Quake 3+Classic and OS X

[placebo]

OK here's the deal.. I have Quake 3, but it only installs on OS 9. I know about the OS X patch.. but even then I still have to install it on Classic to get to that point.

Here's my question, is there anyway I can make the installer file itself run under max os x and not immediately go look for the Classic startup disk.. which BTW I don't have. ??

[RacerX]

The thing is, it is a one time install.

What I mean by this is that you install it in Mac OS 9... which basically unpacks everything, you burn that folder to a CD and you never need to worry about this again.

I've been playing Quake III in Mac OS X since the Public Beta... I haven't played in Mac OS 9 since the end of 2001. More importantly, I haven't had to install Quake III again since that first install either because I backed it up onto a CD.

Find someone you know who has Classic, a CD burner and doesn't mind you using their system for about an hour.

Then you can do what I do... I keep that CD in the same case as my Quake III CD (the Arena case, not the "team arena" one).

[Demon Hunter]

Q3X was always too buggy to play for me. :( They never fixed the plasma/projectile crash.

[RacerX]

Q3X was always too buggy to play for me. :( They never fixed the plasma/projectile crash. :confused: What crashed Quake III for you?

I actively play this game a lot (I go back and forth between Quake II, Unreal Tournament, Ghost Recon and Quake III on my systems).

The last time I had Quake III crash on me was... 2003-05-31 18:34:31 -0500and I just installed it on a new system a few weeks ago and went through all the levels without any problems.

What exactly was it that you were doing to crash it?

[crazzyeddie]

You can install Quake3 without the installer very easily. Simply download the latest Quake3 OS X patch, and click install. It will make a folder called Quake3 with everything you need- except for one file. On your CD there is a file called pak0.pk3. Simply move that into the baseq3 folder inside the Quake3 folder on your hard drive and you're done. No OS 9 needed, no pains.

[quikssurfer]

:confused: What crashed Quake III for you?

I actively play this game a lot (I go back and forth between Quake II, Unreal Tournament, Ghost Recon and Quake III on my systems).

The last time I had Quake III crash on me was... 2003-05-31 18:34:31 -0500and I just installed it on a new system a few weeks ago and went through all the levels without any problems.

What exactly was it that you were doing to crash it?

i play quake arena A LOT.. usually on excessive servers. let's have a match

[dskl]

Q3 crashes when I get hit in the face with the plasma gun. I've had this problem ever since I went to OSX. Nothing seems to help. Even upgraded to tiger today just to see if it would help. Some players never see this problem, but many do.

I'm running a desktop G5 1.8 Ghz, 1 Gig of RAM with the radeon 9800 graphics card.

Wish someone would come up with a solution for this, it's a problem that's been around for a long time.


:confused: What crashed Quake III for you?

I actively play this game a lot (I go back and forth between Quake II, Unreal Tournament, Ghost Recon and Quake III on my systems).

The last time I had Quake III crash on me was... 2003-05-31 18:34:31 -0500and I just installed it on a new system a few weeks ago and went through all the levels without any problems.

What exactly was it that you were doing to crash it?

[Demon Hunter]

Q3 crashes when I get hit in the face with the plasma gun. I've had this problem ever since I went to OSX. Nothing seems to help. Even upgraded to tiger today just to see if it would help. Some players never see this problem, but many do.

I'm running a desktop G5 1.8 Ghz, 1 Gig of RAM with the radeon 9800 graphics card.

Wish someone would come up with a solution for this, it's a problem that's been around for a long time.

That's exactly it! It stops me from playing my old favorite game. :(

I'll be running around with a plasma gun, and all of a sudden the program will exit. Or worse, I'm being fired at and the last thing I see is a ball of turquoise. It must be something with the plasma projectiles. But it happens less with other object collisions as well.

I think Instagib was ok... but it's been a long time...