I got the deb package day-of and have it running on my system, but
haven't been able to do much as I wasn't chosen for the beta, and it
flags you as such, aborting the app. I can still get on their
messenger/im, but I don't know anyone on steam or cared much being a
windoze walled garden to now.
It did work pretty flawlessly I was surprised to see, at least until
getting to actually launch a game.
-mb
On 11/20/2012 07:15 PM, Stephen wrote:
> here is a question has anyone tried doing the Steam beta. or running the
> steam client yet?
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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:
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> Anyone playing Quake4 under Linux?
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