Quake 1 Original Release

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Quake 1 Original Release

Hey I Picked up Macintosh Full Retail Quake Video Game and been having problems with it starting up and was wondering if possible it might be patching issues which has not been done yet trying to find older files to patch it with if anyone remembers playing this game or had similar issues with this game in past would love some help and advice will post specs below thank you for all your time

Sincerly Nate

Powerbook 1400/c 166Mhz
48 MB Memory Installed
64 MB Virtual Memory Running
10 GB 4500 Hard Drive
12X Stock CD-ROM
Mac OS 9.1 Installed

Apple Posted Specs

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP170

Apple Power Mac G4 1.25 DP, Apple Power Mac G3 400 B&W, Powerbook 1400/166c, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Classic, Classic 2,LC 1, LC2, LCIII, Apple II/GS, Apple Newton 120, IPod Nano 2G

Posted on Jun 20, 2008 4:54 PM

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dodso003

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Jun 20, 2008 11:07 PM in response to Nathan Marshall

I remember having trouble getting Quake to run on my 200MHz UMAX SUPERmac c500 -- this was like 1997, `98. I think it was due to low RAM (16MB) and VRAM. Try these things:
1. copy the application to the Hard Disk and run it (don't run it from CD)
2. turn off Virtual Memory
3. do Command+I on the Quake program (on the HD) and allocate as much memory to it as possible without causing the Finder to crash.
4. also try running it at 320x240, or dropping your monitor's resolution to 640x480@60Hz(and thousands of colors) and rutry to run it; see if anything changes.

It could very well be your amount of VRAM. I don't know how much VRAM your 1400c has, but if it's like 2MB you'll probably be hurting to run Quake without a crash. That's how my SUPERmac c500 was. Occasionally I run the classic version of Quake just fine under Mac OS 9.2.2 on a 350MHz B&W G3 with an ATi Radeon [Mac] video card (32MB RAM).

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