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Hacky new site preview

Spirit — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:52:08 +0000

It needs a lot of polishing and some things are missing. Will be another week or two.

Playing through the Quake Pre-Release

Spirit — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:25 +0000

+----------------------------------------+ | Quake PRE-RELEASE | | Tuesday, June 11th, 1996 | | Copyright (C) 1996 id Software, inc. | +----------------------------------------+ | Operating Instructions | | by John Romero | +----------------------------------------+
IMPORTANT NOTE: This document is a shabbed-up version of the QTEST1 document that i wrote months ago. It may suck.
This is our first severely limited pre-release, not intended for the general public. If you received this game from a member of id Software, then you are supposed to have it, otherwise, you are in possession of something which is not yours. You Are Bad.

I found this beta version of Quake floating around. This should be a much longer and detailed post but there are other things to do. There are many little and some big differences. There also is a slighty older version around, differences might only be cosmetic (the readme differs a tiny bit).

Anyways, for your enjoyment (ok, mostly mine) I played through this and recorded it. http://www.archive.org/details/QuakeBetaPlaythrough

Tinkering, errors inbound

Spirit — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:24:27 +0000

Because I just switched the site over to PHP 5.3 (from 5.2) there might be errors around. So far I noticed the engines/tools/wads listings did spit out many deprecation warnings, I hid those… If you encounter any errors, please report them.

Why, you ask? I am working on a database driven version of the reviews. Finally… There will be tagging, rudimentary user ratings and the possibility of a proper search function. Any other things I should consider? I want to refrain from adding user accounts. It would be great for some features but too much work.

edit: I want to reduce the rating scale from 1-5 to 3 values. Something along the lines of “Should you play it?” -> “Yes”, “Probably”, “Probably not”. Needs better words of course. Any objections?

edit2: Right, all the description pages are broken because of the stupid comment script. Change the .html in the url to .xml and all should be fine for the time being.

More Quake sketches by John Romero

Spirit — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:13:41 +0000

John Romero has not only got a new domain and website, he also uploaded some more old sketches from Quake development. Or more specifically his jrbase1 map. You can find them in this gallery, currently on page 2. To get the “real” images you have to click on “original” in that wobbly overlay once you hover the image (they should make that a rotating swirly cube with fire effects…). I wish there will be sketches from the monsters some day.

Your favourite map in 2009!

Spirit — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:14:34 +0000

Congratulations to than. His map Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties (But They Do Carry Shotguns) was deemed the best release of the past year by the about 70 people who voted.

Time to replay this gem!