DarkPlaces

Debian buster’s DarkPlaces 020180412beta1 (the last with the GL 1.x/2.0 renderpaths) as darkplaces-gl2: its package.

Technical notes

Debian’s DarkPlaces (020180908 and the 2026 git snapshot) has only GL 3.2 core and GLES2 renderpaths, so it can’t run on the RSX. The last snapshot with the GL 1.1/1.3/2.0 renderpaths (RENDERPATH_GL11/GL13/GL20, an SDL2 window, vid_gl20 0 for the combiner path) is 020180412~beta1, Debian buster’s orig tarball (snapshot.debian.org, upstream.mk). Our darkplaces-gl2 (its package, TYPE=upstream, make darkplaces-gl2-deb, 2 MB) builds it with Debian’s 13 patches (link options, no SSE rasterizer off x86, GPU skinning off) and -std=gnu17 (the code uses false/true as enum names; gcc 15 defaults to C23). It installs /usr/games/darkplaces-gl2 beside Debian’s engine and /usr/games/nexuiz-gl2. The one game on it is Nexuiz Classic; built, not yet installed on the PS3.

Big-endian: DarkPlaces swaps through LittleLong and friends (mem_bigendian at run time) and Debian builds its successor on s390x. Under qemu-user the dedicated server loaded aggressor from the real Nexuiz data (1222 faces, 386 clusters, progs.dat, csprogs.dat, 206 entities, “Server spawned”) and ran two minutes without a crash: file loading and QuakeC are checked, not the renderer, the sound or the client.