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Houston?  Quake classic?  LAN party?!?  Ooooh!   I'm in Houston!  GOT
Quake!  GOT gigabit LAN!  :-P
McGrandpa [AGQx]

fragging gorilla wrote:
> Where is the old school fragfest going to be at?  Around Houston
> maybe?
>
> gorilla
>
>
> Myrmidon wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> It's been a long long time since I've played Q1 and I'm looking
>> for pointers to web sites with the updated versions of the old Quake
>> 1 engine if there's some reasonable differences and folks have a
>> strong preference for one particular flavor of the updated stuff.
>> I'm asking as I'm looking at hosting an 'old school' LAN party in
>> the near future and would like some pointers from folks in the know
>> about the current state of things in Q1.  It's been so long I'm not
>> sure if there'll be problems with trying to run Q1 on a much newer
>> system - like will the game run so fast it's unplayable, etc?  (I
>> can remember getting a 'screaming' Pentium 133 and a 4 meg Dimond
>> Monster video card just to play Q1.)
>>
>> Also - I long ago lost my collection of Q1 maps - is there
>> anyplace that has a decent archive? (I miss Stomped.com - they had
>> some damn cool maps and mods.)  In fact pretty much all the old map
>> review sites (like Talon's) I knew are long gone.   Any suggestions
>> and pointers in this area will also be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Myrmidon