Quake

[Gregory J.Neumann]

I'M ON IT!!  Sorry I was too wussy to look it up myself.  I have had much 
bigger fish in the pan this past week.  Maybe I'll have it setup for the 
meeting.  January 21st by my reckoning. :-)

Thanks a bunch!
-greg

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 1/5/02, 00:28:38, Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote regarding 
Re: Quake:


> > Yeah, but will it work on a 486?? ;-)

> Good question.  According to IDSoftware's web site:

> System requirements

> 1. Personal Computer with a Pentium Processor.
> 2. 8 megabytes of RAM to play in DOS, 16 megabytes to run in a Win95 DOS 
Box.
> 3. A Sound Blaster or 100% compatible sound card is highly recommended.
> 4. 40 megabytes available hard disk space.

> > What's minimum requirements for Quake?  I've got a Pentium Pro 200 and a
> > Matrox 2 Meg. PCI video.  But if it works, and it'll "cross dress" w/
> > Win98, I've got a 10 year old who would dearly love to smear the "old
> > man's" innards all over a level! ;-)  It >might< be enough to get him
> > away from Windoze! :-D

> Let's put it this way, I have a 166Mhz machine w/64 RAM and a 1 Meg 
Cirrus
> Logic video card.  I was able to run squake just fine (not sure about the
> resolution though).



> Dege

> Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
> they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.