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Wolfenstein Linux Binaries Available

Posted by michael on from the chaingun-goodness dept.

gurb writes: "Acording to Christian Antkow's plan (finger xian@idsoftware.com or see webdog.org) linux binaries for the latest installment of Wolfenstein are out. Grab it all over at id's ftp server, enjoy!"

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  1. MIRROR!! by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Informative

    I got a mirror of it up...go to:

    http://shaz.dhs.org/~joe/wolfmp-linux-1.0.b2.x86.r un

    I look forward to seeing my bandwidth die.

    JoeLinux

    1. Re:MIRROR!! by YKnot · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think id should have provided some sort of cryptographic signature to give people, who are downloading the file from mirrors, the option to check whether their file has been tampered with. An executable which will be installed on so many servers certainly is a great vehicle if someone wanted to distribute a backdoor.

  2. From Linuxgames by satanami69 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Return To Castle Wolfenstein Linux Binary Released - Tuesday Nov 27 23:30:38 2001 - Updated by Michael

    id Software has released the multiplayer Linux binary for Return To Castle Wolfenstein. The announcement was made in Christian Antkow's .plan file. Big ups to Timothee Besset. The 4.57M download is available at:

    ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/wolf/linux/wolfmp -linux-1.0.b2.x86.run.

    Disclosure: I am an employee of Activision, Inc.

    Here are the install notes:

    This setup will install the linux binaries for Wolfenstein Multiplayer in /usr/local/games/wolfenstein (or any other location you request). It WON'T INSTALL ALL THE FILES REQUIRED TO RUN WOLFENSTEIN MULTIPLAYER. You will need to manually copy a number of files to the /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/main directory.

    From a win32 Wolfenstein installation, copy the following files to your /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/main directory:

    63211149 Nov 13 22:14 mp_pak0.pk3
    4449596 Nov 13 13:45 mp_pak1.pk3
    1118 Nov 13 16:59 mp_pak2.pk3
    315823656 Nov 13 12:50 pak0.pk3
    293887431 Nov 12 17:20 sp_pak1.pk3
    11026123 Nov 12 17:27 sp_pak2.pk3

    ENTERING THE CD-KEY:

    The first time you run the game, you will need to go to 'Options', and click on 'Enter CD Key' button. Enter the CD key (it's on your CD Jewel case).

    NOTE: you don't need to give a CD key if you are installing a dedicated server.

    SINGLE PLAYER:

    This release doesn't contain the single player binaries of the game. The menu command to switch to single player is present in the interface, but it is completely inoperant.

    Useful files in this installation:

    - see CHANGES for a summary of wolfenstein linux changes
    - see QUICKSTART for quick instructions to configure your dedicated server
    - see Docs/Dedicated Server Notes.html for more dedicated server information

    How to get help and report issues:

    - A FAQ with known issues and information about the linux binaries of Wolfenstein Multiplayer is maintained at the following address:
    http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux

    ttimo@idsoftware.com

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    1. Re:From Linuxgames by Calle+Ballz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Is there anyway to buy a linux license or cd for this game? one that comes with it's own cd key, it's own pak files & such? I dunno, if you're gonna show your support for linux gaming, you can't really do much by purchasing a windows game. Whether you buy the RTCW for the windows or linux, you still increment that statistic by one.

    2. Re:From Linuxgames by krogoth · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Download the Linux binaries. I'm sure they're counting every sale as a windows game, but if their servers get slashdotted for a month straight by people downloading the Linux version they might notice :)

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    3. Re:From Linuxgames by Seanasy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Tux Games will be selling the Windows version bundled with a custom CD that has the Linux binaries and "everything you should need to get it running."

    4. Re:From Linuxgames by cduffy · · Score: 2

      Millions of downloads indicate that lots of people already were willing to pay for it, via the Windows version, to get the CD key necessary for the Linux version to work.

      You *could* presume that all the people who buy the Windows version and download the Linux binary are buying the game with the intent to play it on Windows... but that seems rather shaky ground. Much more likely is that a large number of these customers are buying the Windows version of the game only because the Linux binary is available. This most certainly is a market.

    5. Re:From Linuxgames by cduffy · · Score: 2

      I'm not saying that the Linux gaming market is profitable, merely that your assertion (that the number of people downloading the Linux version is unrelated to sales) is mistaken.

      The linux gaming market may be unprofitable even if (say) 50% of all downloads of the Linux client represent a sale made on the basis of that client's availability. Hence, our positions need not be incompatible.

    6. Re:From Linuxgames by cduffy · · Score: 2

      The difference here is that this download is only useful to customers. Hence, Id's numbers aren't skewed by the numerous freeloaders who download demos (for instance) but don't play them; rather, almost all the downloaders indicate actual customers who have already put down money for the game.

      Yes, there exist lots of people who are unwilling to pay for their software -- but those aren't the people who are downloading this file, because it's useless to anyone who hasn't already put up the cash to pay for the game.

      Claiming that there is *no* market for Linux gaming is rather harsh -- I've purchased (that's right, *purchased*, as in sent money!) games from Loki, and will likely continue to do so in the future (from them or elsewhere, when I see something I really like). That the market is so small as to make persuing it an unuseful distraction for a company such as Id which doesn't specialize in such a thing, I may grant. That the market is utterly worthless is disputed, however, by the very existance of commercial games for Linux.

  3. Great... by dimator · · Score: 3, Funny

    As if I didn't have enough to do with MGS2, Super Monkey Ball, and $50 dreamcasts with dirt cheap games... now this.

    And Final Fantasy X just around the corner...

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    1. Re:Great... by zombieking · · Score: 2

      Well, I have the windows version of Return to Castle Wolfnestein. My only minor gripe is that I can't run my firewall when playing multiplayer or it crashes because I have a Voodoo 5 card. Other than that, the game is amazing. Here's a review on the Windows version from Gamespot.

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    2. Re:Great... by MindStalker · · Score: 2

      Run the quake helper on your firewall, should fix your problem. Voodoo 5? Sorry, your stupid! But try downloading the newest opengl (www.glsetup.com) and turning off as many of the voodoo 5 specific features as you can find.

    3. Re:Great... by zombieking · · Score: 2

      I wasn't stupid buying a Voodoo 5 card two years ago (except for the price of the card). Since 3dfx went under, I kick myself everytime I see the price of one of those now... Thanks, I'll try that.

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  4. Mirror by cstrommen · · Score: 4, Informative
    Since this probably will take down id's server I've mirrored the file on my web-server. The more the better :)

    Location: http://realityx.net/wolfmp-linux-1.0.b2.x86.run

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  5. WARNING !!! by nsebban · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big productivity low down all over the Linux world ! :)

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  6. Issues by Sho0tyz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This release isn't quite as nice as some of iD's past Linux offerings. First, this release only works for the multiplayer portion of the game. The single player portion is said to be supported in a later release, but who knows how long that will take. Second, you must use either wine or an actual windows installation to install this thing. Apparently it has to do with how the CD was put together, it's just one big EXE from which all the PAK files are extracted. So you must run the windows installer under wine so you can get the PAK files, so you can finally install the Linux binary. Seems like quite a hassle to me, I would really hate to install wine just so I could run one game natively under Linux. Apparently the people at Tuxgames are working on setting up some sort of linux installer. But what options do they really have? The way I see it they could either set up some sort of mini-wine distribution on their installation CD to extract the data from the EXE, or find out the compression scheme that this EXE uses and hack together some native linux program to get the PAK data out. Either way, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

    1. Re:Issues by psxndc · · Score: 4, Flamebait
      This'll be modded down, but moderators go for it, I've got the karma to burn.

      I can't believe your complaining that the company has put forth at least _some_ effort in this. They could easily turn around and say "If you want to play the game at all, you have to install Windows". There is no market for Linux games, no matter how many posts you see on /. that seem to the contrary. Maybe later when Linux has more of a foothold in the desktop OS space (that's another whole other holy war), but for right now, it makes no sense for a company to invest ANY money in developing a game's client for Linux. Should they invest in developing/porting server side code? Yes. The more servers, the more people can connect and enjoy the game which hopefuly means more sales, but the fact they are making an effort to provide _something_ to a market that they will lose money on should be applauded.

      Face it, we live in a windows based world. It's great that there are people that don't have windows installed at all. I seriously, truly envy you. I wish I could get rid of my install of Win98, but there is just too much stuff I'm not willing to give up yet. People like me that won't buy any new Windows software are in the minority in the consumer pool, and people like you that don't even run windows is even smaller. Don't complain that id (or whoever) is making a smart business choice by not investing their time and money into what is in the grand scheme of things, a black whole.

      psxndc

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  7. Want to help your fellow Linux gamers? by Nailer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux Castle Wolf rocks, but be aware of the following limitations:

    1) The current binaries are multiplayer full version only. No single player.

    2) The game must be installed under Wine or Windows. Which sucks...

    Now for the interesting bit:

    Everyone will love you if you fix this piece of software (or make your own) to work with modern Wise Installer archives.

    The Wolf3D CD contaisn a 500MB win32 setup.exe file in which the necessary pak files for the linus install go. Thsi is in wise installer format, which is similar to zip with different headers. Coders - if you can work out a way of extracting this archive under Linux, you have my external respect and the love of Linux Gamers everywhere. It should be pretty easy from my research (the software mentioned is non free qmail license source code) for someone with the skills, but I'm still teaching myself Kernighan and Ritchie.

  8. Demo? by Psiren · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can you use this to run the demo, or is that single player only? If so, is there any way to demo it under Linux yet?

    1. Re:Demo? by Lussarn · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yes there is a demo. Or multiplayer test I think it's called.

      Download here.

    2. Re:Demo? by Ace+Rimmer · · Score: 2, Informative

      This is multiplayer only. And no - you have to have a cd key. The mp-level from the demo is included.

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  9. Mirror, mirror... by SILIZIUMM · · Score: 2, Informative

    I found another mirror, FTP and HTTP. Enjoy it, 'cause WolfMP on Linux is a real killer - I mean it works very well :) I hope the SP part will be avaiable soon !

    Here's the mirrors :
    http://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/rtcw/wolfmp-linu x- 1.0.b2.x86.run
    ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/rtcw/wolfmp-linux -1 .0.b2.x86.run

    1. Re:Mirror, mirror... by MindStalker · · Score: 2

      Actually I recently found out that the reason for the space is not the ascii art. But that its needed to allow for good word wrap flow. Because long words would cause it to sometimes not wrap sometimes and produce a scrollbar. Anyways I think slashdot could handle this in a better way. or even make it recongize url's and automatically make them links. :)

  10. Re:Uhm by zachoen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Loki ports windows games when no linux version is made available. Since ID made linux binaries, Loki doesn't need to. We should be glad for this, and hope other companies follow suit.

  11. try this by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    STFU, open your email client and fire off a quick email to ID.

    It should read something like the following...

    Dear Sirs,

    I humbly bow down at your feet, for thou hast graced upon we humble followers of the Linux faith, another one of the greatest games of all time.

    We of the Linux faith understand that you will be compensated in no way whatsoever for your efforts to provide we few with the pleasure of playing your games, so I must reiterate how greatful we truly are.

    Sincerely,
    Whiny bitch

    P.S. And if you have time, do you think it would be possible for someone to write an installer? But only if you're feeling really generous. If not, that's ok, I'll just use wine to install it, I am an intelligent Linux user afterall, so it's no problem for my whiny ass.

    P.P.S. My humble thanks again.

    And if they still don't write an installer, you STFU and use wine to install it and thank the Linux Gods that there are people on this earth who do things even when it doesn't help them in any way. And do so quickly before you anger the Linux Gods and the folks at ID for being so unappreciative.

    Damn... you'd think people could appreciate things once in a while...

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  12. Not that it means much.... by mystery_bowler · · Score: 2

    'cause I don't plan on downloading, but I'd just like to give a little thanks to id and Raven (didn't Raven develop RTCW?) for being such good supporters of the Linux commmunity. I do believe id is the only game development company in the world that will make a game readily available to Linux users without the game first being a huge hit (although I'm sure RTCW will be a huge hit, at least in sales).

    It means a lot that they are this willing to put in the extra effort. Thanks, id.

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  13. OS X by Refrag · · Score: 2

    Graeme, where are the Mac OS X binaries? :) I took my iBook to the parents' for Thanksgiving and really wanted to play some Wolfenstein on it. Unfortunately, the harddrive on my mother's E-machine didn't have enough free space to install Wolf. :(

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    1. Re:OS X by Refrag · · Score: 2

      I've played Wolfenstein multiplayer test on my iBook. I cranked the graphics all the way down before I begain playing it. It ran smoother than Wolfenstein on my Win2000 box with moderate graphics settings and a GeForce 256. I could probably crank the graphics up quite a bit and still get good performance. Now all I need to do is buy an extra USB mouse for my iBook -- FPS games and trackpads don't mix.

      Both my iBook and my Wintel PC are 600mHz, so the iBook is faster.

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  14. Finally! by SnapperHead · · Score: 2

    I can now go out and buy the game :) I wasn't gonna get it until a Linux port was avaiable. I played the multi-player test for a while, which got boring, becuase I played it everynight for a month :)

    I have read some people complaining about the installation. Yes, it sucks, but at least they ported it. Durring the initital talks about RTCWS, they said there wouldn't be a Linux port. Not even the current binary download.

    Be happy they changed there minds.

    If ID Software is saying they just barly broke even on Q3A for Linux, why don't they have both versions on the CD ? Then just have the server browser detect the OS its running on for stats and what not. I think that in it self would help move more people to Linux.

    Games on Linux is a large reason why people aren't switching. Loki games has done a *VERY* good job at it so far. There installation program that they GPLed, is being used in some cool places. For example, all Borland products released on Linux use it :)

    If they would only port Everquest to Linux, you would have a swarm of people switching to 100% Linux.

    At any rate, thanks ID and (Gray matter is it ?) for the Linux port.

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  15. Re:Explain please, why no single player? by cigarky · · Score: 2

    A linux binary will be available shortly through Tux Games which will also have the Windows version on the CD. It can be pre-ordered now.

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  16. network firewall issues by brer_rabbit · · Score: 2
    anyone know specifically what ipchains rules are necessary to play this? I constructed my firewall from Rob Ziegler's site. With this firewall and ip masquerading I can't play RTCW over the net unless I bring the firewall down first.

    I suspect it might be linked to the fact that RTCW seems to request both the server port (which is normal) and a specific client port (which is rare). Ie- port 27960 on both client and server. This might be interferring with ip masquerading. I'm not sure. Anyone get it going?

    1. Re:network firewall issues by Seanasy · · Score: 3, Informative

      The lameness filter won't let me post it here. I've put the necessary changes to your firewall script here. I used the same tool to generate my ipchains firewall and added this. I can play Quake3 and Wolf MP test just fine.

  17. Do what I did... by laserjet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey everyone,

    Do what I did (if you are a RtCW gamer). It takes less than 5 minues, and you will feel good about it.

    Go to their web site. Go to the "Contact" page, and send them an email thanking them for their contribution. I know if I was a developer, and I got a few emails saying thanks, it would really be a nice thing. So, say thank-you from the Linux community. They didn't have to do this, they chose to.

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  18. Re:We Don't Exist !!!! by SCHecklerX · · Score: 2
    Uh...


    It's hard to pay for games that don't exist.


    I will *NOT* buy any windoze games. I *DO* however own linux games from Loki. If they don't want my money, fine. Games aren't such a necessary part of my life that I'm willing to bother with having windoze on any of my machines. Too bad.


    I'm sure there are others who won't buy it until it is linux native either. What's the point of having wolf if you don't get to play singleplayer? Network will just be another quake. yay.

  19. Re:No SP=No Interest by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2
    I don't get it. Why can't you play a multi-player game by yourself? Or won't it run without a second copy running on another PC? But then, how do you start the first copy, or do you have to start them all at the same time? I don't get it.

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  20. that's not the point of junkibuster by hawk · · Score: 2
    > people are willing to go to great lengths to give nothing back to
    > the creators, installing junkbuster or even no longer going to certain
    > sites that have ads.


    I don't believe I've ever blocked an ad that didn't blink at me first. When my 200mhz K6, a fairly fast machine at the time, was brought to its knees by javing two (2) web pages open at the same time (java disabled), I put in junkbuster. Now it's just habit bo block anything that blinks at me.


    hawk