Quake 3 on your Raspberry Pi

Quake3 is a first person multiplayer shooter. This game is today quite old, but it is already played (at LAN parties) and it is often used for benchmark tests for graphic cards as reference.

Installation

First, we need to install all programs that are needed for building quake 3:

sudo apt-get install git gcc build-essential libsdl1.2-dev

You can get the free available source code with the following commands. We also unzip the package and move into the directory:

wget http://github.com/raspberrypi/quake3/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd quake3-master

Now we need to change the build.sh file. so we open it with an editor:

vi build.sh

There we need to change line 8, 16 and 19 with the following lines:

ARM_LIBS=/opt/vc/lib
INCLUDES="-I/opt/vc/include -I/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads"
#CROSS_COMPILE=bcm2708-

Now its time to recompile Quake 3 for your Raspberry. This will lasts some minutes (it tool nearly an hour). You can start with:

./build.sh

The last thing is to install the game assets. You have to download and unpack them:

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1816557/Q3%20Demo%20Paks.zip
unzip Q3 Demo Paks.zip

All PAK files need to be copied into your /build/release-linux-arm/baseq3 directory. From this directory, you can then start Quake 3!

cd /home/pi/quake3-master/build/release-linux-arm
sudo ./ioquake3.arm

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