Quake Terminus

Wednesday, June 06, 2001

Half-Life Quake1 mod
Megazoid at 03.32 PM

Valve Software's in-house internet mod support team have made a Quake1 mod for Half-Life. They are calling it Deathmatch Classic or DMC for short. Apparently they created DMC for our own entertainment, but John Carmack gave them the go-ahead to release it. It should be out very soon.

For more reading on the subject, pick your exculsive - Shack News or at Gamespy.

Monday, June 04, 2001

Speak like Yoda I can, yes.
Megazoid at 11.29 PM

Yoda's Swamp is up. Check out Net Quake ramblings from the little green man ;)

The Pipeline is a new website for mapmakers & players alike. Map authors can upload screenshots of their work in progress so interested Quakers can check them out. Great idea, definately one for my bookmarks.

Clan QQ are back from their first clan LAN event. Six members managed to make it to the event held this weekend in Tilburg, Netherlands. Check out the LAN pictures :- Here.

Sunday, June 03, 2001

Off Again
Megazoid at 8.05 PM

Quake Terminus is on the move (again). Sorry about this, but I have good reason for moving the site. NetQuake, being the way it is, means that Quake1 sites and files can disappear on a daily basis. Also changes at Fileplanet have prompted my decision to host all files. I understand that they need to make money, but really - who are they trying to kid?

The PR goes something like this :- "The days of guaranteed downloads are at hand. The next version of FilePlanet is now open. This new version of the site includes an advanced system called the FilePlanet Download System [FPDS]. The FPDS detects when one of the FilePlanet mirrors is full and gives you the option to wait a few minutes for an available connection." -Gamespy.

I'm sorry, but what it looks like to me is a way to make people look at advertising for 5 minutes before they download anything. Anyway, you lucky Netquakers wont have to bother waiting, because I'd be hosting everything right here. :)

The move will be tomorrow, but don't worry, there will be auto redirects

Also coming tomorrow, I'm happy to announce that Yoda will be joining us as a weekly columnist. Yoda will have his own little corner of Quake Terminus called Yoda's Swamp. He will be commenting on spectrum of NetQuake issues. He is also hoping to include a weekly Quake Trick demo. Welcome aboard Yoda.

Friday, June 1, 2001

Exclusive Interview
Megazoid at 6.54 PM

Guy Paddock, the driving force behind the Cool OS project was kind enough to do an interview for Quake Terminus. Cool OS is a revolutionary Quake based 3d operating system project. We also have some exclusive pre-alpha screenshots of the project.

Click here for the interview.

Guy is looking for people to join the Cool OS project. The project has positions open in modelling, programming, sound, & 2D texture artwork. Check out the project at the SourceForge Site.

Monday, May 28, 2001

Qview List Update
Megazoid at 9.58 PM

Björn of the QuadQuaker Clan has updated his Qview list of remaining Net Quake servers. It's probably the most up to date Net Quake server list there is. Björn says, "...you'll find 98% of the servers in existence on it." Download Qview (it's similar to Gamespy) and Björn latest Qview list from the file section of the Quad Quakers website :- http://www.quadquakers.com.

Some Quake Terminus news. I have purchased a domain name for the website - www.quaketerminus.com. It's not quite working, but will be up in the next day or two. Also I have applied for hosting with http://www.telefragged.com. I have no idea if they will except, but it sure would be nice ;)

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Free Stuff
Megazoid at 8.49 AM

I'll have more news on my Quake add-on CD later. If you are interested, email me and I'll send you and list of what's going to be on it. It's going to be the cost of a blank CD & postage. Everything on the disk is essentually going to be free. It will contain a lot of commercial material that is not available (for what I can tell) from the internet.

Would you pay $150 for an empty Quake box? Hehe

Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Poll
Megazoid at 10.17 PM

Poll closed. Thank you for voting.

Friday, May 11, 2001

Quake News
Megazoid at 7.23 PM

I have been scanning the Quake sites and ~~stole~~ found some news. A couple of new Quake sourceport projects have come to fruition and produced, some Quake madness.

PanQuake
Has just one feature: a "panorama" mode, allowing you to see 360 degrees around. Works correctly with mlook. Fully configurable. I haven't had a chance to look at this one, but the screenshots look interesting. Another project - FishEyeQuake, tried to do a simliar thing. FishEyeQuake worked but with terrible performance, lets hope these guys have managed to do better.

NPR Quake
NRP (Non-Photo Realistic Rendering) Quake, is a fun sourceport project designed to take the 3d Quake environment and displaying it as if it were hand-drawn. Pencil Wipped from ChiselBrain Software did something very similar last year.

Anaglyph Stereo Quake
Play Quake in 3D with red - blue glasses. Say no more. You are probably going to puke, with or without the glasses. I got a headache just looking at the screenshots.