includes an "impossible Fern" 

I got mine set up and working today. So far Ive installed Arch Linux, XFCE window manager and a few bits of software. Unfortunately, the web browser is insanely slow and I thought I had set up the keyboard layout properly, but apparently not.

I might try the raspbian distro to see if performance is any better there. Surely if it can run Quake III at 1080p, it can handle a web browser : / 

Is there a way to get a file removed from the quaketastic.com archive? I've put a new version of a file up, and figure the original should be removed because it's taking up space and people might get the outdated version. 

Email willem at quaketastic. 

I have only tried Raspbian, the one recommended for beginners - but yes, the performance was insanely slow. I don't really understand why. Sure, the hardware is underpowered, but as you say it should be more than good enough to run a web browser.

I can only imagine that there's some pretty unoptimised stuff in there, or other underyling issues that have yet to be resolved. Perhaps someone with half a clue can get it running more efficiently, but not me - within the GUI it was so slow that even just moving the mouse around rapidly causes it to go > 50% cpu usage.

That's the main reason I gave up tinkering with it and set up the Raspbmc media center instead - I just couldn't put up with how sluggish it was. If I can't even view a web page and mess around with stuff at the same time, I'm not going to get anywhere!

Don't believe the hype with Q3 either. I did get it running, but the frame rate was like... 15 fps average. With no sound. Mind you, that's running from within the GUI - I saw someone claiming to get 30-60 fps running it direct from the command line and with a bit of tweaking. So again in theory the hardware is capable of more. 

One thing I should add is this: as many people have said, the power supply is critical. If you can't give it enough power, it will be unstable and performance can suffer. In my case, I was using the apple charger - which many people have claimed is adequate for the job - but it just wasn't enough (either the peripherals I was connecting needed more, or the AU version of the power supply isn't as good as the US one).

So while I thought at the time I had enough power (it wasn't crashing), what was happening was that my mouse and keyboard would just intermittently lose power because the board couldn't give enough to the USB ports. This contributed to the sluggish and unresponsive feel.

When I wiped wheezy and installed Raspbmc instead, I also ditched the ipad charger and got a powered USB hub instead (one of the recommended ones). This helped with stability and performance, as well as allowing me to connect extra peripherals without issues.

Now that I've sorted the power situation I want to try running the proper OS again, but I need to get another SD card to mess around with first. I have a feeling it will be slightly better. but still not fabulous (Raspbmc runs pretty well, but I imagine that's simply because it's a lot leaner). 

Someone recently talked about how they tried the support for floating point coordinates in modern bsp compilers. Does anyone remember who that was / which thread it was in? 

The discussion began around here:

http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3&start=8207

There's executables linked later in the thread, not sure about code. 

Thank you Frib, but I meant floating point coordinates for brush boundary planes, not the face attributes. 

Sock.
Than.
Fern.
Tronyn.
Necros.

For recent Quake releases. Been some great and varied Quake action in the last month. 

Yeah, definitely. I still have Fern and Than's second map to play!

I hope to release a map myself soon. I'm slowly working through a large collection of changes that Sock suggested, so maybe next year in the first quarter... 

 

r_speeds be dreamed 

Scraps in Wicked. Even tho Tronyn bashed it together each scrap is probably a full map size! 

There is less necros in Wicked than you think. :)

I remember way back when I originally made those scraps, it was basically the frontage with the blue windows (the rear of the first building), the lower area of that one place where you jump out of the water and are attacked by knights and the tall metal towers way at the back of the map (after traversing the first 'sewer' tunnels with all the zombies). 

Fern, you haven't seen Pitch Black?

Learn 2 film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

... you damn buddies :) 

Right... NOW! 

 

It's that time of the year again.
So merry christmas every one!
And thank you for all the fantastic maps you still make!