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Author: Lisa Kachold
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Subject: Re: Quake 4
Stephen,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Stephen <> wrote:

> here is a question has anyone tried doing the Steam beta. or running the
> steam client yet?



No, I do see steam is pretty powerful with something called Dwarves etc.

Are you playing Quake via this client? Is so what server?

Reference: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2867654


> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Lisa Kachold <>wrote:
>
>> Yes, I picked up the linux Quake 4 iso via torrent, whereupon I got a
>> License key (which we linux users usually have to get from an XP purchased
>> Instruction Book) [that didn't work] and all the pk4 files (which we linux
>> gamers usually have to copy from the windows XP CD/DVDs.
>>
>> I used the license key from a used game I purchased at a local Bookmans,
>> and the pk4 files (since my disks had corruption) and got it running
>> happily with my nVidia card.
>>
>> It's really nice, especially in server mode. The best parts of Quake are
>> the cheat codes that allow you to dink around without really getting killed
>> all the time.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:
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>>> I payed it all the way through a few years ago when it was new, but I
>>> don't think i even have it currently installed. I was thinking about it
>>> though since it really did enjoy that one and it's been long enough that it
>>> would be like player a whole new game.
>>>
>>> The most recent game that I purchased was Alice: Madness Returns, but
>>> it's a windows game. The only reason I got it was that people were
>>> claiming that it ran well under wine, but so far I've had no luck at all.
>>> So I won't be playing that one until wine does run it.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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>>> On 11/20/2012 04:49 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone playing Quake4 under Linux?
>>>>
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