Quake 3 Arena on Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X Panther

On 2005-04-17 16:13:34 +0300, "Jim B" said:

 > I have the Windoze retail CD of Quake 3 Arena.
 > Want to run it on a Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X Panther.
 >
 > Downloaded Quake3-132-AltivecTest2.pkg.sit.
 > The Mac executable asks where the retail version is
 > (I copied the whole CD to hard disk), and the screen turns white,
 > then Quake 3 hangs. Running the Quake console, it complains
 > about "unexpected GUI 3" whatever.

Well I have more freaky setup and it works. Are you sure you copied
that 450mb+ data file from baseq3 to the mac baseq3 folder?

I was a pure newbie on OS X, in fact I installed the point release and
the data file from the linux quake3 cd.

And you are sure you aren't overwriting anything yes?

Ilgaz
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:56:45 +0300, Ilgaz wrote:


 >
  >> I have the Windoze retail CD of Quake 3 Arena.
  >> Want to run it on a Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X Panther.
  >>
  >> Downloaded Quake3-132-AltivecTest2.pkg.sit.
  >> The Mac executable asks where the retail version is
  >> (I copied the whole CD to hard disk), and the screen turns white,
  >> then Quake 3 hangs. Running the Quake console, it complains
  >> about "unexpected GUI 3" whatever.
 >
 > Well I have more freaky setup and it works. Are you sure you copied
 > that 450mb+ data file from baseq3 to the mac baseq3 folder?
 >
 > I was a pure newbie on OS X, in fact I installed the point release and
 > the data file from the linux quake3 cd.
 >
 > And you are sure you aren't overwriting anything yes?
 >
 > Ilgaz


Thank you!

I copied pak0.pk3 to /Applications/Quake3/baseq3/,
then told it the Retail Version was at /Applications/Quake3,
and then it ran successfully.

Apparently copying the CD to a separate directory
and telling that was the Retail Version was wrong.
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Jim B wrote:
> I have the Windoze retail CD of Quake 3 Arena.
> Want to run it on a Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X Panther.
>
> Downloaded Quake3-132-AltivecTest2.pkg.sit.
> The Mac executable asks where the retail version is
> (I copied the whole CD to hard disk), and the screen turns white,
> then Quake 3 hangs. Running the Quake console, it complains
> about "unexpected GUI 3" whatever.
>

Delete it all and start over.

Install the Quake 3 Altivec Update first.

Then drag the pak1.pak file from the baseq3 folder on the CD to the
baseq3 folder created by the Quake3 patch install.

Done.
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