Re: [ros-general] Any news from Frankfurt expo?

[James Tabor]

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

[Ge van Geldorp]

>   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