Fancy a Quake III Deathmatch?

28th of April 2012 by liz

We have enormous luck with the people called Liam (three and counting now) who volunteer to do great stuff for Raspberry Pi. Liam McLoughlin (@hexxeh on Twitter) has so far got Chromium OS running on his Raspi, along with the very useful Despotify and a Raspberry Pi firmware updater. All the above are available at his website, and knowing Liam, I’m sure there’s more to come.

This game may well have been made me drop a class-mark in the second year of my degree. And I'm not altogether sure that rocket jumping is a useful life skill.

Liam put a call out last night for people who are lucky enough to have managed to get their hands on a Raspberry Pi, and who fancy a Quake III Deathmatch. He’s now made the Quake III binaries available (only tested so far on the most recent Debian release) at radium.hexxeh.net/quake3.zip. If you head over to #raspberrypi at Freenode IRC, you’ll find willing ~~victims~~ opponents in the channel.

The zip file compresses to 3.14MB, which we think is kind of serendipitous.

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66 comments

Jaseman on
April 28, 2012 at 3:30 pm said:

That’s it – I’m changing my name to Liam!

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texy on
April 28, 2012 at 3:30 pm said:

First.
For those of us still waiting for our pi is it possible to use the download on qemu or virtual box?
Texy

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- liz on
  April 28, 2012 at 3:34 pm said:
  
  I believe so, yes, but you might need to do some googling to work out how to do it. (Sorry; a bit out of my sphere of knowledge on this one, but I’m sure someone else can be of more help!)
  
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  - Liam McLoughlin on
    April 28, 2012 at 3:43 pm said:
    
    For code that doesn’t use the VideoCore present in the RPi, you can use QEMU, but Quake 3 definitely needs to use that core and so you won’t be able to play it under QEMU.
    
    ioQuake3, on which this port is based, works nicely under x86 though, so there’s nothing to stop you just building native binaries and joining in from your regular PC.
    
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Ben on
April 28, 2012 at 3:46 pm said:

Chalenge accepted

In all seriousness, I’m thinking of starting up a low level gaming tournament: the only rule: everyone MUST use a raspberry pi

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Urban Svensson on
April 28, 2012 at 3:54 pm said:

Still no Pi but another new word richer which isn’t bad at all Serendipitous reading here indeed.

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tzj on
April 28, 2012 at 4:18 pm said:

what amazes me is the lighting in the pic, that back wall looks fantastic from a distance!

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- Andrew Scheller on
  April 30, 2012 at 2:11 am said:
  
  It looks pretty, but like all computer games it’s actually a cheat
  The lighting isn’t dynamic, but precomputed and “baked” into the geometry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightmap
  
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Jeremy Freudberg on
April 28, 2012 at 4:27 pm said:

Why is everyone named Liam? I’m really jealous of all these smart people with the same name.

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Colin on
April 28, 2012 at 5:13 pm said:

Polite correction Liz – he got Chromium OS running on a Macbook Air, NOT a pi.

Colin

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- liz on
  April 28, 2012 at 5:15 pm said:
  
  I should clarify – he has got it running on a Pi (there has been much tweeting about it, along with some very exciting pictures), but there aren’t instructions on his site yet.
  
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  - Liam McLoughlin on
    April 28, 2012 at 5:44 pm said:
    
    Yeah, it does work on a Pi technically speaking, but I’m refraining from posting an image until it’s actually usable. It’s a nice technical feat at the moment, but until there good Xorg driver available, it’s not a whole lot of use.
    
    There’s some interesting stuff going on regarding running Chrome without X underneath it at all, which I’m pursuing as a possible option to get things running faster on the Pi, but it’s all very much experimental at the moment.
    
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    - Ben on
      April 28, 2012 at 9:45 pm said:
      
      This is exciting! Do you think chrome on pi will be any good (does it look like it has the potential to be reasonably fast – dispite the pi’s limited resources?)
      
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    - Lars T. Hansen on
      April 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm said:
      
      Wayland could be very interesting to see on the Pi – it replaces X:
      More about Wayland here:
      http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-1432046.html
      http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
      
      /wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
      
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      - Lars T. Hansen on
        April 29, 2012 at 2:35 pm said:
        
        On http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-1432046.html?page=2
        i found this rather funny quote in the top left corner:
        
        “Programming X-Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using Roman numerals” – Anon
  - Colin on
    April 29, 2012 at 9:23 am said:
    
    Apologies, correction withdrawn. I don’t tweet and so haven’t seen any info on the implementation on Pi.
    
    Colin
    
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max1zzz on
April 28, 2012 at 5:17 pm said:

right, now i know what i’m doing to test out my Pi when it arrives in a couple of weeks

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Thomas on
April 28, 2012 at 5:37 pm said:

Does this game require a server or is it peer2peer?
I have a dedicated linux server in Amsterdam where I can host it on. Might be a nice feature for the Raspberry Pi community.
I’d like to hear your opinion on this

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- Thomas on
  April 29, 2012 at 11:56 am said:
  
  The server is up and running:
  IP: rbpi.servequake.com:27960
  
  It might be down sometimes, because I am making adjustments to it.
  
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David Strong on
April 28, 2012 at 6:11 pm said:

You guys just like to tease! =D

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Gordon on
April 28, 2012 at 6:57 pm said:

Liz…

Congratulations for finding a valid use of the word ‘serendipitous’ I’ve been trying for years to use it in conversation but it just doesn’t happen!

Gordon

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- David on
  April 28, 2012 at 10:00 pm said:
  
  It does take a rather serendipitous circumstance to be able to use it in normal conversation, doesn’t it?
  
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- DeliciousRaspberryCake on
  April 28, 2012 at 10:12 pm said:
  
  All of science is based on serendipity
  
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Dave on
April 28, 2012 at 7:17 pm said:

Does it have sound effects yet?

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- Danteuk on
  June 4, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:
  
  Any one got sound on this working yet ?
  Got it running on Debian build, seems a little jerky but see other posts about it be hardware accelerated for the VM stuff etc.
  
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modmypi on
April 28, 2012 at 11:46 pm said:

Can of caffeinated drink . . . . Check.
Raspberry Pi . . . . Check
Headphones. . . . . Check
Mouse and Keyboard. . . . . Check
40″ Flat Screen LED TV. . . . . Hell to the check.

Game on.

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- tzj on
  April 29, 2012 at 1:08 am said:
  
  but you forgot the remote!
  
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  - modmypi on
    April 29, 2012 at 12:30 pm said:
    
    Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
    
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Tass on
April 29, 2012 at 1:08 am said:

Looking good! Any info on how to get it all set up?

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Liam Jones on
April 29, 2012 at 7:17 am said:

I’ve been following Hexxeh for a couple of years now from his early chromium builds (i think he was 17 at the time). This guy is a truly remarkable developer. And has a cool name to boot.

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ADAMPOKE111 on
April 29, 2012 at 8:37 am said:

Can I just note moajority of the people who want a raspberry pi don’t have one. Quake III has the potential for HD graphics and map rendering but fir fast loading turn all settings to a powersaving and or l

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wombat on
April 29, 2012 at 9:27 am said:

Sadly my ping rate on my PI is approx 1 to 2 months (still no confirmed delivery date) so i will probaply lose the death match.

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linker3000 on
April 29, 2012 at 11:15 am said:

I’ve just installed this on my RPi for a bit of light relief and out of curiosity – it’s been running as an Asterisk VoiP server up to now! I have to say that the rendering speed is amazing and it’s a good testament to the design of the RPi, especially the choice of GPU. Well done to all concerned – on both the hardware and software side.

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- wombat on
  April 29, 2012 at 12:04 pm said:
  
  How well does Asterisk VoiP run on the PI and is Free PBX available yet, one of the things i’m considering is replacing my PBX with a PI, my monitor less, 20 user PC based PBX draws 144watts or 3.5kw a day ie costs just under 50p a day to run, a PI drawing well under 10w or .25kw a day will cost 6p to run which gives a massive saving of 160 a year for a 30 squid outlay makes a very good return on investment!
  
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  - linker3000 on
    April 29, 2012 at 1:50 pm said:
    
    Asterisk is running fine but I haven’t bothered with a GUI yet and hand-coded the test extensions straight into the config files. I haven’t tried FreePBX at this time (I wonder if it’s a bit too heavy for the RPi?), and it would be nice to find a lightweight console-based program to do the setup work, alas I haven’t found one yet.
    
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Davespice on
April 29, 2012 at 1:20 pm said:

Hi guys!
I have tested this and it works a treat. Only issue is lack of sound, I think Quake 3 can be configured to output sound to an Alsa driver. I am just not sure how – so if anyone knows a way please let me know.

Dave

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- Dave H on
  April 29, 2012 at 11:11 pm said:
  
  Well, no sound really means it can only run 1/2 of Quake 3. But, hey, it’s only a little lie to say it actually runs Quake 3! ; ) I hope someone get’s the sound working.
  
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- DMF on
  May 1, 2012 at 11:37 pm said:
  
  I found this site that has created a work around for the x86 binaries, I don’t know if they would be easy to modify for the PI version.
  
  http://nullkey.kapsi.fi/et-sdl-sound/
  
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pygmy_giant on
April 29, 2012 at 8:03 pm said:

Daddy….. can you get me a Raspberry Pi – its only £30 and my teacher at school says its got lots of educational software ……. please daddy….. pleeeease….?

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the_architect on
April 30, 2012 at 11:17 am said:

Q3DM9 – Hero’s Keep
Nice choice for the screenshot, loved that map so much back when I used to play Q3A. Add 16-32(!) bots, disable friendly fire… and prepare for the carnage.

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taixzo on
April 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm said:

That’s it, I’m getting a Pi. I’ve been avoiding it because I just spent $150 on a BeagleBoard and don’t want to feel like I’ve wasted my money, but…I’m ordering a Pi now.

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Lob0426 on
April 30, 2012 at 5:36 pm said:

I don’t know about the PC use. I installed Q3 on my system last night. Played all the way through bring it on. My timedemo was 920 to 968 FPS(1.2 to 1.3 seconds)! That was at the maximum recommended graphics setting which is only like 800×600. Anything after that and the screen was either smaller hat the monitor or larger. Timedemo did not change at 1600 x 1200. I will have to play with the settings and see if I can get a higher resolution onto the screen.
In the menu console:
Timedemo 1
Demo four
It indicates 90 FPS continuously during game play with no drop at all. That is where the cap is set in the stock config.
i7-2600, 8GB, Radeon 6770 1GB.
Has anyone ran the timedemo for the RasPi? Liam was showing 135 FPS in the showFPS in the upper right corner. My system when I bought quacke3 used to run 147FPS. If the RasPi is running at 135 it is doing pretty good. What memory config are you running Liam? 224Mb, 192Mb or 128Mb? Did you change the swap file size? Are you running it from the SD card or from a USB? Are you using the cache for the SoC or the FPU? Come on Liam a little detail for us dedicated gamers!

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- Liam McLoughlin on
  April 30, 2012 at 9:13 pm said:
  
  I’ve not really played around with it too much to get the FPS jacked up, but I did try both 128MB and 192MB splits, and it didn’t seem to make a whole lot of difference. 224MB is a no-go, the game won’t even start.
  
  It seems to be more CPU bound and GPU bound to me at a brief look. Feel free to play around though and let me know how you get on, I’d be interested to hear what the optimal settings are.
  
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  - Lob0426 on
    May 1, 2012 at 12:36 am said:
    
    Hopefully I will have a RasPi in a couple of weeks or so. Then I will definitely give it a workout. The latest Debian enabled the cache so I am sure that helps. The original specs called for I believe 32MB video. Probably the 192 will give the best performance all a round. For those going for media players the 128 will probably be best. Nice job by the way on chrome. Hopefully the X drivers are not far off. They will help all over the place. And the ALSA drivers will be nice too.
    
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  - Onemoar on
    May 1, 2012 at 8:35 am said:
    
    This is because vanilla Io-quake 3 IS EXTREMELY cpu bound
    mostly due to the lack of hardware acceleration for things like VBO’s,portals and culling are all done in “software”
    another big cpu hog is the JiT-QVM compiler also a word of warning DO NOT use ANY optcode flags above -O2 the engine does NOT like it
    
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Da Fsh on
April 30, 2012 at 11:55 pm said:

Does having Chromium OS on a Pi mean we can view Netflix on our Pi’s now?

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- Lob0426 on
  May 1, 2012 at 3:42 pm said:
  
  Netflix will probably not work yet. You need accelerated graphics to run Netflix and the X11 graphics accelerator is not working yet. At Liam site he states chrome is not running very fast.
  
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Onemoar on
May 1, 2012 at 8:41 am said:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/etxreal
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xreal/
if you can get that to compile and run under a ARM6 chip and barring any Opengl`funk
it should be tonns faster then nilla`ioquake3
(WHEN THE FANCY FX ARE TURNED OFF OFC!!)
it is completely unknown if it will even build and run under arm let alone boardcoms gpu core …
BUT You seem like a man that could make the impossible possible

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gencap on
May 2, 2012 at 1:06 pm said:

Could anyone test if (and how) UrbanTerror runs on the RPi?
The whole-thing (TM) is available at http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/
It’s sized “only” 1GB, very far from the 3.14 (π) MB, but it could be a killer-app.

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- Onemoar on
  May 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm said:
  
  I doubt it try +set fs_game q3u4
  also WTFHITS
  
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Chris on
May 4, 2012 at 6:12 am said:

I am curious as to what version of the server side you would need to run to be compatible with radium.hexxeh.net/quake3.zip.

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- Chris on
  May 5, 2012 at 9:06 am said:
  
  As I do not have my RaspberryPi yet but I do have a dedicated gaming server I could easily run a Quake 3 Server…. All I need to know is what version is compatible.
  
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  - Chris on
    May 5, 2012 at 9:28 am said:
    
    IOQuake 3
    
    Quake 3 Version 1.11
    
    Quake 3 Version 1.16
    
    Quake 3 Version 1.30
    
    Quake 3 Version 1.31
    
    Quake 3 Version 1.32
    
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    - Chris on
      May 5, 2012 at 9:48 am said:
      
      Cross your Fingers… I’m using IOQuake 3
      
      The server IP: 50.22.212.220:27960
      
      Enjoy!
      
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      - Lodewijk on
        May 6, 2012 at 2:17 pm said:
        
        It works fine, but there were only non Raspberry opponents.
      - Chris on
        May 6, 2012 at 10:40 pm said:
        
        @Lodewijk
        
        Thank you for replying… There are 3 Bots on the server as opponents for you to enjoy… It is 32 slots and open for anyone to play.
- Chris on
  May 16, 2012 at 5:14 am said:
  
  As of now I have the Quake server shut down as my Game Server has migrated from Washington to Chicago… I’ll post again when it is back up and running again!
  
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thetechy on
May 8, 2012 at 10:08 pm said:

As soon as my PI comes, w/c 28th May I am kicking butt!!!

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sam on
May 17, 2012 at 9:50 pm said:

this the source available please?

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Jack on
May 29, 2012 at 7:57 am said:

how do i run this game on raspberry pi? im currently runnung debain squeeze

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- Chris on
  July 6, 2012 at 8:00 pm said:
  
  I’m having little trouble too with starting Q3A in “debain squeeze”
  (probably the only Distro that I can Login properly)
  
  I am wondering too what the instructions are to run Q3A.
  
  Uncompressed Folder sitting on my Pi Desktop.
  
  I will setup another Server for Q3A after.
  
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  - Chris on
    July 6, 2012 at 8:25 pm said:
    
    Helpful Tutorial…
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1F1-8z8wQ
    
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Isaac on
June 24, 2012 at 12:31 pm said:

do you think it is possible to run an old elder scrolls or doom on the raspi

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- Chris on
  July 6, 2012 at 8:04 pm said:
  
  You might want to try a Linux version of DOSBox
  
  http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
  
  None for Debian Squeeze yet. Other Linux version maybe?
  
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- Chris on
  July 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm said:
  
  Ok, some luck with using DOSBox…
  apt-get install dosbox
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6APfxdJvko
  
  May find it a bit laggy… Should have used a Linux Port?
  
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Seth on
March 2, 2013 at 1:32 am said:

The link is broken! I can’t download!!

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