Quake II Mac 10.8

[harryhood]

Anyone know how I can get Quake II running on Mac 10.8? I have not played in a while and when I try to start it up, it says "an error has occurred: couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx'

It's the same quake II app and files I've been using for years and years, so it's gotta be 10.8.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

[Whirlingdervish]

http://dervish.tastyspleen.net/files/colormap.zip

this should be the file, in case it's just missing.

it goes in quake2\baseq2\pics

I think jdolan had a aprq2 port that was working on mac.. not sure tho.

[erik]

I vaguely remember having that issue when I first tried to get Q2 to work on my Mac....

I am using fruitz of dojo or something like that, so let me know if you still have issues and I'll see if I can send you the exact files that are in my pics folder (I doubt they're different).

[Jay Dolan]

You can try my Quake2 build here:
https://github.com/jdolan/quake2

But I'm actually looking to EOL that project and instead provide Mac packages of Q2Pro. If you want to try compiling that, my fork of Q2Pro is available here:
https://github.com/jdolan/q2pro

My fork of Q2Pro is identical and in-sync with mainline Q2Pro development; my only changes are for Mac OS X support and packaging. Like I said, you'll have to compile it yourself at the moment, but fairly soon I'll have a .dmg file available for download. Might even get to it this weekend.

Good luck,

Jay

[erik]

Jay, if you could walk me through the compiling instructions again, I might be interested in giving Q2Pro a try.  Or, I can wait for .dmg   Let me know!

[[BTF] Reflex]

Nice,  maybe it handles transparencies better

[claire]

Anyone know how I can get Quake II running on Mac 10.8? I have not played in a while and when I try to start it up, it says "an error has occurred: couldn't load pics/colormap.pcx'

typically that error indicates you're missing pak0.pak in your baseq2 folder. If you don't have a real copy of q2 around somewhere you can get that file from the demo version (it's just missing most of the single-player maps).

http://tastyspleen.net/quake/downloads/q2-314-demo-x86.exe