quake/articles/1996/art-10

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From: dolson@shore.net (Don Olson)

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Subject: Quake is available!

Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:56:17 -0000

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Just a follow up -

The Quake release is certainly a _test_ upload. I haven't been able

to get either of my soundcards working yet, but it's late and I'm

tired.

It's realy a Deathmatch only (net only, no modem) type release, but

I'll work that out tommorrow.

Quake has a cool 3D feeling to it - can't wait to chaulk up my first

frag!

Here's an excert from the readme.txt file:

+----------------------------------------+

| The Official Quake Deathmatch TEST |

| Released Saturday, February 24th, 1996 |

| Copyright (C) 1996 id Software, inc. |

+----------------------------------------+

| Operating Instructions |

| by John Romero |

+----------------------------------------+

Here it is, the first public TEST of Quake's Network, Sound and Video

technology. This is NOT a demo and this is not an ALPHA, either. If

this WAS a demo or an ALPHA, you would see monsters moving around,

have more maps to play, and see the neat new effects we're programming

in right now.

Please keep in mind that this TEST is a DOS-ONLY program -- running it

from Win95 may harm performance. If you run this TEST from Win95, you

MUST have a 16mb RAM system.