Hi GvG!
Ge van Geldorp wrote:
For those who are at the Linux world expo at Frankfurt, how is that going? I, and probably the rest of the people reading the mail lists whana know any news from you guys.
Yeah, sorry about not reporting earlier, I'd expected to be able to hook up to the Internet there in some way but that didn't happen.
We've been there with Aleksey Bragin, KJK::Hyperion, Steven Edwards and myself on all 3 days, Wednesday Emanuele Aliberti and Eric Kohl were there and Thursday Thomas Weidenmueller. I think Thomas already summed it up quite nicely. We didn't have as much visitors as at Linux World in San Francisco last year, but the people in Frankfurt were far more positive about ReactOS than the people in SF. I was also amazed at the number of people who had already heard about the project, must have been between 50 and 75%. We distributed a few hundred hand-outs and 80 LiveCDs. It was nice to see some of the people accept a hand-out, walk on with their head down reading it, suddenly stop and turn back to look at the demo.
That's good news.
Most of the time we ran the Quake 1 demo plus some other stuff, depending on
Quake 1 !!!!! how!?!!? write up a Howto_Quake_Reactos!
Please Please Please!!!!! 8^)
our mood. Sometimes ReactOS would crash after a few minutes, sometimes it would stay up for an hour or so. Running too many programs at the same time was a sure recipe for a crash. Still, most people didn't run away even if it crashed, they understood the alpha-state of development.
We also made contact with some other OSS groups, like the Samba people and the Linux-on-XBOX guys. Everyone seemed very willing to cooperate.
For me personally the nicest thing was to meet some of the other developers. I'd seen Steven before but none of the others. We also had some good discussions about future plans (what to target after 0.3).
I took some pictures, will post them on some website tomorrow, I'm too tired now.
Gé van Geldorp.
Very Good! James
From: James Tabor
Quake 1 !!!!! how!?!!? write up a Howto_Quake_Reactos!
Please Please Please!!!!! 8^)
1) Get Quake 1.06: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/quake106.zip 2) Unzip to e.g. c:\quake_sw and run install.bat in that directory 3) Get the Quake 1.08 patch: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/quake108.zip 4) Unzip and overwrite c:\quake_sw\quake.exe (note: 3) and 4) are probably unnecessary) 5) Get WinQuake 1.00: ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake/wq100.zip 6) Unzip to c:\quake_sw 7) Boot ReactOS 8) Start a command prompt 9) Go to c:\quake_sw and run "winquake -nosound -nojoy -dibonly -noautostretch -startwindowed" 10) Be suitably impressed and say "Wow!"
Gé van Geldorp
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James Tabor