Quake3

So - here's some info on one of the most talked about "features" of the Raspberry Pi - Quake 3.  It's quite a simple process - just a few downloads (about 170MB).  As far as the environment goes, I'm running the latest Debian image.  If you don't have this you can download it here, and if you need some help getting it up and running, you can take a look at my guide here.

Files to download
There are two main things we need to download - the first is the update Quake Engine, kindly provided by Liam McLoughlin - you can download it here.  The second is a set of Quake files.  you'll have these if you own the game.  As I don't own the game, I need to download the files.  You can find them here - there are 9 files to download, totalling about 75MB.  NOTE/DISCLAIMER: This does not legally allow you to access the entire game.  Without a valid license key you will not be able to access anything other than the demo levels.

Installation
It's fairly straight-forward - 3 step.

Step 1
First, extract the contents of the quake3.zip file to a location you can access.  For this I've used /home/pi/quake3.  The Debian image comes with built in compression software - simply right-click and select 'Extract Here'

Once the files have been extracted, you'll see the following files and folders in the newly created quake3 folder:

Step 2
The next step is place the downloaded pak files and place them in the /quake/baseq3 folder.  Once copied in you should see the following files and folders:

Step 3
The last thing to do is ensure certain files have the relevant permissions you'll need to launch Quake 3.  To do this open up a Terminal window - this can be found in the 'Other' system menu:

Once open, type in the following commands, one by one:
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/start.sh
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/ioquake3.arm
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/quake3/ioq3ded.arm

EDIT 01/05/2012: Updated paths - thanks Pete!

Running Quake
That's alll the setup required - now we just need to run it!  For this you need to get out of the GUI and it needs to be run from the command line directly.  So - restart (to do this you can open a terminal window and type sudo shutdown -r now), log in, but don't start a GUI - rather browse to the quake3 folder and run the start.sh file using the following commands:
cd /home/pi/quake3
sudo ./start.sh

Here's the main menu:

Here's it loading:

Here's the gameplay:

I took a video, but after realising how absolutely bad I am at this I decided I'd hold of from posting it :-)

NOTE: That's my Pi in the white box - a prototype of something being built by another Pi fan.  It looks really good and I'd recommend it - I'll let you know once it's available.

Oh - and by the way, it's running at 1080p :-)