Quake running on my Chumby!

Posted: August 30th, 2008 |

Here is a quick video of Quake running on my Chumby. Sorry for the quality, my Nikon Coolpix takes barely adiquate video.

USB dongle tarball is available here, installation notes and comments can be found here.

Installation is a snap. Just untar the .tar.qz file to the root level of your thumbdrive (mine happened to be formated FAT16, I don’t know if that is a requirement)and reboot your Chumby.

Game play is supprisingly smooth, very close to the framerates I was getting on my iPhone playing Quake. Controls with the accelerometer are a little twitchy, but still very usable. A few more ports like this, and we may need to come up with an application loader similar to the “HomeBrew Channel “on the Wii.

[Update] I hadn’t realized it, but Bunnie has a better quality video of Quake on the Chumby on his page here.

2 Comments on “Quake running on my Chumby!”

  1. 1: Xobs said at 8:34 pm on August 30th, 2008:

    When I was working on porting Quake, I would frequently just copy everything to /tmp and run it from there. The shareware version of id1 fits nicely, and as long as you have it all lowercase, you should be good to go.

    When I was showing it around the Chumby offices, I was using fat32-formatted devices. It ought to work off an hfsplus-formatted device as well, which is the filesystem I normally use for perl development on Chumby as it supports symlinks.

  2. 2: Garrick said at 11:27 am on August 31st, 2008:

    Thanks for the info. Great work on the port. I never would have expected it to work this nicely. I am sure it went over great over at Chumby HQ.