Quake 2 reduced price during time of AmiWest 2024

Hi!

During the AmiWest 2024 (25th to 27th October) my Q2 port (both OS4 and 68k) will be available for the reduced price of 11.95 EUR at Alinea Webshop.

My port supports the xatrix, rogue and zaero Addons as well as many multiplayer Mods.

Best regards,
MagicSN

Yes, they are. And I saw it is 11,99, not 11,95. Sorry

Bought amgaos3 version.

I bought it yesterday with PayPal, hope to receive the download link soon

Bought €10.08 just over £8

@TheMagicSN

Thanks. But there is something wrong with their site. Logged and try to buy on PayPal. Get to Confirmation page and it says click a "Buy" button. There is no Buy button any where.

Edit: Okay somehow managed to fix glitch by going to contact page and then back to cart to try again.

I tried to install it but with no luck. i mounted my quake2.iso and when installation asked me where it was i added it to my mounted iso.I managed to get the installation to 20% then it asked med where my quake2 disk was. This is the 68k version.

When you talk of Quake 2 disk do you mean the 68k version stuff written to a disk or the PC version with the datafiles ?

What happened exactly, was there some sort of error aborting the install ?

Note the installer needs an assign called q2ami: assigned to the installer directory (if you wrote it to a CD with that name obviously unneeded).

Note when it asks you about your Q2 Disk you do not needingly have it in disc form the data can be in a directory somewhere alternatively (either data from the CD or from Gog or from Steam).

@TheMagicSN

I extract quake2_68k.lha to ram: and start the installer from there. When it asks me to assign q2ami i choose the directory i just extracted to . I assign it to ram:q2_install_68k.

Then i get "Please to insert correct disk to continue". From there i cant continue i m stuck at 20%. If i click continue nothing happens.

I think the issue is there is tons of different editions of the Quake 2 CD and it seems the version you have is in some way different to the one I used. The easiest is always to use the Gog or Steam version (also gives you Ogg Vorbis versions of the Audiotrack and higher res video files).

The assumption of the installer is that there is a path

Quake2:install/data/baseq2

on the Quake2 CD. And that it is named Quake2: of course.

If this is not the case it cannot handle it. My suspicion is that the CD you use is not named Quake2:

That would explain the error.

In worst case you could of course manually copy the files (but then you would not have the PAK Files depacked and the game loads slower). Because of that the best would be to use a compatible Quake 2 CD or Gog or Steam install.

Best regards,
Steffen

@TheMagicSN
I bought the gog version but i cant see that there is iso file to download.

@Joeled:

ISO of what ? You mean the Gog version ? I do not think they provide it as a ISO (myselves I bought it via Steam, not 100% sure in which form GOG provides it, Betatesters of mine got it via Gog though).

Just copy over the files from PC to Amiga (in whatever form it comes, might be a zip or Windows exe or whatever with Gog, I am not sure) and during installation tell it where you placed the files.

If you cannot find it I can ask my Betatesters how Gog handled this again.

MagicSN

@TheMagicSN

GOG always comes as an installer .exe.
need to be installed on a PC and then within the GOG dir structure the files can be copied over.

the .exe is nothing an amiga could handle

@Raziel:

Suspected this. Thanks for confirming.
The other option is Steam were it is not an
exe (but i think you can only download the
game on a pc with the windows app there,
That‘s the one i got myselves).

@TheMagicSN it's not impossible to download on other systems, for example macOS, but I guess you're still downloading for Windows. You install Steam within Wine and then install it, then you can grab the files. Same for Linux.

I haven't done it yet but I did pick it up during AmiWest as the Steam files were on sale too at that time.