but it hasnt been released yet has it? 

SleepwalkR is working on an SDL version of Fitzquake. Not really a new version but may become the new Fitzquake codebase.

Download:
http://www.kristianduske.com/fitzquake/

Thread:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60172&start=43 

SDL + OpenGL? 

Yes It is a replacement of the old one.
It was a hell lot of work finding textures with the same name but different look ;) 

Hard drive crashed, reinstalled quake through steam. when I try to run my screen is a tangled mess of neon green squares. Probably a simple fix but I'm two steps away from being a ludite. Any tips? 

This is probably completely unrelated, but when I moved to Vista+ATI card/drivers my screen was totally corrupt in Quake.

It took me a while to find the solution - seems that I had set gl_ztrick 1 years ago for a bit of a performance increase, but the new card/driver combo was pretty unhappy about that. It was all fixed when I set the variable back to 0 (which is the default anyway).

Just throwing that out there on the slim chance that you or anyone else experiences this problem. 

ATI card in THIS office computer doesnt like AguirRe's engine, as I mentioned before. I've tried changing the drivers, and it used to work fine. Probably the card is becoming fucked!

I was getting weird particles on the screen which wouldnt go away.

My tip - Check your drivers, download the most up to date/most effective drivers, make sure they are installed. When you re-installed your OS did you check your drivers for you video hardware?

(OK, so it might be a bit of an obvious one, but...... ho-hum) 

some of the more uptodate drivers stuff up older games, espeially with all this changing of opengl stuff.

I always keep the install file of an older set that I know works.

And frib, I've had that too, not with the current card or drivers but on my old video card gl_ztrick did really funny things in all quake/q2 engine games 

defaults to 1 in the original GLQuake AFAIK. I think it's supposed to improve performance on older cards at the expense of visuals. I always have it set to 0 to avoid z-fighting.

In some engines, it defaults to 0 (e.g. NehQuake) or cannot be set at all (e.g. Fitz, Tomaz). 

http://play.tm/wire/click/1782737

Unlike the last time I posted a link to these shots, these are actual images rather than scans from magazines.

Also I just read that (part of?) the game is set on the Sulaco after Ripley gets ejected towards fury 151. And apparently there will be no HUD.

Cool! 

http://www.gamegrep.com/showimage.php?pos=5&newsid=7752

About fucking time they made an aliens game that looked like *this* :) VERY HAPPY

I really really hope its not too consoley.... fucking consoles :( VERY UN-HAPPY 

Maybe that's the problem... 

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=14 

....you never did say what card you have, but if you look around there you'll probably find a driver which works (?) 

boosted performance by not clearing the zbuffer between frames. The only quality decrease is that the depth buffer had less precision, but I'm not sure that it was a noticable difference.

As a performance feature, it's really only relevant to performance on really old cards, AFAIK. 

Agreed! I know you love Aliens as much as I do :D

Really exciting stuff... bet it's gonna be scary too. I'm fully prepared to crap my trousers when it comes out. 

but whats the easiest way of playing deathmatch Q1 online?

I always look at, er, Quakeworld, or whatever, and cant see where the action actually is...

I get a bit sick of the UT2004 demo !

(It is a good demo, but I fancy Quake for a change) 

Years and years ago, it was Quakeworld launching from a copy of GameSpy/QuakeSpy. Not sure what the kids are using these days though. 

If you are in the USA you will have to play NetQuake I guess.
If you are european (or with a decent connection to eu) it's QuakeWorld. There are some ffa servers that always have players (xs4all and that russian one). http://www.quakeworld.nu

http://www.quakeservers.net 

Get a copy of a Quakeworld client you like (or at least can tolerate). Zquake is or at least was the Quakeworld equivalent of FitzQuake, but I'm not sure if it is still being maintained. FuhQuake is tolerable once you disable almost all of the bullshit "improved" effects and such.

Anything else is probably to be avoided (be careful of stuff like ezquake and nquake which are supposed to make it easier/better to play QW online... they come with so many spectacularly shit new effects, textures, models, etc etc that it really just isn't Quake anymore (and no, it's not better :))

Once you've got it configured, go to quakeservers.net, and in the menu on the left, go to QUAKEWORLD page and select "with players". You'll get a list sorted by country of all the active servers (with players).

Copy the address/ip, go back to your Quakeworld client and type "connect whatever" where whatever is the server name/ip. 

Well, I checked the Zquake page and it seems it's still going strong. I haven't tried the latest versions, but I can hope and assume this is still a solid choice. Go here:

http://zquake.frag.ru/eng/news/index.shtml

The list of features for this version includes this:

- NQ progs.dat is supported. The two Quake mission packs, Scourge of Armagon and Dissolution of Eternity, work right out of the box. So does Omicron Bot, the famous NetQuake bot that can play on any map and learn while playing.

Struth! 

Well that was fun!! Er, I did manage to connect to one "Game" on dm6, with one other dude, but I seemed to not understand what was going on. I had 000 000 for health and armor, couldnt take any damage, there were gold keys everywhere (!?) and the other guy was running around not really doing anything...

...also zquakegl.exe and zq-client-gl.exe say "unable to find glide2x.dll" when I try to open them, so I was having the "classic" visual style with zquake.exe (which I dont mind)

But anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I'll hopfully have better luck later! :-P 

...it only works when I disable internet security (!!), and then when internet security comes on again it leaves a tab on my task bar which cannot be raised... 

delete opengl32.dll that comes with zglquake (i presume) to get rid of the glide error. 

ezQuake is a good client for QW. The 'improved' effects aren't enabled by default. At least if you only download the client, not the entire nquake pack.

You have to type "ready" in the console to start a match on duel servers.