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Article #75306Re: A few questions about glQuake in Windows XP...
From: McGrandpa
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:10
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:10
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"Matthew Vaughan" <matt-no-spam-109@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:R4Maf.2130$te3.33926@typhoon.sonic.net... > "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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