I've continued to play with Caldera 1.1 since my install stream last night. I've got AT&T VNC going (TightVNC wouldn't build due to a too-old zlib), and I've installed StarOffice and a couple games.
Chat challenged me to get Doom running on it. I'm gonna see if I can find the original 1.10 Linux release; I bet it'd work!
Well, if Doom runs, will Quake run?
Turns out there was in fact an official Linux port of Quake 1, and someone uploaded a copy to the Archive just a month and a half ago: https://archive.org/details/quake_202503
I gave it a whirl on the Caldera machine. The RPMs were too new so had to use rpm2cpio to install, but it did indeed work! I tried the SVGALib version, which runs from the console and plays exactly like the DOS version. Mouse is kinda sluggish but eh.
The console identifies it as "Linux Quake 1.30".
I had to miss the install but. That. Rocks!!!
Played with it some more this morning.
* Tried a kernel update again, this time just going up one version from the stock 2.0.29 kernel to upstream 2.0.30. Configured, did `make dep modules modules_install zImage`, copied zImage, lilo'd, rebooted, worked fine. My best guess is that 2.0.40 didn't work because either my lilo or my gcc were too old.
* Enabling APM support broke X. Retried without it and X works again.
* MIDI out/wavetable on the SB16 works now; stock kernel only gave me OPL3 FM.
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