Quake on Japanese Pocket PC

[TOYO]

I have installed quake on a Japanese Pocket PC (CASIO EG-800) with IBM 340 microdrive and got the well known:<br>W_LoadWadFile: couldn't load gfx.wad <br>I swear I did do installation according the readme.txt.<br><br>Propable Problem: the directory root does show the memory card in the 2-byte Japanese language. Is it possible that quake.exe has problems to find the microdrive itself? Another problem could be that backslash is shown with the Yen-Symbol.<br><br>Has anybody experience with Japanese Pocket PCs?<br><br>

[RwGast]

Hmm no experince with japanese ppc's here. But are you really sure you copied gfx.dll into the ppc windows directory?

[Dan East]

Pocket Quake enumerates storage cards using the appropriate API call, so it will have the correct path to storage cards regardless of language. It also uses Unicode (which is 2 byte chars, as you indicated). You did unzip the file one time so it is pak0.pak.gz? You created the path Quake\ID1 on your Storage card?<br><br>Dan East

[esw]

Windows Explorer might hide the .ZIP extention from you when you first download the pak file. As Dan said, make sure it's unzipped once.

[TOYO]

email@address.com<br><br>Thanks for the prompt reply. But when I wrote I have read the readme.txt, I meant it. I.e. Doom4ce is running on my Casio. The install routine is similar. That prooves I am not too stupid. <br>I checked the installation again. I can not find the mistake.<br>Is no Japanese playing Quake?

[Dan East]

Have you tried installing the data file directly on your device? That would help determine what the problem is.<br><br>Dan East

[TOYO]

Dear Dan,<br>it worked. I copied the folder from the microdrive directly on the pocket pc. The error message did not appear after installing the files directly. <br>I wonder whether it is a problem of the microdrive.<br>Compared to Doom, Quake is much slower on my casio. Propably the problem of the small memory.<br>Anyway thanks!!

[Dan East]

From the standpoint of the engine, and what it does mathematically, and the fact that it contains an advanced scripting engine, Quake is a far, far more advanced piece of software than Doom. It also uses floating point math in its 3D engine, which is not directly supported by the Pocket PC hardware. That hurts the performance greatly.<br><br>Dan East