Announcement: QUAKE 0.91 shareware released

Iain Sinclair ((no email))
Sun, 23 Jun 1996 16:56:37 +1000 (EST)

QUAKE, the next-generation first-person game from id software,
makers of the revolutionary game DOOM, is now available as a 0.91
beta release. QUAKE apparently features:

realtime shading, shadowing, simulated soft lighting, full 3d capability
(not just "tilting the camera view", which is a trivial extension of the
DOOM-level engine), ambient sounds, mipmapped sounds, gameplay-based
soundtrack selection, particle systems, internet-capable client/server
networking, arbitrary video resolution support, true 3D texture-mapped
models, gravity, friction, scripting weapon/AI/trap/sound characteristics
in a C-like language, pull-down console for interactive settings, and
above all, engrossing gameplay - a factor missing in the products of
most of id's ostensible competitors.

Chris Holland and I have been developing UTSQuake for a while,
and this will be released when complete. (If you haven't yet
seen SoCSDOOM - http://ftoomsh.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~axolotl/SoCSDOOM/)

quake091.zip is nearly 9MB in size and may be found at the following
locations (sites not marked with * are mirrors, and are not directly
accessed by id).

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake (California, USA) *
ftp://quake.best.com/mirrors/idsoftware/ (California, USA) *
ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.com/pub/companies/id/quake/ (Tennesee, USA) *
ftp://ftp.cssweb.com/pub/games/idstuff/quake/ (Kentuky, USA) *
ftp://sparky.bright.net/quake/ (Ohio, USA) *
ftp://ftp.stomped.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Minesota, USA) *
ftp://www.pht.com/pub/gamehead/id/ (USA) *
ftp://ftp.technomancer.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Virginia, USA) *
ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Arizona, USA) *
ftp://ftp.feist.com/pub/pc/games/quake/ (Kansas, USA) *
ftp://ftp.ameritel.net/idsoftware/quake/ (Maryland, USA) *
ftp://ftp.getquake.com/pub/quake/ (Kansas, USA) *
ftp://quake.osiriscorp.com/pub/idstuff/quake/ (New York, USA) *
ftp://iclass.com/pub/quake/ (Utah, USA) *
ftp://ftp.islandnet.com/mirrors/idsoftware/ (Victoria, Canada)
ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Oregon, USA)
ftp://ftp.ais.net/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (Illinois, USA)
ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/games/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (New York, USA)
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/pc_games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Virginia, USA)

ftp://garfield.sch.bme.hu/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Budapest, Hungary)
ftp://idmirror.netvision.be/idstuff/quake/ (Heverlee, Belgium)
ftp://ftp.flexnet.net/pub/quake/ (England)
ftp://ftp.passagen.se/pub/idstuff/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/games/id/idstuff/quake/ (Cracow, Poland)
ftp://camel.frtk-campus.mipt.ru/pub/idstuss/quake (Moscow, Russia)
ftp://rulhmpc49.LeidenUniv.nl/pub/mirrors/idsoft/ (Leiden, Holland)
ftp://ftp.gig.nl/pub/idstuff/quake/ (Amsterdam, Holland)
ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub2/idstuff/quake/ (Cagliari, Italy)
ftp://ftp.origo.telenor.no/pub/quake/ (Oslo, Norway)
ftp://ftp.spel.postnet.se/pub/games/id/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.bnd.de/pub/quake/ (Berlin, Germany)
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/pc/msdos/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Berlin, Germany)
ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Sweden)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/idstuff/quake/ (Sweden)
ftp://flinux.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/idsoftware/idstuff/quake/ (Austria)
ftp://ftp.calvacom.fr/pub/pc/doom/idstuff/quake/ (France)

ftp://PC/games/DOOM/idstuff/quake/ (Taiwan)

ftp://hyperactive.com.au/pub/games/idstuff/quake/ (Sydney, Australia)
ftp://ftp.powerup.com.au/pub/games/doom/idstuff/quake/ (Australia)

regards,

-- 
 Iain Sinclair  c/- iain@nospam.omnicon.com.au