Maybe Quake elects the drive from which it was installed to be the CD drive? I've looked through the cfg and rc files but I don't see anything to set it. 

If that was the case, it would have to store that information outside the binary, i.e. in some non-temporary file. Take your pick. I'm sorry I... um... donthaveaquakecdatm so I can't test. :-) 

I looked at the source code and and did some google searching and found out the following:

1. winquake/glquakee/etc. use MCI to access and play the cd drive. MCI is an old, deprecated interface from windows 3.1 and 95 era.

2. the code is written on the assumption that there is only one cd drive. The command to open the device refers to it merely as "cdaudio".

There are two ideas I have for getting your music to play:

1. reorder the drive lettering so that the drive with the quake music on it gets magically chosen by MCI. Maybe it picks the one with the lowest drive letter, or the highest, who knows.

2. do something magical with system.ini to make the device "cdaudio" point to a different driver or something. I don't have any idea how this would work exactly :)

(Hypothetically, this could be fixed by adding proper multi-cd-drive support to quake, and adding an option to choose a drive letter at the command line or with a cvar.) 

will look into that.

"(Hypothetically, this could be fixed by adding proper multi-cd-drive support to quake, and adding an option to choose a drive letter at the command line or with a cvar.)"

Can I please talk you into putting that into fitz till you incoporate mp3/ogg music? 

My physical drive is X:
I have a drive with Daemon Tools as E:, mounted a naudio cd image.
Works like a charm. :)

I'll create a image of the Travail soundtrack and upload it. ;)
Don't forget to set the slider for the CD volume to non-zero. Duh! 

you could; I haven't really done any fitzquake development in the last year becuase of the hard drive crash I had. The lost work was actually fairly minor (maybe a few weeks worth) but more importantly, I lost my huge TODO file that had all the things to do and notes on how to do them.

Plus work, girlfriend, usual excuses :P 

I'll try that, curently my emulated drive is F. 

ok, i renamed my physical cd drives to x,y,z. I then mounted the quake cd image to f drive and voila, quake picks it up and plays the music.

However, I still get the same distortion and choppy sound effects (music sounds distortion free though) that I do when I just insert the original cd in a physical drive.

I cant work this sound issue out, quake is the only game where sound effects get distorted when cd music plays, games like q2 and half life work fine.

Oh well, at least with the mounted image, I can prolong the life of my original cd. 

metlslime mp3 suport code i very diferent that quakeworld clients? all new qw clients got it! isn�t much copy paste? 

you have THREE cd drives? THREE?

Come on, that's just greedy.

Out of curiosity, what do you have the third one for? Do you often copy multiple discs at once? 

one cd/dvd rom, one cd/dvd writer, and the third is an old cd/dvd writer that no longer writes properly. But since it's better than the other two drives at reading scratched discs, I left it in. 

http://www.ultrawet.net/10cent/scan/moebius/ltm/ultra-moebius-ltm-01.htm

Almost put this in the inspiration thread, but it seemed borderline. 

Does anyone have a document with all the Quake info like jump height/distance? 

I can't remember where I got the info, but:

Player Maximum Horizontal Jump Distance = 225
Player Maximum Vertical Jump Distance = 42
Player Maximum Fall Distance w/o Damage = 275
Minimum Gap Size that Player can fall through = 36
Maximum Step/Stair Size that Player doesn't have to jump to use = 17
Player Height = 64

I hope it helps :) 

I wonder what the max horizontal jump is with bunny-hopping - a single hop or after multiples? 

just log player origin every frame that he's ON_GROUND or whatever the flag is, and printf the vector length of origin from the previous origin.

I task Asaki with this ... uh, task. 

Did you know that not only was that comic an inspiration for Blade Runner, but if you look here:

http://www.ultrawet.net/10cent/scan/moebius/ltm/ultra-moebius-ltm-23.htm

You'lll see an Imperial Probe Droid, before there was such a thing =D 

I knew you'd chime in when I mentioned Moebius :)

The comic was written by Dan O'Bannon, who wrote Alien, which was directed by Ridley Scott, who directed Blade Runner. So it almost seems like Scott was influenced directly by talking to O'Bannon rather than just picking up the comic book in a store. 

you used "task" as a verb? Please make it your primary action item to wash your mouth out with soap. 

funky. Thanks for the link. 

Actually, Ridley Scott was/is a big Moebius fan -- if you've ever seen any of the storyboard art he did for Alien, you'd see the influence immediately. And don't forget that Moebius was one of the concept artists for the film, as well. 

Case in point, a "ridleygram" from Blade Runner:

http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/production/Linda-DeScenna/ridleygram01.jpg

Compare to The Long Tomorrow ;D 

make me cry with all this talk of Moebius. I miss my huge collection of Heavy Metal magazines from the 1980's (looking back, sometimes me mums tolerance amazes me)where a lot of the European strips would get reprinted. Any fans of Druillet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Druillet amongst the func_? 

What did you do with your HM collection, you bastard? I've got a few, but not nearly enough of them. My current dream is that they'll eventually release so many years of back issues on DVD (oh yeah, SO see that happening).

Anyways, Druillet does rock (got several installments of his Lone Sloane: Delirius and Gail in some of my HMs, but I've nver been as big a fan of him as Monsieur Giraud. Out of the Euro guys I also love Enki Bilal (The Immortal's Fete, Exterminator 17), Gaetano/Tanino Liberatore (RanXeroX) and Milo Manara (The Ape and the Giuseppe Bergman stories). 

What did you do with your HM collection, you bastard?

I went through a serious phase in the 90's. Graduated in PolySci instead of Art, worked for a few years as a paralegal for a firm whose only real client was R J Reynolds, got married for a time, somewhere in all that nonsense my Heavy Metal Mags, comic books, roll playing games, and some of my guitars dissapeared.

(It was when the Ex dragged me to see Phantom of the Opera and the two lobes of my brain tried to twist in a fatal knot to relieve the sheer boredom that I awoke from the nightmare.)