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Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by ljm »

mentos wrote: post #10
mmh0000 wrote: post #2

Oh man! Memories. Back in 1999, Quake II was the game I played (like, literally the only one). I sunk so much time in QII and I wrote my very first code building a Mod. I think it's fair to say, Quake II turned me from a computer user into a computer programmer. And set the course for my entire adult life and career. From my original mod, I learned how to calculate vectors, learn an existing code base, integrate auto…

Tribes 2 was my first taste of modding, the game holds a super special place in my heart too. Then came Ultima Online emulators Sphere and RunUO that turned me from a gamer into a programmer too.

Tribes 2 and Unreal Tourney were childhood faves.. when I played something other than CS 1.6

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by mcronce »

mentos wrote: post #10
mmh0000 wrote: post #2

Oh man! Memories. Back in 1999, Quake II was the game I played (like, literally the only one). I sunk so much time in QII and I wrote my very first code building a Mod. I think it's fair to say, Quake II turned me from a computer user into a computer programmer. And set the course for my entire adult life and career. From my original mod, I learned how to calculate vectors, learn an existing code base, integrate auto…

Tribes 2 was my first taste of modding, the game holds a super special place in my heart too. Then came Ultima Online emulators Sphere and RunUO that turned me from a gamer into a programmer too.

Rune was mine. A buddy and I got into level design, and I got into modding along with it

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by johnwalkr »

progmetaldev wrote: post #39
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Sonic Mayhem did QII. NIN did Quake I (or maybe just Trent). I remember the ammo boxes for the nailgun had the NIN logo.

If you use Spotify, you can actually find the Quake I soundtrack under Nine Inch Nails. A real blast from the past. Quake was my first FPS with multiplayer, and I hogged the only telephone line my family had, so I could play mods like capture the flag, including the grappling hook. This was also around the time I started exploring Linux with Slackware, and dialing into my local university professor's Linux server to…

You can still buy Q1 soundtrack on vinyl.

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by ovao »

akamaka wrote: post #34

If I wanted to read the source code of just one version of Quake, to learn from it, which do you think would be the most interesting?

The question would be “by what dimension of interesting”?

Quake 3’s source is pretty interesting from the perspective of id just transitioning from C to C++, and famously has an implementation of fast inverse square root. It’s also a pretty clean codebase overall with a reasonably modern engine architecture.

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by ljm »

My first thought is - what will the modders do.

I watched some videos about MyHouse.wad (a Doom 2 level/mod that became popular with the indie horror crowd), and it's seriously impressive.

I wonder what happens in the context of Quake, after seeing the community take Doom to places Carmack could never have imagined.

I'm a lot more interested in how people mess with the rules of the game without necessarily breaking them, leading to some super subversive storytelling, rather than just porting the code onto a smart fridge or some shit.

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by npunt »

xaduha wrote: post #3

Quake II soundtrack is still in some sort of copyright limbo. It's easy enough to find on Youtube, but it's not on streaming services as far as I know. EDIT: maybe it's getting sorted out, there's even a fricking vinyl release https://www.lacedrecords.com/products/quake-2-limited-editio...

Yeah Sascha (Sonic Mayhem) says digital may come: “I think digital outlets will follow. Not 100% tho.”

https://twitter.com/sonicmayhem/status/1689688600362037249

Re: Source code for Quake 2 rerelease

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Post by c-hendricks »

johnwalkr wrote: post #43
progmetaldev wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use Spotify, you can actually find the Quake I soundtrack under Nine Inch Nails. A real blast from the past. Quake was my first FPS with multiplayer, and I hogged the only telephone line my family had, so I could play mods like capture the flag, including the grappling hook. This was also around the time I started exploring Linux with Slackware, and dialing into my local university professor's Linux server to…

You can still buy Q1 soundtrack on vinyl.

It's beautiful. It's a double LP but only takes up 3 sides.

The remaining side has audio code from the game etched into it.

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