Port Status

Here is a table of the most up to date information we have regarding icculus.org/Quake3's working status on different operating systems. There are things to bear in mind when viewing this:

• The status column refers only to the latest information we are given, so it may be out of date.
• "Working" doesn't always imply "usable", see the Notes column.
• Status is one of working, broken or unknown.

You can keep an eye on the Subversion repository via the Web interface.

Implemented Features

• OpenAL support for sound. Surround sound supported.
• SDL being used for input, OpenGL context management, and sound. Though not on Windows yet.
• Colors converted to ANSI escape codes in terminal output. (set ttycon_ansicolor to 1 to enable this.)
• More supported platforms, see the table above.

The Future

Release Criteria

Before a release can occur, the following must occur for each platform:

1. Testing of Quake 3: Arena single- and multi-player.
2. Testing of Quake 3: Team Arena single- and multi-player.
3. Testing of at least one other Quake 3 modification. Possibly Urban Terror, Reaction Quake 3, or any other popular modification that puts the engine through it's paces.
4. An installer which include all up-to-date id pak files, requires original CD-ROM. Users will need to copy the pak0.pk3 file themselves.

Roadmap

• For 1.34:

  • Features implemented.
  • Meet release criteria (see above) for Win32, 32bit Linux, and Mac OS X.

• For 1.35+:

  • IPv6 support.
  • Merge unix_net.c and win_net.c.
  • Replace Windows DirectX backend with SDL.

• For 1.39:

  • Four player split-screen.

Note: The above is a list of steps that remain to be completed, so the lists will get shorter as release approaches. Items already completed are not on the roadmap.

PunkBuster Support

Even Balance's Punkbuster support can never be included with any open-source version of Quake 3 due to it being removed from the source-code before the release, and the binary-only nature of its anti-cheating software.

While it is possible that someone could write an open-source equivalent of PunkBuster, it's not very feasible for a number of reasons.