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From: "richard luff" <rluff@globalnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.servers
Subject: Re: Need help. Setting up quake server on unix box
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:34:34 +0100
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I think you'll find Quake 2 is only ported to Linux - which is free anyway.

Regards

Hugh Janus

Philip J. May wrote in message <35343908.4A8BB1FE@highway1.com.au>...
>I would like to hear from anyone out there who can suggest or point me
>in the right direction so I can setup a quake server on a UNIX box. Most
>likely FreeBSD or Solaris or something along those lines.
>I would like to know where I can download the source to quake to make
>this possible and what configuration settings would be needed to make it
>work.
>
>If the above is NOT possible... I would like to know how ISPs' have
>quake servers! Are they just normal PC'z running quake in dedicated
>server mode???
>
>Any assistance would be appreciated!
>