If you thought that nDoom running on a TI-Nspire CX was impressive, then watch out: Rwill has taken things even further with a port of Quake, another popular first-person shooting classic originally released in the 90's for the Nintendo 64 and computers!

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Although I have run my fair share of tests it would be cool if some other people can test it and report any errors found. Like graphical errors or crashes.

So if someone wants to test it here is a current build + sources. You need a CX to run, non-color nspire wont work.

In addition to the quake binary for the nspire you need at least the shareware data file pak0.pak. This is kind of hard to get when not running MS-DOS and one wants to honor the license so I deliver instructions:

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Get the quake shareware release quake106.zip somewhere of the internet.
One place is here: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/quake106.zip

Inside the quake106.zip is a file called resource.1 - Extract it and rename it to resource.x

Get the LHa compression/uncompression utility. For Unix ask your packet manager. On windows this is somewhat hard but you can get a binary release here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/lha.htm ( Binaries, the lha.exe inside the .zip is in /bin ). I read somewhere that the japanese Windows 7 gets it as an addon for the file explorer so you can also try that.

Move resource.x to a temporary directory and extract it. On windows you can do this with "lha x resource.x" if you moved lha.exe to the same temporary folder or lha.exe is in your $PATH. This hopefully creates a lot of obsolete files and a directory called "id1" which contains "pak0.pak"

You can also get Quake off Steam or so I heard.

-- End Of Instruction of how to get the Shareware pak0.pak --

MD5 Sums of the quake data files
pak0.pak 5906e5998fc3d896ddaf5e6a62e03abb
pak1.pak d76b3e5678f0b64ac74ce5e340e6a685 ( registered version )

On the calculator you need a directory structure like so:

quake/nquake.tns
quake/id1/pak0.pak.tns
quake/id1/pak1.pak.tns ( optional, if you bought Quake and got the pak1.pak file of the registered version put it there )

Then run nquake.tns

This obviously requires Ndless, meaning that if your calculator has the newly released (and impossible to downgrade) OS 3.9, then you are screwed. Ndless is compatible with OS 3.1 and 3.6. Also, make sure to follow the install procedure described in the quote above or in the topic.

This is definitively another breakthrough in Nspire game development. Last Summer, the same author released Desgolf for the TI-89, which was the first ever 68K first-person shooter to feature variable wall height and diagonal walls.

nQuake download link: http://www.omnimaga.org/ti-nspire-projects/so-i-am-porting-that-first-person-shooter-to-the-nspire/?action=dlattach;attach=17714
Discussion thread: http://www.omnimaga.org/ti-nspire-projects/so-i-am-porting-that-first-person-shooter-to-the-nspire/

That's mighty impressive. What's next, UT2004? With LAN that'd be a lot of fun!

That'd be awesome.

Also holyshit it is epic.

But imagine the fun in porting wifi to a totally undocumented driver!

Doesn't wifi only work under Linucx though (via USB dongle)? Or has people managed to discover how to do it via Ndless with a proprietary OS installed?

So if I install ndless in a car, the car could drive itself???

Even some Android tablets can run Caeser III or Starscraft via emulation (Winulator, which development was ceased), using a fork of Wine and some kind of static binary translator (a.k.a. Winulator, later Wine with custom binary translator in Pandora Armstrong Linux), the same trick cannot be used on nSpire easily, since the screen is to small (320*240) and the CPU are too weak to some those classic games. Even UT could be ported to nSpire, the small screen could be a major setback to decent playback.

"Even UT could be ported to nSpire, the small screen could be a major setback to decent playback."
Has anyone figured out how to attach a larger external monitor to the Nspire yet then?