another file or format, and the idea is that you use an installer program on the disc. I tried booting to safe mode, and see if it would install on Win 7 that way. It refused, and I got the error that it was designed for 32bit, not 64bit which is what I have. Although it won't install, Quake works fine on this machine if you just copy the files into the appropriate folders. It would be interesting to see what would happen on a Win 7 32bit setup, if you tried to install original Quake 1 in safe mode.