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(0) Index

(1) Linux- and Amiga-specific extensions
(2) New utilities used
(3) More thank-sayings
(4) Open questions?

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(1) Linux- and Amiga-specific extensions

With the conversion of QrdQ - The Movie to Linux and for the Amiga, a few
changes had to be made. First off all, we had to replace the work of
StrangeUtil by other appz, which turned out not to be too easy everytime.
Basically, we took a PAK-compiler and a MP3-decoder for each platform, and
combined their work in the respective install-scripts in order to replace
StrangeUtil. Due to some complications with the tools available, we were
forced to release all the QrdQ date as kinda "open source" though, which means
unPAKed and accessible to anyone. It will be put into a PAK file during
installation though, so you don't have to mind a file-overload :P

Another, more important change was the conversion of FIXLOOP which had to be
made. The latest version now supports the choice between 11Khz and 44Khz
quality sound on both platforms, which is an exclusive feature that is missing
under Windows!! =)


(2) New utilities used

These are the tools which come into use under Linux or at the Amiga:

1) Not included - get them by your own!

Linux: mpg123 <http://www.mpg123.de/>
       sox <http://sox.sourceforge.net/>
Amiga: MPEGA <no URL available>

Used to convert the MP3s to WAV.

Linux users - if you happen to have one of the 'newer' Red Hat packages
installed, you might very likely also have "mpg123" and "sox" already.

2) Included in the download - you don't have to bother.

Linux: Qfiles, from the Qutils collection <http://openquartz.sourceforge.net/>
Amiga: Qtools <no URL available>

These progs build the PAK file(s) for Quake after MP3 converion has finished.

Qtools is freeware and all of it's belonging files are kept in a subdir of the
AMIGASTUFF drawer.

Qfiles had to be modified slightly in order to make it work properly with
command-line params. A copy of our modified Qfiles source can be found at
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetquake/illmind/qutils.zip

(just for the lawyer ;)

There are no seperate webpages for MPEGA or Qtools given, but you should be
able to get them from Aminet <http://www.aminet.net/~aminet/>


(3) More thank-sayings

Of course, I have to express my thanks to the two guys responsible for these
excellent conversions:

Robert Seace (Linux) and Thomas Veress (Amiga)

Robert firstly "hacked" himself into QrdQ in order to let it run on his Linux-
machine, and such brought up the idea of converting it in the first place.
Thomas on the other hand sent me a trickdemo for my site when I noticed that
he actually was an Amiga-Quaker, who are as scarce as white elephants I
believe. Beeing a nostalgic child of the Amiga era by myself, I was quite
enthusiasic hearing about the possibility to do a Amiga-conversion as well.
A huge "fat-ass props" may be spoken out to both of you for doing all that,
and beeing both patient with me and my lazyness (most often due to real-life
stress) and still trustworthy when it came down to some tasks. Believe me, it
wasn't too easy organizing something I didn't have much of a clue of either ;)


(4) Open questions?

If you still got questions to QrdQ in general, send some e-mail to
<Nagasaki@PlanetQuake.com>, and I'll try to answer as soon as possible.

If you have some special Linux- or Amiga-related questions you can be almost
sure I have no idea of, I'd be glad if you could straight step into contact
with the peeps who know what they are talking about:

For Linux-related questions: Robert Seace <ras@magrathea.com>
For Amiga-related questions: Thomas Veress <COJO-D@gmx.de>

And now I hope you enjoy my run!


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-[AK]Nagasaki 2001/12/24
http://www.PlanetQuake.com/illMind