Quake Shareware

The people over at Quakeone.com have been working on a project to sharewarize some of the mods available for Quake. This involves making changes so that they only use maps and files from the id Software pak0.pak, the pak file included in shareware Quake. The idea being that somebody could download Quake shareware, install one of the better, modern executables (ProQuake, JoeQuake, etc), connect to a sharewarized server and start playing for free. Hopefully this will attract a few more people to Quake and of course, once they realize how great this ground breaking game is they will buy the full version. A worthy goal. I have agreed to put up a sharewarized Threewave CTF server which is now running at xctf.clan-rum.org. pak0.pak doesn't have all the runes so some substitutions were made, orge head for regen for example. If you don't have Quake and want to give it a try click on the "Game Servers" menu option to the left and look for the shareware CTF server for links to the files you need and instructions. Of course registered Quake will work here too so give it a try sometime.

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