Out of the Blue

Happy birthday QUAKE, as id Software's seminal first-person shooter was first released 22 years ago today. The fact that most of my junk is in storage right now means I don't have access to my disks to play this a bit. I thought this would thwart my plans to celebrate. Then I saw that the Steam summer sale offered the chance to add the original QUAKE trilogy to my Steam library for a nominal cost, so that solved that problem. I fooled around with this and see that it was easy enough to launch GLQUAKE, so I'm going to mess around with video settings later and kill me a few Strogg.

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Re: Bought the original Q1's retail CD (no box) for 99 cents, but...
Jun 25, 2018, 09:11
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Re: Bought the original Q1's retail CD (no box) for 99 cents, but... Jun 25, 2018, 09:11
Jun 25, 2018, 09:11
 
The Q1 cd also had other unlockable games such as Heretic on it, I believe you can get the unlock code on the internet. However I'd just buy the games from GoG or Steam for convenience. The cd is good for the music track though, can rip it to harddrive and source ports will play them.

Sure wish Steam would include source ports options, so when you press play it'll ask which source port you want to play the game with.
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Bought the original Q1's retail CD (no box) for 99 cents, but...
Jun 25, 2018, 07:16
Ant
 
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Bought the original Q1's retail CD (no box) for 99 cents, but... Jun 25, 2018, 07:16
Jun 25, 2018, 07:16
 Ant
 
From a local estate sale a few months ago. However, I cannot figure how to unlock it after installing it in FreeDOS in VirtualBox. I also noticed there are other id Software games on it. Am I missing something?
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 23, 2018, 14:39
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 23, 2018, 14:39
Jun 23, 2018, 14:39
 
YourNick wrote on Jun 23, 2018, 14:05:
Sure thing, this should work for any Quake client (place in /id1/autoexec.cfg)
m_yaw 0.022
m_pitch 0.022
alias zoom120 "fov 120; sensitivity 16;alias zoomin zoom060;alias zoomout zoom120"
alias zoom060 "fov 60; sensitivity 8;alias zoomin zoom030;alias zoomout zoom120"
alias zoom030 "fov 30; sensitivity 4;alias zoomin zoom015;alias zoomout zoom060"
alias zoom015 "fov 15; sensitivity 2;alias zoomin zoom015;alias zoomout zoom030"
zoom120

bind mwheelup zoomin
bind mwheeldown zoomout

Works great. I also made one just like it for Quake 1&2 & GZDoom.
Oh nice. Thanks!
"I expect death to be nothingness and by removing from me all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." Isaac Asimov
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 23, 2018, 14:05
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 23, 2018, 14:05
Jun 23, 2018, 14:05
 
Sure thing, this should work for any Quake client (place in /id1/autoexec.cfg)
m_yaw 0.022
m_pitch 0.022
alias zoom120 "fov 120; sensitivity 16;alias zoomin zoom060;alias zoomout zoom120"
alias zoom060 "fov 60; sensitivity 8;alias zoomin zoom030;alias zoomout zoom120"
alias zoom030 "fov 30; sensitivity 4;alias zoomin zoom015;alias zoomout zoom060"
alias zoom015 "fov 15; sensitivity 2;alias zoomin zoom015;alias zoomout zoom030"
zoom120

bind mwheelup zoomin
bind mwheeldown zoomout

Works great. I also made one just like it for Quake 1&2 & GZDoom.
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Jun 23, 2018, 13:23
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 23, 2018, 13:23
Jun 23, 2018, 13:23
 
YourNick wrote on Jun 23, 2018, 08:22:
If you use QuakeSpasm, to improve the gameplay experience try putting these into id1/autoexec.cfg

host_maxfps 160
gl_triplebuffer 1

With host_maxfps 160 you get smooth motion, but not so high that it breaks any physics. I always play Quake1 now in 4K. I've also make a zoom script to zoom with the mousewheel.
Can you share your zoom script, that sounds tasty.

And thanks for the maxfps and triplebuffer tips.

"I expect death to be nothingness and by removing from me all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." Isaac Asimov
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 23, 2018, 08:22
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 23, 2018, 08:22
Jun 23, 2018, 08:22
 
If you use QuakeSpasm, to improve the gameplay experience try putting these into id1/autoexec.cfg

host_maxfps 160
gl_triplebuffer 1

With host_maxfps 160 you get smooth motion, but not so high that it breaks any physics. I always play Quake1 now in 4K. I've also make a zoom script to zoom with the mousewheel.
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Jun 22, 2018, 21:55
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 21:55
Jun 22, 2018, 21:55
 
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 21:10:
RedEye9 wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 19:32:
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 17:30:
Thanks! Looks pretty great.
I bet you're a cruel taskmaster and make the hobbits run nvidia while you use amd gpu's.

Almost true. In fact, the orcs have to run NVidia, while I use AMD. The goblins take food and drink orders, and the hobbits have trays strapped to their heads and are used as mobile tables.

The hobbits get a day off every other month, during which they are allowed to debug all the messed up Ubisoft games on the various systems. I know, that last part is particularly cruel.

morgoth must've really done a number on you way back when. heartless bastard XD
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 21:10
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 21:10
Jun 22, 2018, 21:10
 
RedEye9 wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 19:32:
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 17:30:
Thanks! Looks pretty great.
I bet you're a cruel taskmaster and make the hobbits run nvidia while you use amd gpu's.

Almost true. In fact, the orcs have to run NVidia, while I use AMD. The goblins take food and drink orders, and the hobbits have trays strapped to their heads and are used as mobile tables.

The hobbits get a day off every other month, during which they are allowed to debug all the messed up Ubisoft games on the various systems. I know, that last part is particularly cruel.
Kittens!
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 19:32
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 19:32
Jun 22, 2018, 19:32
 
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 17:30:
Thanks! Looks pretty great.
I bet you're a cruel taskmaster and make the hobbits run nvidia while you use amd gpu's.
"I expect death to be nothingness and by removing from me all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." Isaac Asimov
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Jun 22, 2018, 19:30
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 19:30
Jun 22, 2018, 19:30
 
Osc8r wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 17:56:
~
timedemo demo1

Amen.
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 17:56
Osc8r
 
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 17:56
Jun 22, 2018, 17:56
 Osc8r
 
~
timedemo demo1
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 17:30
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 17:30
Jun 22, 2018, 17:30
 
RedEye9 wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 11:12:
Seriously consider the Quake HD Remix by Nick Wride.
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/12/17/played_quake_lately/1

EDIT
How sad is this?
https://quakehdremix.blogspot.com
/snip
IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR NVIDIA GPU OWNERS:
An important message for owners of Nvidia GPUs. The last few sets of Nvidia Display drivers have broken the engine's graphics when shadow mapping is enabled (soft shadows) causing black square glitches to appear all over the screen. Shadow mapping has to be disabled to remove these glitches, however, it makes the game even more taxing as shadow mapping made the game run faster, but Nvidia doesn't seem to care and have not addressed this issue in any subsequent driver updates. It's highly likely that a fix may never arise. ... Quake HD Remix has become unplayable for me.
/snip

Thanks! Looks pretty great.
Kittens!
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 17:20
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 17:20
Jun 22, 2018, 17:20
 
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 17:11:
Beamer wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 14:16:
As an aside, I caught Jurassic World: Revenge of the Fallen last night. I'd say it was better than Jurassic World (a movie that was passable the first viewing but got infinitely worse each additional - it was a terrible film), but a worse Jurassic Park movie. It felt small and closed, rather than large and epic. It had nothing to say, not that Jurassic World did. It was a somewhat effective, but far too long, horror movie.

Some points:
  • For reasons I don't understand, the main theme is operatic. Actual opera singing. It made no sense, and was so out of place. So much of the music was so out of place. It didn't understand the type of movie
  • Everyone is dumb. Everyone. Apparently only Jeff Goldblum remembers that the dinosaurs keep getting loose and killing everyone. No, they're cute and snuggly and let's love them forever!
  • The movie does try to make them cute and snuggly. At times
  • Speaking of Jeff Goldblum, he's shoe-horned in. Literally. One scene, cut in half. And an afterthought. How do you know it's an afterthought? The opening scene ends with a door half open. It then cuts to the Goldblum scene. It then cuts to a scene with Dallas Howard pushing through a half open door. Clearly those two doors were supposed to be cut together, but ended split, and ineffective for it
  • Speaking of making dinosaurs cuddly, the velociraptor gets one of those slow-motion dives away from an explosion that action heroes got a ton of in the 80s, like Bruce Willis. I laughed way too hard at the movie
  • Once again, there's a child, but this one isn't as annoying, even if her timeline is confusing
  • One of the big villains dies in the dumbest way possible, with something hardly set up
  • This is one of those movies where a giant predator attacks two helpless prey, gets attacked by another giant predator, and rather than focus on the new threat, keeps going after the prey
  • This movie still thinks dinosaurs are endless eating machines and will kill and eat as many humans as they can
  • This is a movie where people can run through a literal maze that no other human in their right mind would even think of going through, then turn around and see their friend, who they'd been separated from, somehow tracked them through it like it was nothing
  • Finally, there is another stupid callout to the end of JP, when the T-Rex saved the humans and roared. It was kind of cute when JW did it. But, c'mon, again? Maybe it would have worked had it happened three or four times in the film, like a gag, but instead it's just cheap and dumb

Bad JP movie, decent horror movie (if an hour too long), mostly vapid. No one will be doing repeat viewings of this like with JP. You see it once, and nothing to go back to. No wonder, just monsters.

Did you expect anything more? at this point it's just a really shitty hollywood milk fest.. since Jurrasic Park is #28 on all time highest grossing, Jurassic world is currently #5.. they're trying to MILK MILK MILK.

People are dumb, people enjoy dumb movies. I watch movies based on how they are supposed to be watched (Funny stupid movies are supposed to be funny stupid.. like why argue logic and realism in "CRANK" for example). So all jurassic movies are meant to be a serious drama.. the first one did it really well, the rest have all been comedy of errors and stupidity. If you made a theme park of giant dinosaurs, you wouldn't have hilariously bad containment plans for example. Things like opening the most giant of gates to see if the dinosaur is still in there.. LOL.

Anyways, the point is.. hollywood will keep making horrible movies as long as people keep paying to go see them.

Expected nothing more. It was free, so I went.
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Jun 22, 2018, 17:11
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 17:11
Jun 22, 2018, 17:11
 
Beamer wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 14:16:
As an aside, I caught Jurassic World: Revenge of the Fallen last night. I'd say it was better than Jurassic World (a movie that was passable the first viewing but got infinitely worse each additional - it was a terrible film), but a worse Jurassic Park movie. It felt small and closed, rather than large and epic. It had nothing to say, not that Jurassic World did. It was a somewhat effective, but far too long, horror movie.

Some points:
  • For reasons I don't understand, the main theme is operatic. Actual opera singing. It made no sense, and was so out of place. So much of the music was so out of place. It didn't understand the type of movie
  • Everyone is dumb. Everyone. Apparently only Jeff Goldblum remembers that the dinosaurs keep getting loose and killing everyone. No, they're cute and snuggly and let's love them forever!
  • The movie does try to make them cute and snuggly. At times
  • Speaking of Jeff Goldblum, he's shoe-horned in. Literally. One scene, cut in half. And an afterthought. How do you know it's an afterthought? The opening scene ends with a door half open. It then cuts to the Goldblum scene. It then cuts to a scene with Dallas Howard pushing through a half open door. Clearly those two doors were supposed to be cut together, but ended split, and ineffective for it
  • Speaking of making dinosaurs cuddly, the velociraptor gets one of those slow-motion dives away from an explosion that action heroes got a ton of in the 80s, like Bruce Willis. I laughed way too hard at the movie
  • Once again, there's a child, but this one isn't as annoying, even if her timeline is confusing
  • One of the big villains dies in the dumbest way possible, with something hardly set up
  • This is one of those movies where a giant predator attacks two helpless prey, gets attacked by another giant predator, and rather than focus on the new threat, keeps going after the prey
  • This movie still thinks dinosaurs are endless eating machines and will kill and eat as many humans as they can
  • This is a movie where people can run through a literal maze that no other human in their right mind would even think of going through, then turn around and see their friend, who they'd been separated from, somehow tracked them through it like it was nothing
  • Finally, there is another stupid callout to the end of JP, when the T-Rex saved the humans and roared. It was kind of cute when JW did it. But, c'mon, again? Maybe it would have worked had it happened three or four times in the film, like a gag, but instead it's just cheap and dumb

Bad JP movie, decent horror movie (if an hour too long), mostly vapid. No one will be doing repeat viewings of this like with JP. You see it once, and nothing to go back to. No wonder, just monsters.

Did you expect anything more? at this point it's just a really shitty hollywood milk fest.. since Jurrasic Park is #28 on all time highest grossing, Jurassic world is currently #5.. they're trying to MILK MILK MILK.

People are dumb, people enjoy dumb movies. I watch movies based on how they are supposed to be watched (Funny stupid movies are supposed to be funny stupid.. like why argue logic and realism in "CRANK" for example). So all jurassic movies are meant to be a serious drama.. the first one did it really well, the rest have all been comedy of errors and stupidity. If you made a theme park of giant dinosaurs, you wouldn't have hilariously bad containment plans for example. Things like opening the most giant of gates to see if the dinosaur is still in there.. LOL.

Anyways, the point is.. hollywood will keep making horrible movies as long as people keep paying to go see them.
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 16:10
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 16:10
Jun 22, 2018, 16:10
 
Topaz wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 13:53:
I highly recommend QuakeSpasm, a version of Quake that runs well on modern machines, supporting high-resolution monitors, colored lighting, high quality music support, etc.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/quakespasm/
http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Quakespasm
https://quakewiki.org/wiki/QuakeSpasm
I second this! Just recently myself reinstalled Quake 1 to play through again after many a year had passed since... uh... my father... yeah I had watched my father play it 22 years ago because I was so young *cough* Anyway, QuakeSpasm is a good way to go.
With a damaged Panzer still hunting 'The Haunted Tank' and Gus out of ammo, Jeb knew there was only one option, "Slim, RAM!"
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 16:05
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Jun 22, 2018, 16:05
 
Mordecai Walfish"
They're even talking about adding instagib, and yet no ctf. Fucking bizarro world. Would love to see rocket arena come back too.

They sent out a survey yesterday one of the questions was what other types of game varieties would you like to see CTF was one, needless to say it got ticked.
Um .. Behind you...
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 14:46
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Jun 22, 2018, 14:46
 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jurassic_world_fallen_kingdom/
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom/critic-reviews
ouch
cinemascore didn't even bother

"I expect death to be nothingness and by removing from me all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." Isaac Asimov
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 14:16
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 14:16
Jun 22, 2018, 14:16
 
As an aside, I caught Jurassic World: Revenge of the Fallen last night. I'd say it was better than Jurassic World (a movie that was passable the first viewing but got infinitely worse each additional - it was a terrible film), but a worse Jurassic Park movie. It felt small and closed, rather than large and epic. It had nothing to say, not that Jurassic World did. It was a somewhat effective, but far too long, horror movie.

Some points:
  • For reasons I don't understand, the main theme is operatic. Actual opera singing. It made no sense, and was so out of place. So much of the music was so out of place. It didn't understand the type of movie
  • Everyone is dumb. Everyone. Apparently only Jeff Goldblum remembers that the dinosaurs keep getting loose and killing everyone. No, they're cute and snuggly and let's love them forever!
  • The movie does try to make them cute and snuggly. At times
  • Speaking of Jeff Goldblum, he's shoe-horned in. Literally. One scene, cut in half. And an afterthought. How do you know it's an afterthought? The opening scene ends with a door half open. It then cuts to the Goldblum scene. It then cuts to a scene with Dallas Howard pushing through a half open door. Clearly those two doors were supposed to be cut together, but ended split, and ineffective for it
  • Speaking of making dinosaurs cuddly, the velociraptor gets one of those slow-motion dives away from an explosion that action heroes got a ton of in the 80s, like Bruce Willis. I laughed way too hard at the movie
  • Once again, there's a child, but this one isn't as annoying, even if her timeline is confusing
  • One of the big villains dies in the dumbest way possible, with something hardly set up
  • This is one of those movies where a giant predator attacks two helpless prey, gets attacked by another giant predator, and rather than focus on the new threat, keeps going after the prey
  • This movie still thinks dinosaurs are endless eating machines and will kill and eat as many humans as they can
  • This is a movie where people can run through a literal maze that no other human in their right mind would even think of going through, then turn around and see their friend, who they'd been separated from, somehow tracked them through it like it was nothing
  • Finally, there is another stupid callout to the end of JP, when the T-Rex saved the humans and roared. It was kind of cute when JW did it. But, c'mon, again? Maybe it would have worked had it happened three or four times in the film, like a gag, but instead it's just cheap and dumb

Bad JP movie, decent horror movie (if an hour too long), mostly vapid. No one will be doing repeat viewings of this like with JP. You see it once, and nothing to go back to. No wonder, just monsters.
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Jun 22, 2018, 14:00
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 14:00
Jun 22, 2018, 14:00
 
Mordecai Walfish wrote on Jun 22, 2018, 13:39:
Unless you're playing Quake 2, you're not gonna be killing any strogg in single player

Blue confirmed as a fake gamer, like all people in game media!!!!!`!
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 22, 2018, 13:53
Topaz
 
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 22, 2018, 13:53
Jun 22, 2018, 13:53
 Topaz
 
I highly recommend QuakeSpasm, a version of Quake that runs well on modern machines, supporting high-resolution monitors, colored lighting, high quality music support, etc.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/quakespasm/
http://quake.wikia.com/wiki/Quakespasm
https://quakewiki.org/wiki/QuakeSpasm
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