The GameSpy guys managed to scoop us on the DMC article and posted their own bit on the upcoming mod from Valve. It includes a few more screenshots.

(Reposting for the morning crowd) I must have rewritten this sentence a dozen times and I just don't know how else to put this eloquently. Valve Software's in-house internet mod support team has gotten permission from id Software to port Quake to Half-Life and they have done so. It's looking just about complete and will be released "very soon".

Well they didn't bring over the entire game. It's just deathmatch and only the 'classic' maps that were played so much when Quake was at the top of the heap. The maps that are included in DMC are nearly play and look identical to the originals. The maps that will be included in the first release are:

DM2 - Claustrophobopolis	[also a snapshot from original]
DM3 [2] - The Abandoned Base	[also a snapshot from original]
DM4 - The Bad Place	[also a snapshot from original]
DM6 - The Dark Zone	[also a snapshot from original]
E1M2 - Castle Of The Damned	[also a snapshot from original]

I must have rewritten this sentence a dozen times and I just don't know how else to put this eloquently. Valve Software's in-house internet mod support team has gotten permission from id Software to port Quake to Half-Life and they have done so. It's looking just about complete and will be released "very soon".

Well they didn't bring over the entire game. It's just deathmatch and only the 'classic' maps that were played so much when Quake was at the top of the heap. The maps that are included in DMC play and look nearly identical to the originals. The maps that will be included in the first release are:

DM2 - Claustrophobopolis	[also a snapshot from original]
DM3 [2] - The Abandoned Base	[also a snapshot from original]
DM4 - The Bad Place	[also a snapshot from original]
DM6 - The Dark Zone	[also a snapshot from original]
E1M2 - Castle Of The Damned	[also a snapshot from original]

Exclusive? Yeah well it looks like there was a little bit of miscommunication in the PR department at Valve.

Stomped is reporting about another budget game by 2015's Trainwreck Studios division. After Laser Arena comes CIA Operative, another Quake1 engine game. There's four screenshots of the game at Stomped as ewll.

Another CPL update, as the CPL 4-Year Anniversary event has been pushed back at the request of Canadian gamers (who had final examinations at the previous date). The event will now be held on Thursday, June 28, 2001 and will end Sunday, July 1, 2001. The main tournament at this event will be a QuakeWorld one-on-one competition.

CPL's Angel Munoz has posted this message on the CPL forums asking people who are interested in a QuakeWorld Duel Tournament. They were planning for a small tournament but there seems to be a larger interest than anticipated.

Word from this .plan update by Graeme Devine is that there is a new Mac release of "Quake Classic" which you can grab here.

This one slipped by earlier this morning but I caught it! A playable demo of LaserArena from TrainWreck Studios has been released. You can grab it from FilePlanet or DemoNews. The game is based on the Quake1 engine (Just like Half-Life2! heh) and looks pretty novel to me. At least worth a look although not really for this crowd. Here's the details & minithumbnail rampage:

- Play Laser Tag on your PC Non-Violent Arena style gameplay
- Play against realistic computer opponents or real people
- Play through 15 amazing levels
- True 3D worlds
- Awesome special effects

Meant to post this the other day. 2015 known for their excellent SIN mission pack has licensed the Quake1 engine (!) and are working on one of them 'main stream' games. Laser Arena.

Quake Done Quick with a Vengeance has been released, a new QdQ demo that completes Quake1 on Nightmare difficulty as fast as humanly possible (12:23 minutes). Always impressive stuff.

The Quake Done Quick guys have announced a sequel to the Quake Done Quick speed run through Quake, Quake done Quick With a Vengeance. They are having a special IRC release party tomorrow on irc.planetquake.com, channel #qdq at 20:00 GMT, which is 3PM Eastern time. Thanks Mickey Lostia.

The guys at Quake Done Quick just never stop. They have released some new demos of running through the Quake1 single player game in an amazing 12:35 in co-op mode. Thanks Rick

Forgot to mention this one earlier, a new version of the classic Quake Arena mod for Quake1 has been released sporting just about anything you could ask for in the mod.

For those of you still playing Classic Quake1 a new mod, The Nehahra Project has just been released. Its a couple of single player episodes (Imagine that) and features new weapons/monsters/items/etc. Thanks BluesNews

EvilAvatar has a pretty cute article looking back at 25 things you can do in Quake1 to entertain yourself. Also on the topic I fixed the rest of the Quake1 pre-qtest screenshots.

Considering the massive interest in those Quake3 beta screenshots, I figured we'll make it nostalgia week here. I dug up these screenshots of the early Quake1 betas, circa 1995! Mmm.. I remember when these came out. Drool! You can also check out the attached document written by John Romero.

The cool Quake lighting can be seen in all these screen shots and a couple sprites and an Alias model as well. We don't have any Alias models working in the game at this point, but we're >this< close to getting them fully implemented with movement, proper light sourcing and animation. Screen q6.gif has our dragon hovering above a bridge above a moat. <snip>

Another .plan update from the big JohnC, saying that the Q1 utilities have now also been released under GPL as part of the Quake1 source release. You can get them from the id FTP.

The Carmack updated his .plan, saying that there's an additional release to the Quake source files on the id FTP, as the original version didn't have the .qc files included.

Blues News is offering a HTML and PDF reprint of the Quake Engine-related chapters of a book former id programmer Michael Abrash wrote, but which went out of print just when the Quake source code was released. If you're working with the source code, or are just interested in general graphics technology you should really give it a read.

Challenge.World now links to no less than 24 projects in progress based using the Quake source code. They also have an overview of what the projects are doing.