So maybe I'm behind the times, as would be suggested by the latest release of Jake 2 (May 8, 2006), but this is the first I'd heard of it, and I was pleasantly surprised. Anyway, I thought it was cool.

So I downloaded the installer, dusted off my old Quake 2 disc and gave it a whirl. Everything ran smoothly (graphics were 100% smooth for me) except sound was not working.

I am running Kubuntu 8.04 currently. I was getting the error "open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy". After a bit of Googling it seems artsd has a hold on OpenAL, the sound library that Jake 2 was using. So I ran the following command to kill the arts daemon:

sudo killall artsd

After running that command I executed Jake 2 again and all was well with sound. I was brought back to 1998 and ended up having a 2 hour distraction on my hands ;) As a Java developer myself, I thought this was a pretty cool example of the flexibility of Java. FRAG ON!