Quake is 10

cyclomedia writes "Late on 22nd June 1996 Quake was uploaded to cdrom.com's archives in the form of 7 1.44MB floppy disk images. Though it wasn't until the 23rd that everyone realised (or at least, that's my excuse for being a day late with the news submission). Cue much aggravation on the newsgroups as eager downloaders experienced glorious 2 FPS gameplay."

10 years!

[uberjoe]

Insert Ob "My God, now I feel old" comment.

ah the memories

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a 486 Dx2/80 with a Diamond Stealth 64 2120
> video card and I get 6.2 fps in the start. While in Duke 3D, I get well
> over 30+ fps. Why is Quake so slow compared to Duke 3D?


Ahh... the last time anything besides Windows Vista got compared to Duke Nukem.

Re:2 FPS?

[Anonymous Coward]

There are some classic comments in there, that still ring true today.
 
...blah blah blah true 3d blah blah 2.5d blah blah Pentium blah blah id
are gods blah blah 3d realms suck blah duke has toliets, quake has true 3d
blah blah blah blah only id can code games blah blah blah i want to have sex
with john carmak blah blah blah upgrade blah blah blah only lamers have 486s
blah blah blah blah blah...

Your excuse

[aborchers]

(or at least, that's my excuse for being a day late with the news submission)

I thought it was because you were using that Procrastnatr calendar thingy...

Still have flashbacks ...

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I like to think of the original Quake as my own personal Vietnam

Re:Old schoolin'

[stupidfoo]

3.25" floppies? Crazy. Where'd you get those from?

Re:10 years!

[Professeur Shadoko]

As long as he does not claim that Doom has turned 10. When THAT happens, I'll feel really old.

88mph

[linvir]

I was about to post a reply in that thread, you know, to send a message back and boast about how good our computers are here in the future or something, but apparently [google.co.uk]...

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And I was gonna get so much cred with my 'amazing' Pentium III laptop... anyone know when Google will be implementing this feature?

Re:Anyone Remember...

[gauntlet420]

Indeed I do. Doom I and II, Final Doom, Quake, Heretic, Hexen and Wolf3d ... and the miracle of qcrack.exe...

3.25" floppies

[artemis67]

Basically, you had to buy some 3.5" floppies and then trim .25" off of one edge with the scissors before they would fit in the vending machine.

Re:Still have it...

[stratjakt]

Probably because about 8 people worldwide actually paid to unlock it. I know I didn't.

I warezeded it, so kudos to the real heroes: CLASS.

Re:The Size was incredible

[rblum]

Times haven't really changed - quake091.zip is still 9 MB in size.

Re:Happy Birthday!

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

Hmmm, sounds like the modern equivalent to 'brokeback mountain'

Descent.

[KDR_11k]

I grew up on Descent instead of Quake. Now I'm immune to motion sickness.

Re:Old schoolin'

[Mercano]

AOL used to send me 3.5" flopies in the mail all the time for me to reformat and use for whatever. Now all I get is read-only coasters. Sigh, can't get good swag anymore.

Quake beta

[Kedjoran]

Ah, Quake was a classic. My brothers had gotten their hands on the beta version of it before it had been released. The Twist? It had no enemies in it. Imagine how fast it became boring.

Re:Old schoolin'

[Doctor Memory]

Oh, metric floppies, yeah. 1.44 litres instead of the standard 1.2 quarts or something.

You /still/ have 486?

[ilyanep]

blah blah blah only lamers have 486s
blah blah blah blah blah...

Still have 486? Get a Pentium immediately!
You remind me of those people who complained
that DOOM was slow on their 386 when DOOM
came out the first time.

Wow I love reading old technical newsgroups...

Re:The Size was incredible

[identity0]

No, times have changed, it's now 9 Mebibytes in size.

Re:ah the memories

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a 486 Dx2/80 with a Diamond Stealth 64 2120 video card and I get 6.2 fps

Don't use a three year old S3 chipset video with a two year old Cyrix/AMD -- it is 1996 and Intel owns games.
That 80MHz machine is no better than an i486/33 which is barely a shade better than AMD's i386/40.
And Gateway2000 has had an under $2000 Pentium for 18 months now.
Go back to your two year old, 64 bit Atari Jaguar.

Re:Quake beta

[gh5046]

> Imagine how fast it became boring.

Probably about as fast Doom III became boring after its retail release.

Vivid memories of the music

[neltana]

If I remember correctly, it was either Quake or Quake II that played its music from the CD while you were playing. Of course, if you happened to have a different CD in there, it would play that music instead.

I vividly remember playing when my kid had left one of his CDs in there. I'd move into a some section of the map and it would suddenly trigger "Do You Want to Buy a Bunny" or something equally horrifying. It really added flavor to the game.

Even better was that it would repeat the song over and over until you left the section. I'm not really sure why I never took the CD out...I guess it gave me incentive to keep moving.

you damn fool

[Anonymous Coward]

thats like comparing one of those fractal ferns to a photograph of a forest. Dont be a damn fool. You bring us all down. Down, down into the mire...the mire of self loathing and pity, where dreams turn to sand and fall through your fingers like a goth experiencing the sun for the first time.

Re:3.25" floppies

[aquabat]

Don't trim the side with the write-protect tab.

Re:The Size was incredible

[NCraig]

1% of quake 1's filesize, and much better graphics too... It makes me wonder -- WTF are today's multi-gig games doing with all that space?

Umm... status bars?

life: 050
ammo: 096
weak ass hud: priceless