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Re: A few questions about glQuake in Windows XP...

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From: McGrandpa
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:10
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"Matthew Vaughan" <matt-no-spam-109@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9702F36362812wbmclexcitecom@65.24.3.143...
>>
>> What site? I'd like to bind some commands. I also need to find - if stil
>> out there - a quakeworld server or two. I d/led gamespy arcade and it
>> seems to indicate that there may be some activity but very infrequently.
>> No one was in a QW server when I booted in.
>
> There was a great site called quakeworld.nu that had become the center of 
> online Quake activity (mostly Euro-based, but not entirely). This was 
> where you'd find out about the tournaments still taking place (again, 
> mostly in Europe), there were forums, and they hosted, among other things, 
> a great download for Quake called eQuake, which consisted of FuhQuake 
> (definitely the dominant version of QuakeWorld these days), The All-Seeing 
> Eye (the generally preferred alternative to GameSpy), some of the most 
> common Quake levels for online play and many useful utilities. 
> Unfortunately it is down at the moment after the server got hacked. There 
> was talk a couple of months back about it being ready to come up again, 
> but I think it got hacked again and will be a while before it's available 
> again (if ever). :(
>
> eQuake is also available from ftp://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/equake/
>
> George M. already posted a link to FuhQuake - if you want to play 
> QuakeWorld online you should definitely be using FuhQuake. I think some of 
> the competitions may actually require it. (You can also play single player 
> with it.) OK, since I think this one is so important, here it is again: 
> http://www.fuhquake.net/ But if you download eQuake, you won't need it 
> separately. (BTW, I play FuhQuake with a very basic, standard QW 
> appearance, rather than all the fancy new graphics.)
>
> There are also some forums at http://www.quakeworld.us/forum/ that may be 
> helpful (including one devoted to Configs/Scripting)
>
> There's also one at Besmella-Quake: http://www.besmella-quake.com/forum/
>
> Also check out http://qw.fragzone.se/
>
> And for the latest demos (of various games), go to 
> http://www.challenge-tv.com/ (QW demos are still the most popular, though 
> most these days are actually .mvd - multi-view server-recorded demos 
> playable on modern clients like FuhQuake, that allow you to switch between 
> all views.)
>
> Well that should get you started on the modern world of Quake.
>
not a one of these has the full feel of Quake/Quakeworld but GLQuake. 
GLQuake runs fine on my P4 and AMD64 rigs, both with nvidia cards.  If he 
gets into eQuake/FUHQuake he will have to use completely different commands 
and scripts.
McG. 
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