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If Quake turning 20 doesn't make you feel old, I don't know what will. Remember the badass 166MHz Pentium Overdrive powered, 24MB RAM, Diamond Monster 3dfx, 3D surround sound system you used to play all night on? Those were the days. :cool:
 
I was only running it on a pentium 133, and I had the Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI, and a AWE 32. I never thought i'd forget the specs of that system, but its all starting to go hazy. I remember the P2 400 with SLI monster 3d II cards for Quake 2 much better!
 
I had a Pentium 100 with 4MB of system memory and a 3D Rage Pro with 4MB of memory if I remember right. Once I upgraded to a Celeron 366 clocked at 550 I was golden! :D That was some time after though; I think Quake II was out by then, I dunno.
 
Ahh the click of my Orchid Righteous 3D. Well the click of any 3DFX card. And Quake, and it's NIN Soundtrack. I can't remember what I ran mine off of. Cyrix maybe.
 
Quake pfffft. Castle Wolfenstein, Conan and Karetica on the Apple II is where it's at. (If you want to feel old)
 
Still one of the best games ever. The quiet nature of the game with the background noises made it creepy. Goes to show it's not all about heavy metal and graphics.
 
I still have my Obsidian Voodoo SLI graphics card. Man it was expensive. That company produced some amazing stuff. Just seeing the thing makes me think it's more powerful than what I have today :)

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Multiplayer is what made the game shine along with 3-D Graphics and sounds that just went along with the atmosphere made you sink into it.
 
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Even though some advertisements said "Pentium required," it still ran OK on an AMD 486 DX4-100 with just software rendering.
 
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Man, I need to do another playthrough of this. It's been far too long!
 
Unabomber said:
Even though some advertisements said "Pentium required," it still ran OK on an AMD 486 DX4-100 with just software rendering.
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When I first played the demo, it was on my brothers PC since my 486 wasn't a DX. Man I was pissed. I don't even remember what I did all summer but slowly managed a Pentium 90 and then Pentium 166, Sound Blaster Awe32, and when I finally got that Voodoo2, holy crap. Those graphics will never fade from my memory.
 
Nukester said:
Still one of the best games ever. The quiet nature of the game with the background noises made it creepy. Goes to show it's not all about heavy metal and graphics.
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I loved it. I've tried a few times to get it to run on modern gear and it's just a hassle IMHO. Or maybe I'm just not doing it right, every time I quit I have to start back at the first level, stuff like that.

ETA: Quake III is what I'm trying to play. I think I have a Q2 disk still, but I really wanted to play Q3.
 
Dullard said:
I loved it. I've tried a few times to get it to run on modern geary and it's just a hassle IMHO. Or maybe I'm just not doing it right, every time I quit I have to start back at the first level, stuff like that.

ETA: Quake III is what I'm trying to play. I think I have a Q2 disk still, but I really wanted to play Q3.
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Have you tried DOSbox? I've had good luck with lots of older games. I mean really old though, like Wizardry VII old. Lol
 
I put so many damn hours into that game! QWTF FTW! I picked up a Rendition v2200 card on clearance after I saw my buddy's Voodoo Graphics.

But Rendition left my Thriller 3D hanging because they never ported vQuake acceleration to Quakeworld.

So instead of beautiful 640x480 with edge AA, I had to settle for aliased OpenGL at 512x384 (to be smooth enough). Still, good times :D
 
I remember the moment I saw this on the shelf at COMP USA or wherever the hell I was at the time. My family just got our first computer (Compaq Presario Pentium 133Mhz, integrated graphics) and I needed something to play on it. I was in 7th grade I believe. Yes I do feel old now. Thanks!
 
First played it on my amd 486-120. it was pretty slow to be honest. My friends P90 ran it way better and another friend has a P133 that ran it pretty well. Much better optimized for Pentiums.

I had a rendition verite 2100 (diamond stealth s220 if I remember right) and an amd K6 200 that ran it pretty well in either vquake or opengl. Quake 2 worked ok in opengl on the rendition, but it was voodoo 2 sli and 1024x768 goodness that really made gaming awesome :). I had a k6-2 300 which performed not bad once the 3dnow extensions were added.
 
I think I was in 7th or so grade too, we had a Compaq with AOL / Descent and then I built my own system, crap I don't even remember what that was. Had a lot of different systems. Loved my US Robotics 14.4 and MajorMUD, back when only like 16 people could join at a time since you had line cards, one per person. Probably a Pentium 133, then a 233, my first 3d card was an s3 virge 2mb add in. That was awesome! Needed it to play the Everquest beta. Man, I have a long list of hardware I've owned...games were so much better back then. Dark Forces, Xwing vs Tie Fighter. Doom, HL and AHL, CS Beta. What happened to those days =(
 
Mugato said:
I think I was in 7th or so grade too, we had a Compaq with AOL / Descent and then I built my own system, crap I don't even remember what that was. Had a lot of different systems. Loved my US Robotics 14.4 and MajorMUD, back when only like 16 people could join at a time since you had line cards, one per person. Probably a Pentium 133, then a 233, my first 3d card was an s3 virge 2mb add in. That was awesome! Needed it to play the Everquest beta. Man, I have a long list of hardware I've owned...games were so much better back then. Dark Forces, Xwing vs Tie Fighter. Doom, HL and AHL, CS Beta. What happened to those days =(
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Budgets happened. Used to only need a couple guys to make an entire game. Now you need hundreds.
Season two of Halt and Catch Fire showed this quite well.
 
I don't remember a red dragon in Quake... o_0

Fun game though, one of the very VERY few that I've played through more than once.
 
quake, qw and qwtf = some seriously high phone bills for me back in the day. embrassed to say it now but i would regulary go hungry so i could meet my quarterly phone bill which was always over £1k.
it was addictive as hell and gaming online specialy during the week day cost alot by the minute. oh and there was also me walking about like zombie at work as i was always sleep deprived some times i would just have 30mins worth of sleep then head for work at 5am. now it would kill me 35 and still addicted to gaming but now i need my sleep.
 
Seeing Quake running on a 3Dfx card-powered machine is on my all-time "Holy shit!" moments list.
I remember thinking the shipping version of the game was pretty "meh" after all of the pizzazz of Duke 3D. However once the game got 3D acceleration and some of the craziest mods of all time - it became a classic.
I still prefer the setting for the original Quake to the sequels. It was dark and unique while the others felt like Doom sequels.
 
Mouselook changed my entire gaming gaming life, as I had previously avoided first person shooters because the controls just sucked for me.

Seeing Quake 3D accelerated just made things perfect :D

I'm getting that same feeling of satisfaction right now paying through Doom.
 
Stoly said:
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Agreed. Remember when every fucking game in existence until Quake 3 stuck to 256x256 textures and 2MB total textures per-scene to they didn't break ancient 4MB Voodoo Graphics cards?

We were stuck with 1997 game specs FOR TWO YEARS because of the split texture/framebuffer memory. Half-Life would have looked MUCH better without that limitation, as Quake 3 can attest.
 
I remember cracking open the brand new retail box of Quake. My system was an old Pentium 100 (overclocked to 133MHz) on an ASUS Triton motherboard with 16MB of EDO RAM and 256kb of pipelined burst cache with a useless Cirrus Logic 2MB video card that was quickly replaced with a Diamond Stealth. The Stealth got old after a while, so just before Quake came out, I replaced it with a Matrox Mystique 4 MB...I was in awe of the buttery goodness that card offered (back when Matrox cards were actually very good performers).

I still miss that computer...it taught me a lot. I remember ripping the Metallica Black Album with the 4X CD-ROM onto the 1.2GB hard drive and having it take up over half of it and wishing there was a way to make the huge WAV files smaller (this was before the MP3 codec was common). Little did I know of what was to come...;)
 
Nukester said:
I still have my Obsidian Voodoo SLI graphics card. Man it was expensive. That company produced some amazing stuff. Just seeing the thing makes me think it's more powerful than what I have today :)

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LoL me to
 
Oh man, Quake (and as some have mentioned QWTF). I remember playing it in software, likely on my Cyrix 200, at least eventually that's what I played it on. Final Fantasy 7 on PC is what finally got me my first 4MB 3D card due to the cut scene crash if you did not have one. Glide and OpenGL then opened my eyes to beautiful transparent water and the lighting effects and explosions. Next step was to finally get off my 24.4 connection (28.8 to 31.2 on a good day) to a cable modem and become a LPB. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the early LPBs on college connections and the like. Had to be fish in a barrel as a sniper. I met so many good people during those times and feel like it's an oft forgotten piece to the birth of esports as we know it today with leagues like Dragon Wars and the IGL.

Also, for years after it was irrelevant: timedemo demo1

Other favorite mods beyond QWTF that I can remember:
Diablo
FvF
Paintball
Reaper Bots
 
Domingo said:
Seeing Quake running on a 3Dfx card-powered machine is on my all-time "Holy shit!" moments list.
I remember thinking the shipping version of the game was pretty "meh" after all of the pizzazz of Duke 3D. However once the game got 3D acceleration and some of the craziest mods of all time - it became a classic.
I still prefer the setting for the original Quake to the sequels. It was dark and unique while the others felt like Doom sequels.
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Damn right they got the atmosphere right. Hasn't been another game like it. It's the quiet that'll scare you. Dim lighting and quiet.
 
NeoNemesis said:
My first card was a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP... I miss those days.
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Mine was the PCI version because when I bought my computer I had no clue what I was doing and didn't buy one with an AGP slot. It still worked pretty well for its day. I thought I was pretty cool with my Voodoo card and my sound blaster audio card.
 
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