Quake 3 on Mac OS X

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on November 24, 2005 at 6:03 pm

This is a short description on how to get Quake 3 Arena running on Mac OS X, using a retail PC Quake 3 Arena CD-ROM.

  1. Download the Quake3-132-AltivecTest2.pkg.sit.
  2. Using StuffIt Expander, decompress the point release. A package file will be placed on the desktop.
  3. Double-click the package file, and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the point release installation.
  4. Open the Quake III Arena CD.
  5. Open the Quake3 folder.
  6. Open the BaseQ3 folder.
  7. Copy the PAK0.PK3 file from the CD to the BaseQ3 folder on your hard drive.

These simple steps are surprisingly difficult to find on the Internet.

7 Comments »

  1. Thanks so much for posting these steps! We are trying to get Q3 running on my friend’s Mac and my Ubuntu laptop. It was wonderful to find this!

    Comment by Keith and Dustin — December 2, 2006 @ 2:06 am

  2. I just got a Macbook Pro 2 days ago and was relieved to find these instructions. Thanks for posting these and helping us old school game addicts continue our addiction.

    Comment by Jason — January 27, 2007 @ 12:02 am

  3. So wait, let me get this straight. You mean you have a PC CD version of Quake 3 Arena and you can read it and copy the .pak files in Mac OS X and then play in Mac OS X?

    I’m just confirming, because I didn’t think they had an Apple version of Quake 3 and I also want to make sure you’re not talking about booting your Mac in Windows XP and playing it.

    Thanks,
    Dizzy

    Comment by Dizzy — February 8, 2007 @ 11:49 am

  4. Dizzy, yes that is correct. You use the PC CD version of Quake 3 Arena for the .pak files to play on Mac OS X.

    Comment by Titus Barik — February 10, 2007 @ 7:42 pm

  5. OMG, thanks for this post! Now I can enjoy the fruits of Q3 on the Mac as well.

    Comment by Heaty — March 4, 2007 @ 7:27 pm

  6. They did make a Mac version of it. I bought the Gold edition way back when, which came with a Hybrid disc which has both versions on it. Since then, I had to have my disc exchanged because of scratches, and the copy I got back was not said hybrid disc. Thanks for these instructions!

    Comment by mstrswrd06 — November 29, 2007 @ 10:03 am

  7. Wonderful, thank you very much! The first thing I wanted to do when I received this MAC today was to play Quake 3 on it.

    Comment by LiX — September 18, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

titus@barik.net | The Weblog of Titus Barik