...or at least how I got it to work for me.
I have been trying to get Western Quake3 (WQ3) running on my Mac Powerbook for a couple of weeks now. Ever time I would try it would crash.
I tried running it from the command line to see what the error was. It is what other on this forum has reported:
$ ./Quake3.app/Contents/MacOS/Quake3 +set fs_game westernq3
command line: +set fs_game westernq3
Q3 1.32b MacOSX-ppc 06/16/03
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
<snip>
../qcommon/vm_ppc_new.c:1736: failed assertion `opStackDepth < OP_STACK_MAX_DEPTH'
However, tonight I decided to start from scratch and do a fresh install. I downloaded the 1.30 release, then the 1.31 and 1.32 point releases and installed them. I then tried t run WQ3 and behold it worked. Bots, online multiplayer. It was all good.
Next I downloaded the Jaguar altivec beta update hoping that I had fixed my problem. But it had the same opStackDepth error.
So, it looks like you can use the last Quake3 1.32 point release before the Altivec betas. I found a full installer for it on planetquake3, below is the URL. The file you want is Quake3-132.pkg.sit.
http://www.planetquake3.net/download.ph ... d&lid=1213This will install Quake3 in the /Applications directory and populate the base3 and missionpack directories with the necessary .pak files.
FYI, I found two different installers for the G4 Altivec update, Quake3-132-Jaguar.pkg.sit and Quake3-132-AltivecTest2.pkg.sit. The jaguar package is dated June 6, 2003 and the AltivecTest2 packages is dated June 19th 2003.
If you install the Jaguar package It will rename the original Quake3.app to Quake3 10.1.app. This is the one that will work for WQ3. The update also adds Quake3 10.2 G4.app and Quake3 10.2.app. Both of these fail to load WQ3.
If you then install the AltivecTest2 package it will add Quake3 G4.app and Quake3.app. Still, the only one that will work for WQ3 is Quake3 10.1.app.
Good luck, hope to see you online.
-Ashner