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July 31st

• Quakeworld's Quake C Semi-Contest
  From Quakeworld maintainer Jason Springer:
  "Quakeworld is hosting a QuakeC contest. There are many details there. A basic overview is that I am looking for an awesome DM quake.exe file. With added features of edited weapons, combining 2 weapons to one button like in DOOM, having corpses not disappear. Being able to destroy (gib) dead bodies (corpses). And more. Visit Quakeworld for more details."

July 30th

• Deathmatch 3 Quake C Patch
  From Avatar (Mackey McCandlish):
  "I added another deathmatch (3), to the existing deathmatch 1 and 2 modes, that I'd like all you running servers to take a look at or try on your servers. It combines the first two modes: Makes the guns stay there like in deathmatch 2 so all the weapons are available to all players, and it makes the ammo and health respawn like in deathmatch 1 so you don't have immediate ammo shortages. It also makes the armor and powerups take a little longer to respawn." At the Avatar's Abode.

  QuakeC Specification Draft Out
  Here is the first QuakeC Specification Draft by Olivier Montanuy.

July 29th

• More Quake C
  There's and effort underway to create an online Quake C manual. If you want to contribute, or just check out what they're up to, take a look at the Quake C Manual Project.

  Hope you like the new look to these pages. Thanks Devicer for the great logo.

July 28th

• The QDP Needs You (maybe)
  The Quake Documentation Project is a collection of documents about technical issues related to Quake, e.g. installation, interfaces, configuration, developing tools, and the technical background needed for map editing and QuakeC programming. A few good docs out there have been contributed already. The QDP is partly inspired by the Linux Documentation Project and the Linux-HOWTO's. If you have written, or are in the process of writing, a document that would fit nicely, please contact b.

  Quake C's Busting Out All Over
  With the release of Quake C, the fun should just be starting. Check out the Quake C page on Quake News, and the Quake C Code Archive.

  Stomped Reveals All
  All of the registered games secrets are exposed on Stomped's Tips Page.

July 26th

• John Cash sheds light on Win95 TCP/IP Quake Woes
  id programmer John Cash made the following points about problems reported with TCP/IP connections under Windows 95:

  "It's due to all the convoluted crap that has to be done to let a DOS app use the Win95 TCP/IP stack. It works great for some people, some get the initial lag and then it clears up, and others never seem to be able to get a decent connection. The real solution, the one we're working on, is a native win32 (Win95/NT) version of Quake. We've got two servers up running NT with a version of this code (dedicated server only); feel free to try them out. We plan to release the dedicated server only version Real Soon Now. A full Quake95 will be a while longer."

  Relief for Map Compatibility Problems
  Grindking (of the late, lamented Grindking's Quake Page) sent me an email this morning:
  "Well, You said that you were upset that you could not play the Quake levels with the new versions or the registered. Well, FYI, [Drizzt] of #quake and #quakeED released a conveter.. See, all you really have to do is edit it with a hex editor and change the first line from '28' to '29' but, this program is a lot easier to do.. I have included it in here, so enjoy!" bspup.zip (13 KB) Thanks, Grindking.

  Meanwhile updated maps are showing up already on the Mecca's Levels Page.

  Jumped the Gun
  The maps on the Mecca are not useable with version 1.01. Funny wrote saying:
  "Ya, I've found out. ID made a new version of QBSP, LIGHT, and VIS for Quake Registered. The just released the source code today so I should hopefully have some new versions for the Registered version made up by tomorrow. Except, I'm leaving for the weekend tomorrow. Ughh.. Well, hopefully someone will release a compiled version of the source code today sometime."

  I'll post an update when I know the maps have been remade, but, ughh... I'll be away over the weekend too. My last update till Sunday night will probably be this evening...

July 25th

• Quake C Released
  True to their word, hot on the heels of releasing the registered Quake, id has also released the Quake C source and compiler. They can be downloaded from id's FTP Site. For you literate types, here's the text file (qcc.txt).

July 24th

• What's id Working on Now?
  In an email today, John Cash said the following: "latency: we are working on newer stuff to help overcome the problems with latency over the internet and 1 on 1 modem games. No timeframe right now, but it is looking very good so far."

  "win32 (95/NT) versions: working on them. Look for a special dedicated server only version Real Soon Now (unless Carmack released it while I was out of town). This version runs as a win32 console app under Win95 and/or NT. NT seems to be best, but the 95 version is better than the q95.bat stuff."

  Ready for new levels yet?
  The Mecca has got them on their Quake Levels page. According to Funny, "We currently have 10 and are looking to add at least 2 more tomorrow and more everyday after that. The best ones so far have been Shake2* and House**." *(92 KB) **(291 KB)

  What Was I Thinking?
  I added a couple of links that should've been here a while ago: The Quake RC Archive (no it has nothing to do with soda, it's aliases and config file stuff), and sCary's Quakeholio, if not for the name alone, for the fact that it's the world's finest (onliest?) collection of Quake deathmatch demos around.

  Okay, I'm off to play a little registered Quake... first a two second review of the two seconds I checked it out: the music works, and grunts with laser rifles are cool... later ;-)

July 23rd

• Patch to 1.01 Out
  The patch to update version 1.0 to 1.01 is finally available on id's FTP site (for the record, soon was eleven days). Many people have, in fact, received their registered CD's today (I wish I could say I was one of them).

July 22nd

• Tomorrow's the day...
  that Quake might be showing up in your mailbox. To pass the time PCME has what they claim is the first review of the full registered Quake. WARNING: The first graphic is a screenshot of something I never saw in the shareware; I think it's a boss. If you like to be surprised about these things, then you probably want to skip it (or turn off graphic loading on your browser).

  They're also running a "Quake Today and Quake Tomorrow" contest where "One lucky grand prize winner will receive a special signed copy of the full registered version of Quake. Additionally, ten runners up will each receive a normal registered copy of Quake."

  Doesn't say who signed it...

July 19th

• The registered Quake will ship on Monday, July 22.
  The latest update from Mike Wilson of id Software:

• "...the full version of quake will be shipping to our direct order customers on monday! get ready to see a bunch of servers running episodes 2, 3, and 4. the retail street date for the shareware cd with the full version encrypted is August 30.

  the full version that we ship direct is not encrypted, and costs $45 at 1800idgames. there is also a $5 shipping charge, which we use to send the orders our airborne express next-afternoon delivery.

  ...the orders shipping out on monday will be those placed between June 22 (upload) and July 1. all other orders, whether on july 1 or july 30, will go out on August 1. international orders should also realize that they will not get overnight delivery... as described in order.txt, their orders will go out via u.s. mail, and will likely take 10-14 days."

  No news is bad news
  Still no 1.01 patch, you still need to download the whole file to play over the modem.

July 16th

• Aftershock Shuts Down.
  I'm by no means alone in saying thanks for all the hard work, Joost.

July 12th

• That was prompt.
  Quake shareware 1.01 is up on id's ftp site. A patch is not available yet (it's another full download), but Romero said "soon."

July 12th

• Oooops!
  A bug snuck into the 1.0 release that prevents Quake from being able to initialize modems. Until a fix is released, the only way to play a modem game is by connecting before entering the game (just like with qtest). Regarding the bug, according to id "it'll be fixed promptly."

July 5th

• Just the FAQs...
  Toby Goldstone posted an "Unofficial Quake FAQ" to USENET's rec.games.computer.quake.announce. Or here's Tom Wheeley's latest Mini-FAQ.

  Linux Quake Released
  Dave Taylor's eagerly awaited Linux port of Quake 0.91 (303 KB) has been released, and can be found on LEK Internet Services's FTP site.